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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
The impact of network structure on breaking ties in online social networks: unfollowing on twitter
We investigate the breaking of ties between individuals in the online social network of Twitter, a hugely popular social media service. Building on sociology concepts such as stre...
Funda Kivran-Swaine, Priya Govindan, Mor Naaman
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Human computation: a survey and taxonomy of a growing field
The rapid growth of human computation within research and industry has produced many novel ideas aimed at organizing web users to do great things. However, the growth is not adequ...
Alexander J. Quinn, Benjamin B. Bederson
CORR
2011
Springer
151views Education» more  CORR 2011»
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A New Representation Theorem for Many-valued Modal Logics
We propose a new definition of the representation theorem for many-valued logics, with modal operators as well, and define the stronger relationship between algebraic models of ...
Zoran Majkic
CSCW
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Understanding technology choices and values through social class
This ethnographic study of 22 diverse families in the San Francisco Bay Area explores parents’ attitudes about their children’s use of technology. We found that parents from d...
Morgan G. Ames, Janet Go, Joseph Kaye, Mirjana Spa...
EDBT
2011
ACM
225views Database» more  EDBT 2011»
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On (not) indexing quadratic form distance by metric access methods
The quadratic form distance (QFD) has been utilized as an effective similarity function in multimedia retrieval, in particular, when a histogram representation of objects is used...
Tomás Skopal, Tomás Bartos, Jakub Lo...