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ICDCS
2010
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
E-SmallTalker: A Distributed Mobile System for Social Networking in Physical Proximity
—Small talk is an important social lubricant that helps people, especially strangers, initiate conversations and make friends with each other in physical proximity. However, due ...
Zhimin Yang, Boying Zhang, Jiangpeng Dai, Adam C. ...
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Coordination and beyond: social functions of groups in open content production
We report on a study of the English edition of Wikipedia in which we used a mixed methods approach to understand how nested organizational structures called WikiProjects support c...
Andrea Forte, Niki Kittur, Vanessa Larco, Haiyi Zh...
ICIS
2000
15 years 7 months ago
The politics of IS evaluation: a social shaping perspective
A considerable amount of research has already been conducted in the IT/IS evaluation arena, yet rewards remain elusive. This has been variously explained and in this paper we aim ...
Melanie Wilson, Debra Howcroft
DFG
2009
Springer
16 years 29 days ago
Group-Level Analysis and Visualization of Social Networks
Social network analysis investigates the structure of relations amongst social actors. A general approach to detect patterns of interaction and to filter out irregularities is to ...
Michael Baur, Ulrik Brandes, Jürgen Lerner, D...
ATAL
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Operators for propagating trust and their evaluation in social networks
Trust is a crucial basis for interactions among parties in large, open systems. Yet, the scale and dynamism of such systems make it infeasible for each party to have a direct basi...
Chung-Wei Hang, Yonghong Wang, Munindar P. Singh