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CHI
2009
ACM
13 years 1 months ago
Auditory priming for upcoming events
Psychologically preparing for upcoming events can be a difficult task, particularly when switching social contexts, e.g., from office work to a family event. To help with such tra...
Timothy Sohn, Leila Takayama, Dean Eckles, Rafael ...
SOCINFO
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Social Email: A Framework and Application for More Socially-Aware Communications
As online social networks (OSN) attempt to mimic real life social networks, we have made progress towards using OSNs to provide us with data to allow for richer and more robust onl...
Thomas Tran, Jeff Rowe, Shyhtsun Felix Wu
COMSWARE
2008
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Extracting dense communities from telecom call graphs
Social networks refer to structures made of nodes that represent people or other entities embedded in a social context, and whose edges represent interaction between entities. Typi...
Vinayaka Pandit, Natwar Modani, Sougata Mukherjea,...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Leveraging social context for searching social media
The ability to utilize and benefit from today's explosion of social media sites depends on providing tools that allow users to productively participate. In order to participa...
Marc Smith, Vladimir Barash, Lise Getoor, Hady Wir...
GROUP
2007
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Unpacking the social dimension of external interruptions
The paper systematically explores the social dimension of external interruptions of human activities. Interruptions and interruption handling are key issues in human-computer inte...
Rikard Harr, Victor Kaptelinin
DALT
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Lightweight Coordination Calculus for Agent Systems
The concept of a social norm is used in multi-agent systems to specify behaviours required of agents interacting in a given social context. We describe a method for specifying soci...
David Robertson
NORDICHI
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A new role for anthropology?: rewriting "context" and "analysis" in HCI research
In this paper we want to reconsider the role anthropology (both its theory and methods) can play within HCI research. One of the areas anthropologists can contribute to here is to...
Minna Räsänen, James M. Nyce
MM
2006
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Extraction of social context and application to personal multimedia exploration
Personal media collections are often viewed and managed along the social dimension, the places we spend time at and the people we see, thus tools for extracting and using this inf...
Brett Adams, Dinh Q. Phung, Svetha Venkatesh
ACMDIS
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
An empirical framework for designing social products
Designers generally agree that understanding the context of use is important in designing products. However, technologically advanced products such as personal robots engender com...
Bilge Mutlu
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
The Social Context of Software Maintenance
Software maintenance is a highly collaborative activity whose social context is rarely addressed. To explore this context, we conducted an ethnographic study at a large technology...
Jonathan Sillito, Eleanor Wynn