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人类地图集:绘制社交网络的工具

Human Atlas: A Tool for Mapping Social Networks

Martin Saveski, Eric Chu, Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy

摘要:

大多数社会网络分析集中在在线社交网络。虽然这些网络对我们生活的重要方面进行了编码,但它们未能捕捉到许多现实世界的联系。事实上,这些联系大多是公开的,社区成员都知道。绘制它们是一项非常适合众包的任务:它很容易分解为许多简单而独立的子任务。由于社交网络的本质--存在高度连接的节点和紧密结合的群体--如果我们允许用户映射他们的直接联系和他们之间的联系,我们将需要很少的参与者来映射社区内的大多数联系。为此,我们建立了人类地图集,一个基于网络的社交网络地图工具。为了测试它,我们部分映射了麻省理工学院媒体实验室的社交网络。我们进行了用户研究,并邀请社区成员使用该工具。在4.6个工时内,22名参与者绘制了实验室内的984个连接,展示了该工具的潜力。

英文摘要:

Most social network analyses focus on online social networks. While these networks encode important aspects of our lives they fail to capture many real-world connections. Most of these connections are, in fact, public and known to the members of the community. Mapping them is a task very suitable for crowdsourcing: it is easily broken down in many simple and independent subtasks. Due to the nature of social networks -- presence of highly connected nodes and tightly knit groups -- if we allow users to map their immediate connections and the connections between them, we will need few participants to map most connections within a community. To this end, we built the Human Atlas, a web-based tool for mapping social networks. To test it, we partially mapped the social network of the MIT Media Lab. We ran a user study and invited members of the community to use the tool. In 4.6 man-hours, 22 participants mapped 984 connections within the lab, demonstrating the potential of the tool.

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