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SBP
2011
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
A Longitudinal View of the Relationship Between Social Marginalization and Obesity
We use 3 Waves of the Add Health data collected between 1994 and 2002 to conduct a longitudinal study of the relationship between social marginalization and the weight status of ad...
Andrea Apolloni, Achla Marathe, Zhengzheng Pan
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The impact of network structure on breaking ties in online social networks: unfollowing on twitter
We investigate the breaking of ties between individuals in the online social network of Twitter, a hugely popular social media service. Building on sociology concepts such as stre...
Funda Kivran-Swaine, Priya Govindan, Mor Naaman
SBP
2012
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Lessons Learned in Using Social Media for Disaster Relief - ASU Crisis Response Game
In disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti and the tsunami in Japan, people used social media to ask for help or report injuries. The popularity, efficiency, and ease of use of s...
Mohammad Ali Abbasi, Shamanth Kumar, Jose Augusto ...
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Exploiting Social Information in Grounded Language Learning via Grammatical Reduction
This paper uses an unsupervised model of grounded language acquisition to study the role that social cues play in language acquisition. The input to the model consists of (orthogr...
Mark Johnson, Katherine Demuth, Michael C. Frank
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Tableau machine: an alien presence in the home
Research in Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing has put computational devices into many social settings while leaving intact much of the "task support and informati...
Mario Romero, Zachary Pousman, Michael Mateas