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ICWSM
2010
14 years 11 months ago
StepGreen.org: Increasing Energy Saving Behaviors via Social Networks
Decades of research have explored factors that can influence green behavior. However, much less is known about the ways in which technology in general, and social technologies in ...
Jennifer Mankoff, Susan R. Fussell, Tawanna Dillah...
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Personalized social search based on the user's social network
This work investigates personalized social search based on the user’s social relations – search results are re-ranked according to their relations with individuals in the user...
David Carmel, Naama Zwerdling, Ido Guy, Shila Ofek...
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WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Finding the right facts in the crowd: factoid question answering over social media
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyua...
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 4 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...
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Exploring mobile technologies for the urban homeless
My research examines the practical and social impact of technology on the urban homeless. To accomplish this, I have conducted interviews with the homeless to understand how techn...
Christopher A. Le Dantec