This paper motivates the blend of social computing with service-oriented computing, giving “birth” to social Web services. On the one hand, social computing builds user applications upon the principles of collective action and content sharing. On the other hand, serviceoriented computing builds enterprise applications upon the principles of service offer and demand and loose coupling. Thanks to...

A debate exists as to whether social cues should be intentionally designed into the user interface. Some have argued that such interfaces will improve comfort with the interface, create a more natural interaction and improve productivity, although others have argued that these interfaces will lead individuals to ascribe characteristics and responsibilities to computing technology that it does n...

N. S. A. Silva, G. J. M. Costa, S. Rogerson and M. Prior 1 PhD Students, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom 2 Principal Lecturer, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom 3 Director, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom

Recently, the use of social and human computing has witnessed increasing interest in the AI community. However, in order to harness the true potential of social computing, human subjects must play an active role in achieving computation in social networks and related media. Our work proposes an initial desiderata for effective social computing, drawing inspiration from artificial intelligence. ...

Sentient computing was conceived in 1999 and aims to make applications more responsive and useful by observing and reacting to the physical world [7]. It is particularly attractive in a world of mobile users and computers. In recent years we have observed a convergence between services enabled by ubiquitous computing technologies [16] and applications offered to social networks. The overlap wil...

While traditional research has focused on the computer as a tool, more recent research has begun to explore the myriad of social responses that people make toward computing technology. This paper describes an ongoing research project that focuses on social attributions toward computing technology. Marakas, Johnson, & Palmer (2000) have suggested that individual psychological responses play an i...