Publications related to Online participation

Content Moderation in Online Platforms

A critical role of online platforms like Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube, Amazon, Doordash, and Tinder is to moderate content. Interventions like banning users or deleting comments are carried out thousands of times daily and can potentially improve our onlin ...

EPFL2024

Quantifying online citizen science: Dynamics and demographics of public participation in science

Jérôme Baudry, Steven Piguet

Citizen scientists around the world are collecting data with their smartphones, performing scientific calculations on their home computers, and analyzing images on online platforms. These online citizen science projects are frequently lauded for their pote ...

2023

Participation citoyenne et numérique. Les civic tech : de nouveaux dispositifs pour planifier le territoire ?

Armelle Loreline Hausser

Civic technologies emerged a few years ago as tools to create new dynamics in the management and governance of urban planning, as well as renewing participatory democracy. In territories where the collision of different scales complicates the understanding ...

EPFL2023

Online Dating Quantification Practices: A Human-Machine Learning Process

Jessica Carolina Pidoux

The phenomenon of online dating via web and mobile phone applications involves several actors: graphical interfaces, developers, algorithmic systems for user matching, and users. These actors have been studied in parallel by the social sciences and by comp ...

EPFL2021

Blending Digital and Face-to-Face Interaction Using a Co -Located Social MediaApp in Class

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts, Benoît Garbinato

Improving face-to-face (f2f) interaction in large classrooms is a challenging task as student participation can be hard to initiate. Thanks to the wide adoption of personal mobile devices, it is possible to blend digital and face-to-face interaction and in ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2018

Dynamics of MOOC Discussion Forums

Pierre Dillenbourg, Mina Shirvani Boroujeni

In this integrated study of dynamics in MOOCs discussion forums, we analyze the interplay of temporal patterns, discussion content, and the social structure emerging from the communication using mixed methods. A special focus is on the yet under-explored a ...

2017

SpeakUp in the Classroom: Anonymous Temporary Social Media for Better Interactions

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts

Student participation in class is an important aspect of the learning experience, and can provide valuable feedback for teachers. However, getting students to interact in large classrooms is challenging. This paper presents SpeakUp, a mobile temporary soci ...

2014

The YouTube Lens: Crowdsourced Personality Impressions and Audiovisual Analysis of Vlogs

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Joan Isaac Biel Tres

Despite an increasing interest in understanding human perception in social media through the automatic analysis of users' personality, existing attempts have explored user profiles and text blog data only. We approach the study of personality impressions i ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

Direct Negative Opinions in Online Discussions

Boi Faltings, Claudiu-Cristian Musat, Philippe Henri Jean Roussille

In this paper we investigate the impact of antagonism in online discussions. We define antagonism as a new class of textual opinions - direct sentiment towards the authors of previous comments. We detect the negative sentiment using aspect-based opinion mi ...

2013

A Model of Online Social Interactions based on Sentiment Analysis and Content Similarity

Boi Faltings, Claudiu-Cristian Musat, Philippe Henri Jean Roussille

In this paper we create a model of human behavior in online communities, based on the network topology and on the communication content. The model contains eleven distinct hypotheses, which validate three intuitions. The rst intuition is that the network t ...

2013

Efficient monitoring of personalized hot news over Web 2.0 streams

Karl Aberer, Sebastian Michel, Parisa Haghani

Web 2.0 streams, like blog postings, microblogging tweets, or RSS feeds from online communities, offer a wealth of latest news about real-world events and societal discussion. From a user’s perspective, it becomes harder and harder to get a decent overview ...

2012

Multi-Graph Sampling Of Online Communities Via Mean Hitting Time

We derive a framework for sampling online communities based on the mean hitting time of its members, considering that there are multiple graphs associated with the same vertex set V representing the social network. First, we formulate random walk models on ...

Ieee2012

Modeling and Understanding Communities in Online Social Media using Probabilistic Methods

Radu Andrei Negoescu

The amount of multimedia content is on a constant increase, and people interact with each other and with content on a daily basis through social media systems. The goal of this thesis was to model and understand emerging online communities that revolve aro ...

EPFL2011

Modeling and Understanding Flickr Communities through Topic-based Analysis

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Radu Andrei Negoescu

With the increased presence of digital imaging devices there also came an explosion in the amount of multimedia content available online. Users have transformed from passive consumers of media into content creators and have started organizing themselves in ...

2010

Leveraging User-Generated Content for Information Discovery on the Web

Adriana Budura

The large-scale adoption of the Web 2.0 paradigm has revolutionized the way we interact with the Web today. End-users, so far mainly passive consumers of information are now becoming active information producers, creating, uploading, and commenting on all ...

EPFL2010

The Participation Payoff: Challenges and Opportunities for Multimedia Access in Networked Communities

Frédéric Dufaux

Increasingly, multimedia collections are associated with networked communities consisting of interconnected groups of users who create, annotate, share, view, critique and remix collection content. Information arises within networked communities via connec ...

2010

Mechanisms for Making Crowds Truthful

Boi Faltings, Radu Jurca

We consider schemes for obtaining truthful reports on a common but hidden signal from large groups of rational, self-interested agents. One example are online feedback mechanisms, where users provide observations about the quality of a product or service s ...

AI Access Foundation2009

Open source corporate strategy (OSCS) : unveiling the firm's open sources of competitive advantage

Juan Andrei Villarroel Fernandez

This doctoral dissertation defines and sheds light on a nascent phenomenon in management, informally referred to as "crowdsourcing". I term this concept Open Source Corporate Strategy, or OSCS, which borrows insights from the open source innovation literat ...

EPFL2008

Truthful reputation mechanisms for online systems

Radu Jurca

The internet is moving rapidly towards an interactive milieu where online communities and economies gain importance over their traditional counterparts. While this shift creates opportunities and benefits that have already improved our day-to-day life, it ...

EPFL2007