European Social Science Research Group on Drug Issues

Research Issues in Social Computing * Research Issues in Social Computing

Social Computing and online communities have ushered in a new era of the web, where information and communication technologies are facilitating organized human endeavor in fundamentally new ways. The broad impact of social computing in diverse domains and the complexity of features that span diverse disciplines pose new challenges for Information Systems researchers. Information Systems researc...

European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies.

The EGE underlines the vital importance of addressing concern for safety with respect to nanomedical developments (and, in fact, nanotechnology in general) and therefore advocates the need to establish measures to verify the safety of nanomedical products and to ensure that nanomedical devices are properly assessed with regard to public health. The Group proposes that institutions already opera...

Ethical Issues in Different Social Science Methods

Thc c~hical issues arising in social science research tend to vary as a func­ tion of the particular research methods employed. Fer-example, certain genres of social-psychological experiments have created ethical concerns because they involve mlsrecresenrarion of the purpose of the research to the partici­ pants or because they subject participants to stressful experiences. Some organi2ational ...

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Science and Social Research (CSSR)(Malaysia)

User Issues in Social Group Recommender Systems

Social group recommender systems aim to recommend items of interest to a social group or a community of people. The user issues in such systems cannot be addressed by examining the satisfaction of their members as individuals. Rather, group satisfaction should be studied as a result of the interaction and interface methods that support group dynamics and interaction. This report first introduce...