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HUC
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
The commodification of location: dynamics of power in location-based systems
Location-based ubiquitous computing systems are entering mainstream society and becoming familiar parts of everyday life. However, the settings in which they are deployed are alre...
Irina Shklovski, Janet Vertesi, Emily Troshynski, ...
WEBI
2010
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Ranking Approaches for Microblog Search
Ranking microblogs, such as tweets, as search results for a query is challenging, among other things because of the sheer amount of microblogs that are being generated in real time...
Rinkesh Nagmoti, Ankur Teredesai, Martine De Cock
CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 9 days ago
Testing the media equation with children
Designers of children's technology are often more interested in user motivation than those who design systems for adults. Since children's technology often has aims such...
Sonia Chiasson, Carl Gutwin
CSCW
2002
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Instant messaging in teen life
Instant Messaging (IM) is being widely adopted by teenagers. In a study of 16 teenage IM users, we explore IM as an emerging feature of teen life, focusing our questions on its su...
Rebecca E. Grinter, Leysia Palen
KDD
2012
ACM
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13 years 2 months ago
Learning from crowds in the presence of schools of thought
Crowdsourcing has recently become popular among machine learning researchers and social scientists as an effective way to collect large-scale experimental data from distributed w...
Yuandong Tian, Jun Zhu