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CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Presenting diverse political opinions: how and how much
Is a polarized society inevitable, where people choose to be exposed to only political news and commentary that reinforces their existing viewpoints? We examine the relationship b...
Sean A. Munson, Paul Resnick
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Blogging at work and the corporate attention economy
The attention economy motivates participation in peerproduced sites on the Web like YouTube and Wikipedia. However, this economy appears to break down at work. We studied a large ...
Sarita Yardi, Scott A. Golder, Michael J. Brzozows...
MUM
2009
ACM
144views Multimedia» more  MUM 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
UbiRockMachine: a multimodal music voting service for shared urban spaces
In this paper we suggest a conceptual architecture for music systems, designed to shift the control over a shared urban space to the users themselves, and also to encourage social...
Hannu Kukka, Rodolfo Patino, Timo Ojala
COMPLEX
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
A Preliminary Study on the Effects of Fear Factors in Disease Propagation
Upon an outbreak of a dangerous infectious disease, people generally tend to reduce their contacts with others in fear of getting infected. Such typical actions apparently help to ...
Yubo Wang, Jie Hu, Gaoxi Xiao, Limsoon Wong, Stefa...
JCDL
2009
ACM
121views Education» more  JCDL 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
Improving historical research by linking digital library information to a global genealogical database
Journals, letters, and other writings are of great value to historians and those who research their own family history; however, it can be difficult to find writings by specific...
Douglas J. Kennard, William B. Lund, Bryan S. Mors...