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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Online social network"”.
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Online social network sensors for influenza outbreaks
… strong correlations between postings on the online social network Twitter where users complain of influenza-like symptoms, and clinical data on actual influenza rates. In addition, previous research has shown that more popular individuals in a real-life social network are infected with …
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Vulnerability in online social network profiles. A Framework for Measuring Consequences of Information Disclosure in Online Social Networks.
The increase in online social network (OSN) usage has led to personal details known as attributes being readily displayed in OSN profiles. This can lead to the profile owners being vulnerable to privacy and social engineering attacks which include identity theft, stalking and re identification by …
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Vulnerability in online social network profiles. A Framework for Measuring Consequences of Information Disclosure in Online Social Networks
The increase in online social network (OSN) usage has led to personal details known as attributes being readily displayed in OSN profiles. This can lead to the profile owners being vulnerable to privacy and social engineering attacks which include identity theft, stalking and re identification by …
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Seamless interoperability and data portability in the social web for facilitating an open and heterogeneous online social network federation
Online Social Networks (OSN) have become an integral part of our everyday lives. We express ourselves, create and collect content such as images or videos, share content and information with our friends and colleagues, exchange messages, or keep track of what's happening in the world. Yet, despite …
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Effect of an Online Social Network on Perceived Social Support and Self-Efficacy to Adopt and Maintain Health Behaviors
… this pilot study was to examine the effect of an online social network used as an adjunct to a behavioral weight loss intervention on participants’ perceived social support and perceived self-efficacy using constructs of Social Cognitive Theory as a basis for website development.</p> <p>Methods: …
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Teachers' Perceptions of an Online Social Network as an Instructional Platform: The Impact of an Edmodo-Based Professional Development Workshop
… study examined one particular technology, the Online Social Network (OSN), using Edmodo in light of how it is perceived as an instructional platform. Additionally, whether the OSN supports a professional learning community was investigated, and the influence of this type of professional …
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SocialRank : ranking users and information in online social networks
… is to explore the design and implementation of SocialRank. SocialRank is a personalized ranking algorithm that provides--for each user--ratings for people in his online social network. Subsequently, these ratings are used to rank incoming information received by the user from those in his social …
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Open Design and medical products : An Open Medical Products methodology.
… dubbed AIR involved the creation of a bespoke online social network, recruitment of people living with cystic fibrosis, and the facilitation of collaborative design work resulting in prototype medical devices based on the lived experience of the participants.The work involves research into …
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Open design and medical products
… dubbed AIR involved the creation of a bespoke online social network, recruitment of people living with cystic fibrosis, and the facilitation of collaborative design work resulting in prototype medical devices based on the lived experience of the participants. The work involves research into …
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The Relationship Between Interaction Patterns on an Online Idea Generation Community and the Implementation of Ideas
<p>The purpose of the study was to investigate a socially-networked online idea-generation community. Specifically, the study examined the specific interaction patterns on an online social network and the emergence of ideas. Using social-network analysis, the interaction among the network …
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Partitioning social networks for data locality on a memory budget
"Typical queries on online social network (OSN) applications are complex and require ""feeds"" to be compiled with timely information about many friends and friends' friends, which may be stored across many servers. Partitioning the OSN social graph in such a way as to promote data locality, i.e. …
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Using an Internet Learning Profile to create customized plans
… arts literacy scores) are immersed in the use of online social networking, role play/interactive gaming online, blogs, discussion boards, online classes, video websites, search engines, paint or animation applications, etc. I used a Multiple Intelligences Scale (Chislett & Chapman, 2005) in order …
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Social networking: security, privacy, and applications
Online social networks have become ubiquitous and changed the way that users interact online. There has been an enormous growth in the usage of online social networking in the past few years as users share a variety of information including personal profiles, pictures, and messages to socialize …
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Diffusion, Infection and Social (Information) Network Database
… with the appearance and proliferation of online social network services, social (information) network analysis and mining techniques have become closely intertwined with the analysis of diffusive and infection phenomena. In this dissertation, we suggest various analysis and mining …
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Multimodal Person Recognition using Social Behavioral Biometric
… information such as visual cues, cognitive and social interactions, contextual and spatio-temporal data. Similarly to a human brain, social behavioral cues can aid the reliable decision-making of an automated biometric system. Being an integral part of human behavior, social interactions are …
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On information filtering in social sensing
For decades, from the invention of Sensor Networks, people envisioned a global sensing platform with millions of sensors deployed globally. The platform has finally become real recently with the advent of multiple online social network services where humans act as sensors and the social networks …
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Platform failures : lessons for strategic management
… that connect two or more groups of users. From online social networking to electronic retail, we find that multi-sided platforms are penetrating consumers' lives more deeply with time. There has been significant amount of research around what it takes to establish a successful platform and the …
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Privacy Preserving Efficient Data Dissemination in Decentralized Online Social Networks
A growing concern for users of Online Social Networks (OSN) is the privacy and control of user data due to the client-server architecture of the popular ecosystems. In this dissertation, we discuss how to develop a decentralized OSN platform so that the user has direct control of his/her …
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An exploration of user intention and behaviour in the context of the economic development of technology-supported online social networks
Technology-supported online social networks have grown dramatically in recent years. Limited success has been achieved in economically developing them so that users make purchases through them. However these are largely ineffective as they are based on ‘targeting’ users with advertising in an …
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Unassisted Humans Infer Personal Traits from Facebook Group Memberships: An Empirical Study with Implications for Employers and State Entities
The practice of using online social network (OSN) profiles and other internet-based records by third-parties in order to evaluate individuals for various purposes, known as cybervetting, is growing more popular. The United States State Department now requires all non-immigrant and immigrant visa …
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