The psycholinguistic theory of communication accommodation accounts for the general observation that participants in conversations tend to converge to one another’s communicativ...
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Michael Gamon, S...
In this paper we introduce Social VPNs, a novel system architecture which leverages existing social networking infrastructures to enable ad-hoc VPNs which are self-configuring, s...
Renato J. O. Figueiredo, P. Oscar Boykin, Pierre S...
In social tagging sites, users are provided easy ways to create social networks, to post and share items like bookmarks, videos, photos and articles, along with comments and tags. ...
At the intersection of tele-robotics, computer networking, and human social interaction we have chosen to explore an area we identifyas personal tele-embodiment. At the core of th...
This dissertation research explores the invocation of emotional support from friends and family for parents who have a baby in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, through the use of t...