W earable computers enhance personal computing with continuously worn, intelligent assistants that augment memory, intellect, creativity, communication, and physical senses.1–3 As wearable computing technology pervades our daily lives, we must ask how it influences social behavior. Will it merely make people “smarter” by providing seamless, context-aware access to information, or will it also e...

Social media-based Social Networking Service (SNS) has grown dramatically over the last decade. Numerous users have strengthened their human networks by joining SNS. Although many service providers tend to develop SNS according to the needs of users, it is difficult to develop SNS based on large amounts of social media using traditional techniques with related to processing and transmitting it ...

People working in teams are vulnerable to so-called “process losses,” which occur when the team’s output is less than what could be produced given the capabilities of the team members. Teams can develop practices that provide awareness of each other’s activities, thereby enabling them to coordinate activities better and reducing one of these process losses – coordination loss. Such awareness is...

Pervasive social computing is a promising approach that promises to empower both the individual and the whole and thus candidates itself as a foundation to the “smarter” social organizations that our new turbulent and resource-scarce worlds so urgently requires. In this contribution we first identify those that we consider as the major requirements to be fulfilled in order to realize an effecti...

Computing is highly segregated and stratified by gender. While there is abundant scholarship investigating this problem, emerging evidence suggests that a hierarchy of value exists between the social and technical dimensions of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and this plays a role in the underrepresentation of women in the field. This ethnographic study of women's experiences in computin...

This paper investigates situating of ubiquitous computing within our current everyday environments. We describe how tying information to actual physical locations can improve the usefulness of ubiquitous computing environments and promote the use of ubiquitous computing services. It is envisioned that these environments will emerge as a social framework for information distribution, and that th...

this research by a quantitative approach tries to study the effect of self-disclosure in social networks on the development of social capital. in this regard, the main emphasis is on the role of spiritual capital. study population is students of tehran university and eventually 380 participated in this study. a questionnaire with five point likert scales that designed from credible sources were...

one of the main features of high throughput computing systems is the availability of high power processing resources. cloud computing systems can offer these features through concepts like pay-per-use and quality of service (qos) over the internet. many applications in cloud computing are represented by workflows. quality of service is one of the most important challenges in the context of sche...