"I need to try this!": A statistical overview of Pinterest

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2427-2436

  Gilbert, Eric ^a   Bakhshi, Saeideh ^a   Chang, Shuo ^b   Terveen, Loren ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

CMC; Pinterest; Social network sites; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CMC; PINTEREST; QUANTITATIVE APPROACH; RESEARCH INTERESTS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SOCIAL CONNECTION; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES; TWITTER;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84877946696     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2481336     Document Type: Conference Paper

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