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SoBot: facilitating conversation using social media data and a social agent

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Bin Xu,

Tina Chien-Wen Yuan,

Susan R. Fussell,

Dan CosleyAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW Companion '14: Proceedings of the companion publication of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing

Pages 41 - 44

https://doi.org/10.1145/2556420.2556789

Published: 15 February 2014 Publication History

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With the rising popularity of online social media, people generate a lot of data in social media applications like Facebook and Twitter. We present a communication facilitating system called SoBot, which demonstrates to obtain and utilize this data and works as a facilitating introduction system to help users conduct conversations with other users in offline social activities. We explain our research questions and some design choices around SoBot, with discussions on next step developments.

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CSCW Companion '14: Proceedings of the companion publication of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing

February 2014

372 pages

ISBN:9781450325417

DOI:10.1145/2556420

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Susan Fussell
Cornell University
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University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Microsoft Research
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Penn State University

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