An Experiment in Social Hygiene

An Experiment in Social Search

Social search is an approach to Web search that attempts to offer communities of like-minded individuals more targeted search services, based on the search behaviour of their peers, bringing together ideas from Web search, social networking and personalization. In this paper we describe the I-SPY architecture for social search and present the results of a recent live-user evaluation that highli...

Problem Families: An Experiment in Social Rehabilitation

Social Hygiene Symposium 2005

Photodermatoses are a group of heterogeneous disorders with diverse clinical manifestations and complex aetiology. They can be classified into five general categories including (1) photodermatoses which are secondary to exogenous agents, such as phototoxic and photoallergic reactions, (2) photoexacerbated dermatoses, (3) photodermatoses which are idiopathic such as polymorphic light eruption (P...

Animal Rights Consideration is a Necessity in Conducting an Experiment

Social distance and reciprocity: An Internet experiment

We explore the effects of social distance in experiments conducted over the Internet on three continents, in classroom laboratory sessions conducted in Israel and Spain, and in computer sessions pairing participants from different states, one in Texas and the other in California. Our design elicits individual behavior profiles over a range of contingencies, enabling us to identify heterogeneity...