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ACCV
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Social Interactive Human Video Synthesis
In this paper, we propose a computational model for social interaction between three people in a conversation, and demonstrate results using human video motion synthesis. We utilis...
Dumebi Okwechime, Eng-Jon Ong, Andrew Gilbert, Ric...
AROBOTS
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Exploiting social partners in robot learning
Social learning in robotics has largely focused on imitation learning. Here we take a broader view and are interested in the multifaceted ways that a social partner can influence t...
Maya Cakmak, Nicholas DePalma, Rosa I. Arriaga, An...
FIRSTMONDAY
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
The social environment model: Small heroes and the evolution of human society
Traditional "realistic" theories of social action, whether based on the individual gain heuristics of capitalism or the collective class struggles of communism, cannot e...
Brian Whitworth, Alex P. Whitworth
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Size Matters: Variation in Personal Network Size, Personality and Effect on Information Transmission
In the last decade, there has been a massive increase in network research across both the social and physical sciences. In Physics and Mathematics, there have been extensive work o...
Yu-En Lu, Sam Roberts, Pietro Liò, Robin Du...
CONEXT
2009
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Lockr: better privacy for social networks
Today's online social networking (OSN) sites do little to protect the privacy of their users' social networking information. Given the highly sensitive nature of the inf...
Amin Tootoonchian, Stefan Saroiu, Yashar Ganjali, ...
BIS
2009
146views Business» more  BIS 2009»
13 years 7 months ago
Computer Support for Agile Human-to-Human Interactions with Social Protocols
Despite many works in CSCW, groupware, workflow systems and social networks, computer support for human-to-human interactions is still insufficient, especially support for agility,...
Willy Picard
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Learning to Predict Ad Clicks Based on Boosted Collaborative Filtering
This paper addresses the topic of social advertising, which refers to the allocation of ads based on individual user social information and behaviors. As social network services (e...
Teng-Kai Fan, Chia-Hui Chang
SAB
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Autonomous Development of Social Referencing Skills
Abstract. In this work, we are interested in understanding how emotional interactions with a social partner can bootstrap increasingly complex behaviors such as social referencing....
Sofiane Boucenna, Philippe Gaussier, Laurence Hafe...
PIMRC
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Social networking of the Smart Home
Abstract--Social networking on the Web has become an integral part of our lives. Merging of computing with physical things enabled the conversion of everyday objects into informati...
Andreas Kamilaris, Andreas Pitsillides
IMC
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Measuring the mixing time of social graphs
Social networks provide interesting algorithmic properties that can be used to bootstrap the security of distributed systems. For example, it is widely believed that social networ...
Abedelaziz Mohaisen, Aaram Yun, Yongdae Kim