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ICONFERENCE
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Modeling diverse standpoints in text classification: learning to be human by modeling human values
An annotator’s classification of a text not only tells us something about the intent of the text’s author, it also tells us something about the annotator’s standpoint. To un...
Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Thomas Clay Templeton, Jor...
ICONFERENCE
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Barriers to the adoption and use of personal health record systems
Personal health records (PHR) have enormous potential to improve both documentation of health information and patient care. The adoption of these systems, however, has been relati...
Leslie S. Liu, Patrick C. Shih, Gillian R. Hayes
ICONFERENCE
2011
13 years 5 months ago
Beyond promotion and protection: creators, audiences and common ground in user-generated media
In this paper, we present findings from a qualitative study of producers in a specific creative domain—online digital photography. We used social psychology and linguistic conce...
Eric C. Cook, Stephanie D. Teasley
ICONFERENCE
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Loose strands: searching for evidence of public access ICT impact on development
Telecenters, libraries and internet cafés are often credited as being important venues for making information and communication technologies (ICTs) more widely available for peop...
Araba Sey, Michelle Fellows
ICONFERENCE
2011
13 years 6 months ago
The structure of collaborative problem solving in a virtual math team
To develop a science of small-group interaction in groupware, we need a method for analyzing the structure of computer-mediated discourse. Conversation analysis offers an analysis...
Gerry Stahl
ICONFERENCE
2011
13 years 6 months ago
A vision for information visualization in information science
This paper presents the case for Information Visualization (IV) to be a central, integrated component of study in Information Science. We summarize the current state of IV within ...
Marilyn Ostergren, Jeff Hemsley, Miranda Belarde-L...
ICONFERENCE
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Comparing values and sentiment using Mechanical Turk
Human values can help to explain people’s sentiment toward current events. In this experiment, we compare people’s values with their agreement or disagreement with paragraphs ...
Thomas Clay Templeton, Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Jor...
ICONFERENCE
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Finding social roles in Wikipedia
: The concept of "social role" has long been used in social science describe the intersection of behavioral, meaningful, and structural attributes that emerge regularly i...
Howard T. Welser, Dan Cosley, Gueorgi Kossinets, A...