Predicting tie strength with social media

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 211-220

  Gilbert, Eric ^a   Karahalios, Karrie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Relationship modeling; Sns; Social media; Social networks; Tie strength; Ties

Indexed keywords

RELATIONSHIP MODEL; SNS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TIE STRENGTHS; TIES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; ERGONOMICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84892455410     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518736     Document Type: Conference Paper

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