Whoo.ly: Facilitating information seeking for hyperlocal communities using social media

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3481-3490

  Hu, Yuheng ^a   Farnham, Shelly D ^b   Monroy Hernández, Andrés ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Civic engagement; Event detection; Hyperlocal community; Location based social networks; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT; EVENT DETECTION; HYPERLOCAL COMMUNITY; LOCATION-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES; WEB SERVICES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84877953566     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2466478     Document Type: Conference Paper

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