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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
I'm the mayor of my house: examining why people use foursquare - a social-driven location sharing application
There have been many location sharing systems developed over the past two decades, and only recently have they started to be adopted by consumers. In this paper, we present the re...
Janne Lindqvist, Justin Cranshaw, Jason Wiese, Jas...
IJWBC
2011
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13 years 2 months ago
Personal profiles: enhancing social interaction in learning networks
Nowadays, we witness a surge of online profiling sites; in them people make their profile available to others with the intention to share it and get in touch with others, find old ...
Adriana J. Berlanga, Marlies Bitter-Rijpkema, Fran...
CSCW
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A face(book) in the crowd: social Searching vs. social browsing
Large numbers of college students have become avid Facebook users in a short period of time. In this paper, we explore whether these students are using Facebook to find new people...
Cliff Lampe, Nicole Ellison, Charles Steinfield
ECRA
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Inferring preference correlations from social networks
Identifying consumer preferences is a key challenge in customizing electronic commerce sites to individual users. The increasing availability of online social networks provides on...
Tad Hogg
CHI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A familiar face(book): profile elements as signals in an online social network
Using data from a popular online social network site, this paper explores the relationship between profile structure (namely, which fields are completed) and number of friends, gi...
Cliff Lampe, Nicole Ellison, Charles Steinfield