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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Social computing"”.
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Design of a kickstand-integrated bicycle lock for a bike share program
… kickstand was developed for the MIT Media Lab's Social Computing group as part of a peer-to-peer bike-share program currently in development. Connecting to the rear axle, the system consists of two modules, each constructed of many planar parts cut on the waterjet from aluminum. The first of …
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Social Media Intelligence extractor
… gave birth to a whole new data source called social media. Social media is a term that integrates technology, social interaction and user generated content and differs from traditional broadcasting. It commonly comprises of technologies such as instant messaging programs, discussion forums, …
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Data visualization and optimization techniques for urban planning
… techniques originate from contributions to the Social Computing Group's "You Are Here" project, which publishes maps intended to be viewed as a blend between art and urban planning tools. In particular these maps and this thesis focus on the topics of education and transportation. Eventually we …
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Social Media Intelligence extractor
… gave birth to a whole new data source called social media. Social media is a term that integrates technology, social interaction and user generated content and differs from traditional broadcasting. It commonly comprises of technologies such as instant messaging programs, discussion forums, …
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Social Media Intelligence extractor
… gave birth to a whole new data source called social media. Social media is a term that integrates technology, social interaction and user generated content and differs from traditional broadcasting. It commonly comprises of technologies such as instant messaging programs, discussion forums, …
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Information trust, inference and transfer in social and information networks
… crowdsourced information that is collected from computing systems based on social networks and represented in information networks. Due to the autonomous nature of such a social computing paradigm, the crowdsourced information is often subject to low quality, contributed by susceptible …
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Multiple Ownership in Access Control
In social computing, multiple users may share privacy stakes in a content. Contents contributed by a user may be annotated by other users (e.g., “like” or “comment”). Also users may get associated to a content that is contributed by other users (e.g., get tagged in a photo). In other scenarios, …
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Semantic technologies:from niche to the mainstream of Web 3? A comprehensive framework for web Information modelling and semantic annotation
… information management and knowledge discovery. Social technologies, user-generated classification schemes and formal semantics have a far-reaching sphere of influence. They promote collective intelligence, support interoperability, enhance sustainability and instigate innovation. Contribution: …
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Traits, States and Situations: Automatic Prediction of Personality and Situations from Actual Behavior
… deciding on what is the circumstance and the social context, and finally predicting the individual’s needs. Even if computers are so deeply involved in our daily lives, they lack basic social skills that would allow for natural communication. We believe automatic personality recognition will …
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Configuration and control in social media systems
Social media is an important means for interaction, but one that is increasingly curated by automated systems that aim to intelligently infer user intentions. This dissertation studies how users experience different mechanisms to configure and control these automated systems. Three sets of …
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Behind the Counter: Exploring the Motivations and Perceived Effectiveness of Online Counterspeech Writing and the Potential for AI-Mediated Assistance
In today's digital age, social media platforms have become powerful tools for communication, enabling users to express their opinions while also exposing them to various forms of hateful speech and content. While prior research has often focused on the efficacy of online counterspeech, little is …
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Toward Geo-social Information Systems: Methods and Algorithms
The widespread adoption of GPS-enabled tagging of social media content via smartphones and social media services (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare) uncovers a new window into the spatio-temporal activities of hundreds of millions of people. These \footprints" open new possibilities for …
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Data Mining Academic Emails to Model Employee Behaviors and Analyze Organizational Structure
Email correspondence has become the predominant method of communication for businesses. If not for the inherent privacy concerns, this electronically searchable data could be used to better understand how employees interact. After the Enron dataset was made available, researchers were able to …
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COVID-19 misinformation on Twitter: the role of deceptive support
Social media platforms like Twitter are a major dissemination point for information and the COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. But not all of the information comes from reliable sources, which raises doubts about their validity. In social media posts, writers reference news articles to gain …
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Investigating representational biases in stock photo website search results
Stock photos have been widely used in various media, such as newspapers and blogs. They are relatively understudied in media and advertising, perhaps because the concept of stock photos encompasses a wide range of images, and websites dedicated to gathering, displaying, and selling stock photos …
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Telling your story: autobiographical metadata and the semantic web
… protocols.<br/><br/>The current popularity of social computing – Web 2.0 – where users post personal information to online communities is eluding to the fact that information, linked and shared within a social-context presents added value to the end-user. Given the sensitive nature of personal …
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Participating and designing around algorithmic socio-technical systems
… full of algorithmically selected content such as social media feeds, recommendations and personalized search results. These algorithms curate everyday online content by prioritizing, classifying, associating, and filtering information. However, while these algorithms have great power to shape …
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Understanding and circumventing censorship on Chinese social media
… every layer of their communications. Although social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are blocked in China, Chinese Internet users have the local replicas such as WeChat and Sina Weibo to communicate with others. However, these sites employ both advanced keyword detection …
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The role of copyright in online creative communities: law, norms, and policy
Many sources of rules govern our interactions with technology and our behavior online—law, ethical guidelines, community norms, website policies—and they do not always agree. This is particularly true in the context of content production because copyright law represents a collection of complex …
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Social mirrors: visualization as conversation feedback
Social cues shape our interactions and the way others see us. We convey a persona through our actions and words, but we are not always aware of how we are seen and interpreted. We use cues to coordinate conversation, determine speaker, and sense the mood of a group. However, online social spaces …
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