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Georg Groh

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arXiv2014

Reaching Consensus Among Mobile Agents: A Distributed Protocol for the Detection of Social Situations

Physical social encounters are governed by a set of socio-psychological behavioral rules with a high degree of uniform validity. Past research has shown how these rules or the resulting properties of the encounters (e.g. the geometry of interaction) can be used for algorithmic detection of social interaction. In this paper, we present a distributed protocol to gain a common understanding of the existing social situations among agents. Our approach allows a group of agents to combine their subjective assessment of an ongoing social situation. Based on perceived social cues obtained from raw data signals, they reach a consensus about the existence, parameters, and participants of a social situation. We evaluate our protocol using two real-world datasets with social interaction information and additional synthetic data generated by our social-aware mobility model.

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arXiv2014

Designing Sound Collaboratively - Perceptually Motivated Audio Synthesis

In this contribution, we will discuss a prototype that allows a group of users to design sound collaboratively in real time using a multi-touch tabletop. We make use of a machine learning method to generate a mapping from perceptual audio features to synthesis parameters. This mapping is then used for visualization and interaction. Finally, we discuss the results of a comparative evaluation study.

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arXiv2014

An evaluation of keyword extraction from online communication for the characterisation of social relations

The set of interpersonal relationships on a social network service or a similar online community is usually highly heterogenous. The concept of tie strength captures only one aspect of this heterogeneity. Since the unstructured text content of online communication artefacts is a salient source of information about a social relationship, we investigate the utility of keywords extracted from the message body as a representation of the relationship's characteristics as reflected by the conversation topics. Keyword extraction is performed using standard natural language processing methods. Communication data and human assessments of the extracted keywords are obtained from Facebook users via a custom application. The overall positive quality assessment provides evidence that the keywords indeed convey relevant information about the relationship.

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arXiv2012

Spatio-Temporal Small Worlds for Decentralized Information Retrieval in Social Networking

We discuss foundations and options for alternative, agent-based information retrieval (IR) approaches in Social Networking, especially Decentralized and Mobile Social Networking scenarios. In addition to usual semantic contexts, these approaches make use of long-term social and spatio-temporal contexts in order to satisfy conscious as well as unconscious information needs according to Human IR heuristics. Using a large Twitter dataset, we investigate these approaches and especially investigate the question in how far spatio-temporal contexts can act as a conceptual bracket implicating social and semantic cohesion, giving rise to the concept of Spatio-Temporal Small Worlds.

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arXiv2011

Interest-Based vs. Social Person-Recommenders in Social Networking Platforms

Social network based approaches to person recommendations are compared to interest based approaches with the help of an empirical study on a large German social networking platform. We assess and compare the performance of different basic variants of the two approaches by precision / recall based performance with respect to reproducing known friendship relations and by an empirical questionnaire based study. In accordance to expectation, the results show that interest based person recommenders are able to produce more novel recommendations while performing less well with respect to friendship reproduction. With respect to the user's assessment of recommendation quality all approaches perform comparably well, while combined social-interest-based variants are slightly ahead in performance. The overall results qualify those combined approaches as a good compromise.

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arXiv2011

Space and Time as a Primary Classification Criterion for Information Retrieval in Distributed Social Networking

We discuss in a compact way how the implicit relations between spatiotemporal relatedness of information items, spatiotemporal relatedness of users, social relatedness of users and semantic relatedness of information items may be exploited for an information retrieval architecture that operates along the lines of human ways of searching. The decentralized and agent oriented architecture mirrors emerging trends such as upcoming mobile and decentralized social networking as a new paradigm in social computing and is targetted to satisfy broader and more subtly interlinked information demands beyond immediate information needs which can be readily satisfied with current IR services. We briefly discuss why using spatio-temporal references as primary information criterion implicitly conserves other relations and is thus suitable for such an architecture. We finally shortly point to results from a large evaluation study using Wikipedia articles.

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