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CSCW
2004
ACM
16 years 1 days ago
BusyBody: creating and fielding personalized models of the cost of interruption
Interest has been growing in opportunities to build and deploy statistical models that can infer a computer user’s current interruptability from computer activity and relevant c...
Eric Horvitz, Paul Koch, Johnson Apacible
MABS
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
From KISS to KIDS - An 'Anti-simplistic' Modelling Approach
A new approach is suggested under the slogan “Keep it Descriptive Stupid” (KIDS) that encapsulates a trend in increasingly descriptive agentbased social simulation. The KIDS ap...
Bruce Edmonds, Scott Moss
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WSPI
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Practices, Systems, and Context Working as Core Concepts in Modeling Socio-Technical Systems
This work draws on the cultural historical activity-theory and the theory of social systems to model socio-technical systems. The concepts of practice, system, and context work as ...
Heidrun Allert, Christoph Richter
ASUNAM
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Models of Communication Dynamics for Simulation of Information Diffusion
—We study information diffusion in real-life and synthetic dynamic networks, using well known threshold and cascade models of diffusion. Our test-bed is the communication network...
Konstantin Mertsalov, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Mark K....
IVA
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
A Probabilistic Model of Motor Resonance for Embodied Gesture Perception
Abstract. Basic communication and coordination mechanisms of human social interaction are assumed to be mediated by perception-action links. These links ground the observation and ...
Amir Sadeghipour, Stefan Kopp