Sciweavers

1208 search results - page 107 / 242
» Information technology as social phenomenon
Sort
View
ICALT
2009
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
A Semantic Social Network Service for Educating Saudi Breast Cancer Patients
Social networking services are presented as enablers in health and health care. This paper presents the idea of building Social Network system for educating Breast Cancer Patients...
Alaa M. Al-Abad, Basma A. Al-Sahail, Batool A. Al-...
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
The network in the garden: an empirical analysis of social media in rural life
History repeatedly demonstrates that rural communities have unique technological needs. Yet, we know little about how rural communities use modern technologies, so we lack knowled...
Eric Gilbert, Karrie Karahalios, Christian Sandvig
WWW
2011
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Estimating sizes of social networks via biased sampling
Online social networks have become very popular in recent years and their number of users is already measured in many hundreds of millions. For various commercial and sociological...
Liran Katzir, Edo Liberty, Oren Somekh
111
Voted
WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Measurement-calibrated graph models for social network experiments
Access to realistic, complex graph datasets is critical to research on social networking systems and applications. Simulations on graph data provide critical evaluation of new sys...
Alessandra Sala, Lili Cao, Christo Wilson, Robert ...
116
Voted
WCNC
2010
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Socially-Aware Publish/Subscribe System for Human Networks
Abstract—The development of modern communication technologies fosters human networks (HUNETs)—an information dissemination platform comprised of human-carried wirelessenabled d...
Yaxiong Zhao, Jie Wu