Previous research in Kyrgyzstan has demonstrated the importance of close social networks as avenues for gathering and sharing information, assistance and goods in the country. How...
One of the most challenging problems facing builders and facilitators of community networks is to create and sustain social engagement among members. In this paper, we investigate...
Social annotation systems such as SparTag.us and del.icio.us have been designed to encourage individual reading and marking behaviors that, when shared, accumulate to build collect...
Les Nelson, Gregorio Convertino, Peter Pirolli, Li...
This paper presents a multimodal social networking system aimed at sharing geographic information among proximate users. The system provides users with a traditional web-based int...
Stan Kurkovsky, David Strimple, Eric Nuzzi, Kerry ...
This paper presents a robot search task (social tag) that uses social interaction, in the form of asking for help, as an integral component of task completion. We define socially...