While networking technology facilitates the use of online services such as real-time instant messaging and anywhere-anytime multiplayer gaming, societal and ethical issues can inf...
—Small talk is an important social lubricant that helps people, especially strangers, initiate conversations and make friends with each other in physical proximity. However, due ...
Zhimin Yang, Boying Zhang, Jiangpeng Dai, Adam C. ...
In this paper we report on our work to enable “laid-back” social interactions using television as a primary interaction medium and mobile devices that participate as a seconda...
Kris Luyten, Kristof Thys, Steven Huypens, Karin C...
Social networks are of interest to researchers in part because they are thought to mediate the flow of information in communities and organizations. Here we study the temporal dyn...
Gueorgi Kossinets, Jon M. Kleinberg, Duncan J. Wat...
During social interactions in a community, there are often sub-communities that behave in opposite manner. These antagonistic sub-communities could represent groups of people with ...