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CSCW
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Using social psychology to motivate contributions to online communities
Under-contribution is a problem for many online communities. Social psychology theories of social loafing and goal-setting can provide mid-level design principles to address this ...
Gerard Beenen, Kimberly S. Ling, Xiaoqing Wang, Kl...
PERVASIVE
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Social Disclosure of Place: From Location Technology to Communication Practices
Communication of one’s location as part of a social discourse is common practice, and we use a variety of technologies to satisfy this need. This practice suggests a potentially ...
Ian E. Smith, Sunny Consolvo, Anthony LaMarca, Jef...
ATAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Argument-based negotiation in a social context
Argumentation-based negotiation (ABN) provides agents with an effective means to resolve conflicts within a multi-agent society. However, to engage in such argumentative encounter...
Nishan C. Karunatillake, Nicholas R. Jennings, Iya...
MM
2006
ACM
184views Multimedia» more  MM 2006»
13 years 10 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
HICSS
2006
IEEE
174views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
CrystalChat: Visualizing Personal Chat History
As more people take part in online conversations, awareness of the varying conversational styles and social mores afforded by different software is growing. However, this awarenes...
Annie Tat, M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale
PRIMA
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Supporting Requirements Analysis in Tropos: A Planning-Based Approach
Abstract. Software systems are becoming more and more part of human life influencing organizational and social activities. This introduces the need of considering the design of a ...
Volha Bryl, Paolo Giorgini, John Mylopoulos
ISI
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
SIGHTS: A Software System for Finding Coalitions and Leaders in a Social Network
Abstract—We present an extended version of a software system SIGHTS1 (Statistical Identification of Groups Hidden in Time and Space), which can be used for the discovery, analys...
Jeffrey Baumes, Mark K. Goldberg, Mykola Hayvanovy...
GECCO
2007
Springer
142views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Simulations of egoistic and altruistic behaviors using the vidya multiagent system platform
This paper investigates the impacts of individual egoistic and altruistic behaviors in a virtual society built upon the Vidya game, used here as the social simulation and Multiage...
Marcelo Souza Pita, Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto
BPM
2007
Springer
144views Business» more  BPM 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Managing Socio-technical Interactions in Healthcare Systems
Abstract. We put forward an architectural framework that promotes the externalisation of the social dimension that arises in software-intensive systems which, like in healthcare, e...
Osama El-Hassan, José Luiz Fiadeiro, Reiko ...
ATAL
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Coordination and Sociability for Intelligent Virtual Agents
This paper presents a multi-agent framework designed to simulate synthetic humans that properly balance task oriented and social behaviors. The work presented in this paper focuses...
Francisco Grimaldo, Miguel Lozano, Fernando Barber