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20122017
most citedDo Social Explanations Work? Studying and Modeling the Effects of Social Explanations in Recommender Systems

36 citations · 45 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.HC2017

Raising Awareness of Conveyed Personality In Social Media Traces

Bin Xu, Liang Gou, Anbang Xu +2

Users' persistent social media contents like posts on Facebook Timeline are presented as an "exhibition" about the person to others, and managing these exhibitional contents for im…

cs.SI2016

Using Text Similarity to Detect Social Interactions not Captured by Formal Reply Mechanisms

Samuel Barbosa, Roberto M. Cesar-Jr, Dan Cosley

In modeling social interaction online, it is important to understand when people are reacting to each other. Many systems have explicit indicators of replies, such as threading in…

cs.SI2016

Averaging Gone Wrong: Using Time-Aware Analyses to Better Understand Behavior

Samuel Barbosa, Dan Cosley, Amit Sharma +1

Online communities provide a fertile ground for analyzing people's behavior and improving our understanding of social processes. Because both people and communities change over tim…

cs.SI2016

Distinguishing between Personal Preferences and Social Influence in Online Activity Feeds

Amit Sharma, Dan Cosley

Many online social networks thrive on automatic sharing of friends' activities to a user through activity feeds, which may influence the user's next actions. However, identifying s…

cs.SI2016

Predictability of Popularity: Gaps between Prediction and Understanding

Benjamin Shulman, Amit Sharma, Dan Cosley

Can we predict the future popularity of a song, movie or tweet? Recent work suggests that although it may be hard to predict an item's popularity when it is first introduced, peeki…

cs.SI20139 cited

Friends, Strangers, and the Value of Ego Networks for Recommendation

Amit Sharma, Mevlana Gemici, Dan Cosley

Two main approaches to using social network information in recommendation have emerged: augmenting collaborative filtering with social data and algorithms that use only ego-centric…