The cross-fertilization of social and technical systems research is rapidly expanding: new fields of research, such as computational social science, data science, data-driven urban research and anthropology, are emerging and the big social data is revolutionizing many classical disciplines.
This workshop represents an effort toward melding these communities to trigger new collaborations and delineate future challenges.
Topics of interest
Particular attention will be devoted, but not limited to, the following topics:
Studying offline (real-world) human activities using online data
Comparing social interactions on the web with offline ones
Urban research and geo-social studies using web and social data
Harnessing online data to understand and predict offline phenomena
Studying human behaviors using online games
Personal analytics and online sharing behaviors
Social movements and the web
Politics online and offline
Crime on the web and crimes using the web
Deadlines
Workshop paper deadlines: Jan 7, 2014 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)
Workshop paper notifications: Feb 4, 2014
Workshop paper final copy hard deadline: Feb 12, 2014