{"title":"X-hinter: a framework for implementing social oriented recommender systems","authors":"A. Panisson, G. Ruffo, R. Schifanella","doi":"10.1145/1379092.1379142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1379092.1379142","url":null,"abstract":"Accordingly to the nature of data-driven applications that produce information overload, users need a support to make choices, even without sufficient personal experience of the alternatives. In this context, social networking techniques could be useful applied for finding affinities between users and filter information in a personalized way. After proposing a generalized model for social recommender systems, called X-Hinter, we describe a Java API that provides a set of libraries and tools to build social filtering systems in a wide range of domains. A prototype implementation, named DeHinter, shows the feasibility of the proposed approach in a P2P file sharing application.","PeriodicalId":285799,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124526740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving the usability of web 2.0 applications","authors":"C. Pilgrim","doi":"10.1145/1379092.1379144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1379092.1379144","url":null,"abstract":"Web 2.0 is revolutionizing the way that users access content and interact with each other on the Web. Unfortunately, many developers are inspired by what is technologically possible possibly disregarding good design practice and fundamental theory. Very little research on Web 2.0 usability is reported in the literature. This paper reports progress on an investigation into the usability of Web 2.0 applications through an empirical study of the level of disorientation and cognitive overhead that users might experience. The outcomes of this project aim to provide an empirical basis for the development of design guidelines to improve Web 2.0 usability.","PeriodicalId":285799,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127221462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asap: a planning tool for agile software development","authors":"R. Petersen, U. Wiil","doi":"10.1145/1379092.1379101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1379092.1379101","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the ASAP planning tool. ASAP uses different hypertext structuring mechanisms to provide support for project planning. The design concepts and prototype features are inspired from previous work on structural computing and spatial hypertext. A use scenario demonstrates the capabilities of the tool to support the Blitz Planning activity from the Crystal Clear agile software development methodology. Future work is aimed at broadening the applicability of ASAP towards general project planning.","PeriodicalId":285799,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132457179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social selected learning content out of web lectures","authors":"M. Ketterl, J. Emden, J. Brunstein","doi":"10.1145/1379092.1379140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1379092.1379140","url":null,"abstract":"Virtpresenter is a system for recording lectures and for re-using recorded contents in other didactic scenarios. Here we demonstrate how the interaction of earlier visitors in form of footprints can be used for extracting relevant passages in time based media. We illustrate how to extract online web lecture snippets for enriching static contents of a course wiki page or student blogs.","PeriodicalId":285799,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115879650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating success factors for hypermedia development tools","authors":"D. Bolchini, F. Garzotto, P. Paolini","doi":"10.1145/1379092.1379128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1379092.1379128","url":null,"abstract":"What are the key factors that contribute to the \"success\" of a hypermedia development tool? We have investigated this issue in the context of non ICT professional environments (e.g., schools or small museums), which have limited \"in-house\" technical competences and must cope with very limited budget. We discuss a set of success factors relevant to hypermedia tools targeted to this audience, and present a tool for multichannel hypermedia development that we have developed with these factors in mind. We report the key results from a wide on-the-field study in which the different success factors have been measured.","PeriodicalId":285799,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115905101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaolin Shi, Matthew Bonner, Lada A. Adamic, A. Gilbert
{"title":"The very small world of the well-connected","authors":"Xiaolin Shi, Matthew Bonner, Lada A. Adamic, A. Gilbert","doi":"10.1145/1379092.1379108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1379092.1379108","url":null,"abstract":"Online networks occupy an increasingly larger position in how we acquire information, how we communicate with one another, and how we disseminate information. Frequently, small sets of vertices dominate various graph and statistical properties of these networks and, because of this, they are relevant for structural analysis and efficient algorithms and engineering. For the web overall, and specifically for social linking in blogs and instant messaging, we provide a principled, rigorous study of the properties, the construction, and the utilization of subsets of special vertices in large online networks. We show that graph synopses defined by the importance of vertices provide small, relatively accurate portraits, independent of the importance measure, of the larger underlying graphs and of the important vertices. Furthermore, they can be computed relatively efficiently.","PeriodicalId":285799,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127823758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeing things in the clouds: the effect of visual features on tag cloud selections","authors":"Scott Bateman, C. Gutwin, Miguel A. Nacenta","doi":"10.1145/1379092.1379130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1379092.1379130","url":null,"abstract":"Tag clouds are a popular method for visualizing and linking socially-organized information on websites. Tag clouds represent variables of interest (such as popularity) in the visual appearance of the keywords themselves - using text properties such as font size, weight, or colour. Although tag clouds are becoming common, there is still little information about which visual features of tags draw the attention of viewers. As tag clouds attempt to represent a wider range of variables with a wider range of visual properties, it becomes difficult to predict what will appear visually important to a viewer. To investigate this issue, we carried out an exploratory study that asked users to select tags from clouds that manipulated nine visual properties. Our results show that font size and font weight have stronger effects than intensity, number of characters, or tag area; but when several visual properties are manipulated at once, there is no one property that stands out above the others. This study adds to the understanding of how visual properties of text capture the attention of users, indicates general guidelines for designers of tag clouds, and provides a study paradigm and starting points for future studies. In addition, our findings may be applied more generally to the visual presentation of textual hyperlinks as a way to provide more information to web navigators.","PeriodicalId":285799,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123361790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can blog communication dynamics be correlated with stock market activity?","authors":"M. Choudhury, H. Sundaram, A. John, D. Seligmann","doi":"10.1145/1379092.1379106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1379092.1379106","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we develop a simple model to study and analyze communication dynamics in the blogosphere and use these dynamics to determine interesting correlations with stock market movement. This work can drive targeted advertising on the web as well as facilitate understanding community evolution in the blogosphere. We describe the communication dynamics by several simple contextual properties of communication, e.g. the number of posts, the number of comments, the length and response time of comments, strength of comments and the different information roles that can be acquired by people (early responders / late trailers, loyals / outliers). We study a \"technology-savvy\" community called Engadget (http://www.engadget.com). There are two key contributions in this paper: (a) we identify information roles and the contextual properties for four technology companies, and (b) we model them as a regression problem in a Support Vector Machine framework and train the model with stock movements of the companies. It is interestingly observed that the communication activity on the blogosphere has considerable correlations with stock market movement. These correlation measures are further cross-validated against two baseline methods. Our results are promising yielding about 78% accuracy in predicting the magnitude of movement and 87% for the direction of movement.","PeriodicalId":285799,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125856715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Session details: Hypertext, culture, and communication","authors":"M. Bernstein","doi":"10.1145/3246994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3246994","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":285799,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115728883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}