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...

In the social network interoperability space, several organizations have made great strides in forging agreements on interaction protocols among applications and between applications and their host containers. Less attention has been paid to another critical aspect of application interoperability, i.e. the shared representations of social network data. The importance of a shared syntax and sema...

How can the performance of a social robot be measured? Are existing metrics and techniques appropriate for physically and socially embodied autonomous mobile robots? With the rapid expansion of robust robotic systems from strong industrial applications to domestic and entertainment domains which naturally involve social interactions, a requirement to gauge a system’s abilities either individual...

In the early 1990s, computer scientists became motivated by the idea of rendering human-computer interactions more humanlike and natural for their users in order to both address complaints that technologies impose a mechanical (sometimes even anti-social) aesthetic to their everyday environment, and also investigate innovative ways to manage system-environment complexity. With the recent develo...

ECONOMIC and social development policies both aim at improving the welfare of the population, though they often appear to compete with rather than complement each other. This is especially true for emerging nations, whose limited resources impose a degree of austerity upon the satisfaction of the collective economic demands of their citizens. In such circumstances, social security provisions ma...

This contribution presents a modeling approach for describing social issues in knowledge organizations. Social issues are one key factor in knowledge organizations for its business success. In the first part, a knowledge organization is described as a socio-technical system with heterarchic structures. Then modes for exploring social structures using Social Network Analysis (SNA) are introduced...

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 ...

Social networks are becoming pervasive in todays world. Millions of people worldwide are involved in different form of online networking, with Facebook being one of the most popular sites. Online networks allow individuals to connect with friends and family, and share their private information. One of the reasons for the popularity of virtual communities is the perception of benefits received f...