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Finding information about mental health in microblogging platforms: a case study of depression (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M. L., Ali, S. A., & Valstar, M. F. (2014). Finding information about mental health in microblogging platforms: a case study of depression. In IIiX '14 Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium. https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637006

Searching for online health information has been well studied in web search, but social media, such as public microblogging services, are well known for different types of tacit information: personal experience and shared information. Finding useful... Read More about Finding information about mental health in microblogging platforms: a case study of depression.

A user defined taxonomy of factors that divide online information retrieval sessions (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ye, C., & Wilson, M. L. (2014). A user defined taxonomy of factors that divide online information retrieval sessions.

Although research is increasingly interested in session-based retrieval, comparably little work has focused on how best to divide web histories into sessions. Most automated attempts to divide web histories into sessions have focused on dividing web... Read More about A user defined taxonomy of factors that divide online information retrieval sessions.

More than Liking and Bookmarking? Towards Understanding Twitter Favouriting Behaviour (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Meier, F., Elsweiler, D., & Wilson, M. L. (2014, June). More than Liking and Bookmarking? Towards Understanding Twitter Favouriting Behaviour. Presented at Proceedings of the Eighth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Microblogging services, such as Twitter, offer a variety of interactive features that allow users to engage with contacts in their social network and the content they produce. One such feature is the favourite button on Twitter, an icon in the form o... Read More about More than Liking and Bookmarking? Towards Understanding Twitter Favouriting Behaviour.

A data driven approach to mapping urban neighbourhoods (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brindley, P., Goulding, J., & Wilson, M. L. (2014). A data driven approach to mapping urban neighbourhoods.

Neighbourhoods have been described by the UK Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government as the “building blocks of public service society”. Despite this, difficulties in data collection combined with the concept’s subjective nature have... Read More about A data driven approach to mapping urban neighbourhoods.