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Bostandjiev, Svetlin Alex I. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The evolution of the Web brought new interesting problems to computer scientists that we loosely classify in the fields of social and semantic computing. Social computing is related to two major paradigms: computations carried out by a large amount of people in a collective intelligence fashion (i.e. wikis), and performing computations on social…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Semantics, Language Processing, Computer Interfaces
Wisniewski, Pamela J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
"Interpersonal boundary regulation" is a way to optimize social interactions when sharing and connecting through Social Networking Sites (SNSs). The theoretical foundation of much of my research comes from Altman's work on privacy management in the physical world. Altman believed that "we should attempt to design responsive…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Web Sites, Privacy, Man Machine Systems
Poole, Erika Shehan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Visions of future computing in residential settings often come with assumptions of seamless, well-functioning, properly configured devices and network connectivity. In the near term, however, processes of setup, maintenance, and troubleshooting are fraught with difficulties; householders regularly report these tasks as confusing, frustrating, and…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Influence of Technology, Science and Society, Computers