Measuring user activity on an online location-based social network

2011 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 918-923

  Scellato, Salvatore ^a   Mascolo, Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHECK-IN; LOCATION BASED; ONLINE BEHAVIOR; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; USER ACTIVITY; USER EXPERIENCE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; USER INTERFACES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 79960589490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOMW.2011.5928943     Document Type: Conference Paper

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