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CACM
2002
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Digital city Kyoto
Abstract. We have developed a digital city for Kyoto, the old capital and cultural center of Japan, as a social information infrastructure for urban everyday life including shoppin...
Toru Ishida
CGA
2004
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Browsers to Support Awareness and Social Interaction
feel abstract and informational rather than inviting for social interaction. Consequently, newcomers and occasional visitors to such sites cannot quickly assess who the participant...
Alison Lee, Andreas Girgensohn, Jun Zhang
WIAS
2008
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Delegations guided by trust and autonomy
This paper explores delegation decisions predicated on models of trust and autonomy among agents. In socially rich environments, trust and autonomy of artificial agents are key att...
Henry Hexmoor, Shahram Rahimi, Rachil Chandran
IMCS
2007
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On the imbalance of the security problem space and its expected consequences
Purpose – This paper aims to report on the results of an analysis of the computer security problem space, to suggest the areas with highest potential for making progress in the ...
Konstantin Beznosov, Olga Beznosova
CORR
2007
Springer
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Social Media as Windows on the Social Life of the Mind
This is a programmatic paper, marking out two directions in which the study of social media can contribute to broader problems of social science: understanding cultural evolution ...
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
CORR
2007
Springer
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Social Information Processing in Social News Aggregation
The rise of social media sites — blogs, wikis, and Digg — underscores the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are collaboratively creating, eval...
Kristina Lerman
IJMMS
2008
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Avatars in social media: Balancing accuracy, playfulness and embodied messages
This paper examines how users negotiate their self-presentation via an avatar used in social media. Twenty participants customised an avatar while thinking aloud. An analysis of t...
Asimina Vasalou, Adam N. Joinson, Tanja Bänzi...
IJFIPM
2008
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Dynamic intimate contact social networks and epidemic interventions
Abstract: Sexually transmitted diseases and infections are, by definition, transferred among intimate social settings. Although the circumstances under which these social settings ...
Courtney Corley, Armin R. Mikler, Diane J. Cook, K...
CORR
2006
Springer
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Social Networks and Social Information Filtering on Digg
The new social media sites--blogs, wikis, Flickr and Digg, among others--underscore the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively creating, e...
Kristina Lerman
DEBU
2008
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Social SQL: Tools for Exploring Social Databases
Social media are constructed from the collective contributions of potentially millions of individuals and present an increasingly common and large scale form of database. As these...
Marc A. Smith, Vladimir Barash