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KDD
2005
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Evaluating similarity measures: a large-scale study in the orkut social network
Online information services have grown too large for users to navigate without the help of automated tools such as collaborative filtering, which makes recommendations to users ba...
Ellen Spertus, Mehran Sahami, Orkut Buyukkokten
AAAI
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Analyzing Reading Behavior by Blog Mining
This paper presents a study of the various aspects of blog reading behavior. The analyzed data are obtained from a Japanese weblog hosting service, Doblog. Four kinds of social ne...
Tadanobu Furukawa, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Yutaka Matsuo...
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 7 months ago
"A little silly and empty-headed": older adults' understandings of social networking sites
This study suggests reasons for the absence of a growing proportion of the population, the so-called baby boomers, from the otherwise highly popular social networking sites. We ex...
Vilma Lehtinen, Jaana Näsänen, Risto Sar...
HCI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Towards Building a Math Discourse Community: Investigating Collaborative Information Behavior
We reported a study that analyzes collaborative information behavior of small groups in an online math discourse community. Taking group as the unit of analysis, we analyzed the so...
Nan Zhou, Gerry Stahl
CSCW
2006
ACM
14 years 6 days ago
A grounded theory of information sharing behavior in a personal learning space
This paper presents a grounded theory of information sharing behavior of the users of a personal learning space. A personal learning space is an environment consisted of weblog, e...
Maryam Najafian Razavi, Lee Iverson