Understanding experts’ and novices’ expertise judgment of Twitter users

Citation

Liao, V.; Wagner, C.; Pirolli, P.; Fu, W. Understanding experts’ and novices’ expertise judgment of Twitter users. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012); 2012 May 5-10; Austin, TX.

Abstract

Presents an empirical study to understand the differences between experts and novices in judging expertise of Twitter authors. Provides design guidelines for micro-blogger recommendation system.


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