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CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Virtually There: Exploring Proximity and Homophily in a Virtual World
— Virtual space eliminates the constraints of physical distances on communication and interaction. In this study, we examine the impact of offline proximity and homophily of play...
Yun Huang, Cuihua Shen, Dmitri Williams, Noshir S....
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Ambulation: A Tool for Monitoring Mobility Patterns over Time Using Mobile Phones
An important tool for evaluating the health of patients who suffer from mobility-affecting chronic diseases such as MS, Parkinson’s, and Muscular Dystrophy is assessment of how ...
Jason Ryder, Brent Longstaff, Sasank Reddy, Debora...
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Socio-semantic Dynamics in a Blog Network
—The blogosphere can be construed as a knowledge network made of bloggers who are interacting through a social network to share, exchange or produce information. We claim that th...
Jean-Philippe Cointet, Camille Roth
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Automated Murmurs: The Social Mobile Tourist Application
—The popularity of mobile devices and their increased computing power has given rise to surge in mobile computing technologies. Users are increasingly turning to mobile devices f...
Jill Freyne, Adam J. Brennan, Barry Smyth, Daragh ...
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Validation of Sociocultural Models and Meta-Models via Serious Games
– The role of serious games in validating computational sociocultural models is described. To accomplish this, we show the role of a cognitive engine in generating behaviors for ...
K. Brock Stitts, Colleen L. Phillips, Norman D. Ge...
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
The Altruistic Searcher
—Recently researchers have argued that the prevailing view of Web search, as a solitary activity, is flawed: that, in reality, Web search can be an inherently collaborative task...
Barry Smyth, Maurice Coyle, Peter Briggs
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Privacy in Online Social Networking at Workplace
—Employees using social network sites (SNS) at workplace is a fact. As companies are further embracing social media, how if at all does this practice affect the work dynamics? Wh...
Yang Wang 0005, Alfred Kobsa
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Private Buddy Search: Enabling Private Spatial Queries in Social Networks
—With the abundance of location-aware portable devices such as cellphones and PDAs, a new emerging application is to use this pervasive computing platform to learn about the wher...
Ali Khoshgozaran, Cyrus Shahabi
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Analysis of a Location-Based Social Network
—Location-based Social Networks (LSNs) allow users to see where their friends are, to search location-tagged content within their social graph, and to meet others nearby. The rec...
Nan Li, Guanling Chen
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Reinforcement Learning of Listener Response for Mood Classification of Audio
This paper describes a method of applying a reinforcement learning artificial intelligence to categorize audio files by mood based on listener response during a performance. The s...
Jack Stockholm, Philippe Pasquier