Psychologically preparing for upcoming events can be a difficult task, particularly when switching social contexts, e.g., from office work to a family event. To help with such tra...
Timothy Sohn, Leila Takayama, Dean Eckles, Rafael ...
As online social networks (OSN) attempt to mimic real life social networks, we have made progress towards using OSNs to provide us with data to allow for richer and more robust onl...
Social networks refer to structures made of nodes that represent people or other entities embedded in a social context, and whose edges represent interaction between entities. Typi...
The ability to utilize and benefit from today's explosion of social media sites depends on providing tools that allow users to productively participate. In order to participa...
Marc Smith, Vladimir Barash, Lise Getoor, Hady Wir...
The paper systematically explores the social dimension of external interruptions of human activities. Interruptions and interruption handling are key issues in human-computer inte...
The concept of a social norm is used in multi-agent systems to specify behaviours required of agents interacting in a given social context. We describe a method for specifying soci...
In this paper we want to reconsider the role anthropology (both its theory and methods) can play within HCI research. One of the areas anthropologists can contribute to here is to...
Personal media collections are often viewed and managed along the social dimension, the places we spend time at and the people we see, thus tools for extracting and using this inf...
Designers generally agree that understanding the context of use is important in designing products. However, technologically advanced products such as personal robots engender com...
Software maintenance is a highly collaborative activity whose social context is rarely addressed. To explore this context, we conducted an ethnographic study at a large technology...