Making sense of strangers' expertise from signals in digital artifacts

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 69-78

  Shami, N Sadat ^a   Ehrlich, Kate ^a   Gay, Geri ^b   Hancock, Jeffrey T ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Social Dynamics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Expertise search; Signaling; Social networks; Social software

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; DIGITAL ARTIFACTS; EXPERTISE SEARCH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNALING THEORY; SOCIAL CONNECTION; SOCIAL SOFTWARE;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNALING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84892474406     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518713     Document Type: Conference Paper

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