Social streaming? Navigating music as personal and social

Navigating Social Life: on Social Cognition

Navigating Social Spaces

Behaviour of robots within a human-populated space can be disruptive, as robot motion does not necessarily conform to social norms. Typical movement models are oblivious to social expectations, and so easily violate personal space and other social rules, magnifying the unnatural behaviour of robot agents and causing discomfort to human occupants. This paper presents a navigation algorithm that ...

Navigating Social Life: on Social Cognition in Health and Psychosis

SUMMARY Summary Social cognitive abilities underpin successful social functioning. They enable humans to fine-tune their behaviour to that of others and to guide behaviour within social relationships. Basic social cognitive abilities emerge during early childhood, but the more elaborate forms continue to develop into adulthood. Understanding how social cognition impacts upon social behaviour is...

Social Live-streaming: Twitch.tv

The recent explosive growth of live-streaming, particularly video game streaming on Twitch.tv, has led to the development of young communities in a diverse and frequently evolving virtual social space. This study is a Social Network Analysis that aims to uncover how communities are interlocked based on attributes such as Community membership and stream style/type. Additionally, the network geog...

Mining Music Social Networks for Automating Social Music Services

Community-driven services compile data provided by the community members, for instance playlists in Web 2.0 music sites. We show how this data can be analysed and knowledge about sequential associations between songs and artists can be discovered. While most of this kind of analysis focus on (symmetric) similarity measures, we intend to discover which songs can “musically follow” others, focusi...