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KR
2004
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Social Roles and their Descriptions
This paper offers two main contributions. On the one hand, it establishes a general formal framework for developing a foundational ontology of socially constructed entities, in th...
Claudio Masolo, Laure Vieu, Emanuele Bottazzi, Car...
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ECCC
2007
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14 years 9 months ago
Universal Semantic Communication I
Is it possible for two intelligent beings to communicate meaningfully, without any common language or background? This question has interest on its own, but is especially relevant...
Brendan Juba, Madhu Sudan
CANDT
2009
15 years 1 months ago
Toward an analytic framework for understanding and fostering peer-support communities in using and evolving software products
The fundamental challenge for social computing is to contribute to fostering communities in which humans can transcend the limitation of the unaided, individual human mind by help...
Andrew Gorman, Gerhard Fischer
FPLAY
2008
14 years 11 months ago
A framework for games literacy and understanding games
Based on research that studied the challenges and difficulties faced by students taking games studies and game design courses, we propose that, while many students enrolled in gam...
José Pablo Zagal
CSCW
2011
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Sociable killers: understanding social relationships in an online first-person shooter game
Online video games can be seen as medium for the formation and maintenance of social relationships. In this paper, we explore what social relationships mean under the context of o...
Yan Xu, Xiang Cao, Abigail Sellen, Ralf Herbrich, ...