With the growing amount of social media contents, the user needs more accurate information that reflects his interests. We focus on deriving user’s profile and especially user’s interests, which are key elements to improve adaptive mechanisms in information systems (e.g. recommendation, customization). In this paper, we are interested in studying two approaches of user’s profile derivation from...

INTRODUCTION Care-planning meetings represent a common method of needs assessment and decision-making practices in elderly care. Older people's influence is an important and required aspect of these practices. This study's objective was to describe and analyse older people's influence on care-planning meetings at home and in hospital. METHODS Ten care-planning meetings were audio-recorded in ...

Background. The question whether old media are driven out of existence by new media has been a long concern in academic and industrial research but has received no definitive answer. Aim. This paper goes beyond most previous studies of Internet impact on traditional media, which have placed their relationship within a competitionbased framework, to specifically investigate the complementary eff...

Predicting whether a new medium can be successively implemented and whether or not it will be widely adopted by its intended users is a tricky business. For example AT&T introduced the Picturephone—its trademarked videophone service—in the 1960s, first for business customers only after which they introduced it on the residential market in 1970. AT&T forecasted that by the mid-1980s 2 million Pi...

This paper examines social media use after a tragic disaster in a rural community in the United States—the 2014 Oso Landslide. Drawing upon interviews with community members and digital traces from multiple platforms, we explore how affected locals, government responders and journalists utilized a broad range of social media in their work—assembling different platforms to meet the information n...

Network and linked data have become quite prevalent in recent years because of the ubiquity of the web and social media applications, which are inherently network oriented. Such networks are massive, dynamic, contain a lot of content, and may evolve over time in terms of the underlying structure. In this paper, we will study the problem of dynamic link inference in temporal and heterogeneous in...

BACKGROUND Good communication around cancer treatment is essential in helping patients cope with their disease and related care, especially when this information is tailored to one's needs. Despite its importance, communication is often complex, in particular in older patients (aged 65 years or older). In addition to the age-related deterioration in information and memory processing older patie...

the paper seeks to identify starbuck's experience in using social media, understand how social media is linked to customer knowledge management, and assess how social media services could have contributed to starbucks success. starbucks demonstrates versatility to engage customers and support different part of customer knowledge management strategy through various social media platforms, such a...