TY - GEN
T1 - Towards an understanding of social inference opportunities in social computing
AU - Mayer, Julia M.
AU - Schuler, Richard P.
AU - Jones, Quentin
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Social computing applications are transforming the way we make new social ties, work, learn and play, thus becoming an essential part our social fabric. As a result, people and systems routinely make inferences about people's personal information based on their disclosed personal information. Despite the significance of this phenomenon the opportunity to make social inferences about users and how this process can be managed is poorly understood. In this paper we 1) outline why social inferences are important to study in the context of social computing applications, 2) how we can model, understand and predict social inference opportunities 3) highlight the need for social inference management systems, and 4) discuss the design space and associated research challenges. Collectively, this paper provides the first systematic overview for social inference research in the area of social computing.
AB - Social computing applications are transforming the way we make new social ties, work, learn and play, thus becoming an essential part our social fabric. As a result, people and systems routinely make inferences about people's personal information based on their disclosed personal information. Despite the significance of this phenomenon the opportunity to make social inferences about users and how this process can be managed is poorly understood. In this paper we 1) outline why social inferences are important to study in the context of social computing applications, 2) how we can model, understand and predict social inference opportunities 3) highlight the need for social inference management systems, and 4) discuss the design space and associated research challenges. Collectively, this paper provides the first systematic overview for social inference research in the area of social computing.
KW - Impression management
KW - Personalization
KW - Privacy
KW - Social computing
KW - Social inference
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U2 - 10.1145/2389176.2389212
DO - 10.1145/2389176.2389212
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84870257659
SN - 9781450314862
T3 - GROUP'12 - Proceedings of the ACM 2012 International Conference on Support Group Work
SP - 239
EP - 248
BT - GROUP'12 - Proceedings of the ACM 2012 International Conference on Support Group Work
T2 - 2012 17th ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work, GROUP 2012
Y2 - 27 October 2012 through 31 October 2012
ER -