In recent years, online interpersonal communication via social media has become an integral part of people’s personal and professional lives. Exponential growth in the adoption of mobile and wearable devices has further enriched communication by incorporating contextually relevant sensor information, such as location. At the same time, the capabilities and functionalities of these devices and s...

For human–robot interaction to proceed in a smooth, naturalmanner, robotsmust adhere to human social norms. One such human convention is the use of expressive moods and emotions as an integral part of social interaction. Such expressions are used to conveymessages such as ‘‘I’m happy to see you’’ or ‘‘I want to be comforted,’’ and people’s long-term relationships depend heavily on shared emotio...

In recent years, social media has become more and more popular because it is playing an important role in empowering citizens, organization of community activism, social good and even used for coordination in emergency situations. The social media has become integral part of the current generation. In this study, we aim to analyze the influence of social media on the users. This study indicates...

The critical study of political discourse has up until very recently rested solely within the domain of the social sciences. Working within a linguistics framework, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), in particular Fairclough (Fairclough 1989, 1995a, 1995b, 2001; Fairclough and Wodak 1997), has been heavily influenced by Foucault. 2 The linguistic theory that CDA and critical linguistics especia...

Today Online Social Networks are integral part of human society. In some or the other way a person maintains a social account which is then used for purposes like building relations, for business, exchange of data etc. The use of OSN’s is therefore increasing day by day demanding for concentration over protection of private information of user’s, their likes and dislikes etc. There are various ...

With the increasing popularity of mobile web, social networking services (SNSs) are an integral part of our everyday lives, since they are used for communicating with friends, for gaining information on other people or some items of interest, and even for business profits. Social network information is incorporated into recommender systems to improve their performance, but most of existing work...

The increased popularity and ubiquitous availability of online social networks and globalised Internet access have affected the way in which people share content. The information that users willingly disclose on these platforms can be used for various purposes, from building consumer models for advertising, to inferring personal, potentially invasive, information. In this work, we use Twitter, ...

Ubiquitous technology platforms have been created to track and improve health and fitness; similar technologies can help individuals monitor and reduce their carbon footprints. This paper proposes CarbonKit – a platform combining technology, markets, and incentives to empower and reward people for reducing their carbon footprint. We argue that a goal-and-reward behavioral feedback loop can be c...

In social tagging sites, users are provided easy ways to create social networks, to post and share items like bookmarks, videos, photos and articles, along with comments and tags. In this paper, we present a study of top-k search in social tagging sites by utilizing multiple social networks and temporal information. In particular, besides the global connection, we consider two main social netwo...

In order to assess the impact of robots on society, it is necessary carefully analyze state-of-the-art, and in particular fundamental issues that have yet be resolved, however having significant potential societal changes resulting from development robotics. The aforementioned depends level intelligence robots, so this aspect dominates presented analysis. presentation has been divided into thre...