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HUC
2011
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The social fMRI: measuring, understanding, and designing social mechanisms in the real world
A key challenge of data-driven social science is the gathering of high quality multi-dimensional datasets. A second challenge relates to design and execution of structured experim...
Nadav Aharony, Wei Pan, Cory Ip, Inas Khayal, Alex...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Creek watch: pairing usefulness and usability for successful citizen science
Citizen science projects can collect a wealth of scientific data, but that data is only helpful if it is actually used. While previous citizen science research has mostly focused ...
Sunyoung Kim, Christine Robson, Thomas Zimmerman, ...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
116views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Socially relevant computing
In this paper, we introduce socially relevant computing as a new way to reinvigorate interest in computer science. Socially relevant computing centers on the use of computation to...
Michael Buckley, John Nordlinger, Devika Subramani...
HICSS
2009
IEEE
155views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Explaining the Continuous Use of Social Virtual Worlds: An Applied Theory of Planned Behavior Approach
Social virtual worlds (SVWs) have become increasingly popular spaces for social interaction. To be attractive to engage with, maintaining a sufficient base of active users is a si...
Jani Merikivi, Matti Mäntymäki
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JASSS
2002
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14 years 9 months ago
"Methodological Implications of Complex Systems Approaches to Sociality": Some Further Remarks
In a paper published in JASSS, Chris Goldspink discusses the methodological implications of complex systems approaches to the modeling of social systems. Like others before him Go...
Kurt A. Richardson