Generating targeted advertisements for online social networks is a problem of growing interest. Monetizing activity in online social networks has been the topic of heated discussion lately. The undiscriminating tastes and spending power of a majority of its members makes this medium for self-expression and opinion sharing a very lucrative venue for advertising. The recent $240 million investmen...

This paper presents a method for estimating contextual appropriateness of speaker’s emotions, supported with the analysis of Contextual Valence Shifters (CVS), which determine the semantic orientation of the valence of emotive expressions. In the proposed method a Web mining technique is used to verify the contextual appropriateness of the emotions recognized by a system for affect analysis sup...

In this paper, I describe how the methods of Rapid Contextual Design [2] were used in an elective course given on User Centered Design in Computer Science at Reykjavik University. The students used contextual interviews, affinity diagrams, data walk, visioning, paper prototypes and paper prototype interviews in a software project where the aim was to co-operate with real users when analyzing, d...