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CSCW
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Emergent networks, locus of control, and the pursuit of social capital
In this paper we examine the relationship between emergent social network characteristics in a computer-supported collaborative learning course and locus of control. An emergent c...
Michael Stefanone, Jeffrey T. Hancock, Geri Gay, A...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Building community-centric information exploration applications on social content sites
Social content sites [4], which integrate traditional content sites with social networking features, have recently emerged as an exciting new trend on the Web. Users on those site...
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Jian Huang, Cong Yu
WIMOB
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
An Ad Hoc Network Infrastructure: Communication and Information Sharing for Emergency Response
— During an emergency response, access to a reliable communication infrastructure is required to exchange accurate information in a timely manner. Various communication technolog...
Raheleh B. Dilmaghani, Ramesh R. Rao
UIC
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Extracting Social and Community Intelligence from Digital Footprints: An Emerging Research Area
As a result of the recent explosion of sensor-equipped mobile phone market, the phenomenal growth of Internet and social network users, and the large deployment of sensor network i...
Daqing Zhang, Bin Guo, Bin Li, Zhiwen Yu
MMAS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Designing Emergency Guidance in a Social Interaction Platform
Future computing systems interact with a large number of users moving around buildings and streets. In this paper, we propose an example of such systems and how to evaluate ubicomp...
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Toru Ishida