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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Social capital on facebook: differentiating uses and users
Though social network site use is often treated as a monolithic activity, in which all time is equally “social” and its impact the same for all users, we examine how Facebook ...
Moira Burke, Robert Kraut, Cameron Marlow
RECSYS
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Regret-based optimal recommendation sets in conversational recommender systems
Current conversational recommender systems are unable to offer guarantees on the quality of their recommendations due to a lack of principled user utility models. We develop an ap...
Paolo Viappiani, Craig Boutilier
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Tuning Skype's Redundancy Control Algorithm for User Satisfaction
—Determining how to transport delay-sensitive voice data has long been a problem in multimedia networking. The difficulty arises because voice and best-effort data are different...
Te-Yuan Huang, Kuan-Ta Chen, Polly Huang
CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
The role of choice and customization on users' interaction with embodied conversational agents: effects on perception and perfor
We performed an empirical study exploring people's interactions with an embodied conversational agent (ECA) while performing two tasks. Conditions varied with respect to 1) w...
Jun Xiao, John T. Stasko, Richard Catrambone
VR
2007
IEEE
151views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2007»
16 years 26 days ago
The Influence of Visual Appearance of User's Avatar on the Manipulation of Objects in Virtual Environments
This paper describes an experiment conducted to study the influence of visual appearance of user’s avatar (or 3D cursor) on the manipulation of virtual objects in Virtual Enviro...
Abdelmajid Kadri, Anatole Lécuyer, Jean-Mar...