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Microeconomics and social systems applies social sciences techniques, including algorithmic game theory, economics, network analysis, psychology, ethnography, and mechanism design, to online situations. We explore how participants interact and model and build systems.

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Keep your hair on: designed and emergent interactions for graphical virtual worlds Elizabeth Churchill; Bob Moore, interactions, ACM Press, 2008, 3
Open, closed, or ajar?: Content access and interactions Elizabeth Churchill; Mark Vanderbeeken, interactions, ACM Press, 2008, 5
Maps and moralities, blanks and beasties Elizabeth Churchill, interactions, ACM Press, 2008, 4
Media spaces: past visions, current realities, future promise Ron Baecker; Steve Harrison; Bill Buxton; Steven Poltrock; Elizabeth Churchill, CHI 2008, ACM Press, 2008 [view abstract]
Designing for digital archives Elizabeth Churchill; Jeff Ubois, interactions, ACM Press, 2008, 2
What's in a name?: idioms, metaphors, and design Elizabeth Churchill, interactions, ACM Press, 2008, 1
MapChat: Location-Centric Chat Elizabeth F. Churchill;Elizabeth S. Goodman;M. Cameron Jones, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2008 [view abstract]
Mashing up Visual Languages and Web Mash-ups M. Cameron Jones; Elizabeth F. Churchill; Michael B. Twidale, IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, IEEE, 2008 [view abstract]
Workshop: Tinkering, Tailoring, & Mashing: The Social and Collaborative Practices of the Read-Write Web M. Cameron Jones;Elizabeth F. Churchill;Michael B. Twidale, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2008
Resolving incommensurable debates: A preliminary identification of persona kinds, attributes and characteristics Ingbert R. Floyd;M. Cameron Jones;Michael B. Twidale, Artifact, Routledge, 2008, 1 [view abstract]
Audio Cover Song Identification: MIREX 2006-2007 Results and Analyses J. Stephen Downie;Mert Bay;Andreas F. Ehmann;M. Cameron Jones, International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2008 [view abstract]
Sharing Online Advertising Revenue with Consumers Yiling Chen; Arpita Ghosh; Preston McAfee; David Pennock, WINE, 2008 [view abstract]
Optimal Envy-free Pricing with Metric Substitutability Ning Chen; Arpita Ghosh; Sergei Vassilvitskii, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'08), 2008 [view abstract]
Externalities in Online Advertising Arpita Ghosh; Mohammad Mahdian, 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2008 [view abstract]
Inferring the structure and scale of modular networks Jake M. Hofman; Chris H. Wiggins, 6th International Conference on Mining and Learning with Graphs, 2008 [view abstract]
Influence and Correlation in Social Networks Aris Anagnostopoulos; Ravi Kumar; Mohammad Mahdian, 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2008 [view abstract]
Charity Auctions on Social Networks Arpita Ghosh; Mohammad Mahdian, 19th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2008 [view abstract]
A Bayesian approach to network modularity Jake M. Hofman; Chris H. Wiggins, Physical Review Letters, 2008 [view abstract]
WYSIWYG Development of Data Driven Web Applications Fan Yang; Nitin Gupta; Chavdar Botev; Elizabeth Churchill; George Levchenko; Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, VLDB, 2008
Efficient Top-K Processing over Query-Dependent Functions Lin Guo; Sihem Amer-Yahia; Raghu Ramakrishnan; Jayavel Shanmugasundaram; Utkarsh Srivastava; Erik Vee, VLDB, 2008

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