Designing social translucence over social networks

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2731-2740

  Gilbert, Eric ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cmc; Design; Social networks; Social translucence; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CMC; NETWORK STRUCTURES; NEW DESIGN; PHYSICAL METAPHOR; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL NETWORK STRUCTURES; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL TRANSLUCENCE; TWITTER;

COMPUTATION THEORY; DESIGN; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84862069140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208670     Document Type: Conference Paper

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