This paper provides a historical perspective of computing technology along with its evolutionary phases. It is a scientific endeavour to understand and further investigate the significant role played by human which leads to the development of innovative technologies. A comprehensive study of invention from personal to cooperative and then to social computing has been done and its impacts have b...

Scholarly research into the uses of social media has become a major area of growth in recent years, as the adoption of social media for public communication itself has continued apace. While social media platforms provide ready avenues for data access through their Application Programming interfaces, it is increasingly important to think through exactly what these data represent, and what concl...

Social Computing (SC) requires agents to reason seamlessly both on their social relationships and on their goals, beliefs. We claim the need to explicitly represent the social state and social relationships as resources, available to agents. We built a framework, based on JaCaMo, where this vision is realized and SC is implemented through social commitments and commitment protocols. 1998 ACM Su...

A ubiquitous wearable computing infrastructure is now firmly entrenched within organizations across the globe, yet much of its potential remains untapped. This paper describes how the handheld computers and mobile phones in today’s organizations can be used to quantify face-to-face interactions and to infer aspects about a user's situation, enabling more creative and transparent functioning of ...

Social computing refers to supporting social interaction and socialization by the use of IT systems [1; 2]. Within that context, the term “social software” is used for tools or services that “support, extend or derive added value from human social behavior” [3]. While both terms “social computing” and “social software” have only become relatively popular within the last five years, the core ide...