Changing social relationships

Closing the Gap through Changing Relationships: evaluation

Explaining Social Relationships

Our work is aimed at explaining relationships between entities, and in particular, between persons. We note that there is an increasing amount of social network data on the web. This data may be leveraged to provide information about relationships. In the mobile computing ecosystem, with its many mobile devices and software applications, explanations of relationships between potential communica...

Social relationships and health.

The author discusses 3 variables that assess different aspects of social relationships—social support, social integration, and negative interaction. The author argues that all 3 are associated with health outcomes, that these variables each influence health through different mechanisms, and that associations between these variables and health are not spurious findings attributable to our person...

StRuctuRE OF SOcIAL RELAtIONShIPS

this article explores the relative influence of individual and network-level effects on the emergence of online social relationships. using network modeling and data drawn from logs of social behavior inside the virtual world Second Life, we combine individualand network-level theories into an integrated model of online social relationship formation. Results reveal that time spent online and th...

Reasoning about social choices and social relationships

We study inferences about social choices—choices that affect people besides the chooser. Social choices depend on the relationships between the people involved: for example, whether they are friends, strangers, or enemies. We propose that these different social relationships correspond to different ways in which the chooser weights another person’s utility relative to her own. We describe a pro...