Ranking designs and users in online social networks

Biplab Deka, Haizi Yu, Devin Ho, Zifeng Huang, Jerry O. Talton, Ranjitha Kumar

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Abstract

This work-in-progress presents a new algorithm that leverages social network structure to rank designs and users in online design communities. The algorithm is based on the intuition that the importance of a design should depend on the rank of the users that created and promoted it, and the importance of a user should depend on the rank of the designs he creates and promotes in turn. The algorithm produces design rankings that are positively correlated with existing social metrics such as number of likes, but also allows designs with second-order social import to rise through the ranks. We demonstrate that the algorithm converges, and analyze the rankings it produces on both simulated and scraped social design networks.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCHI 2015 - Extended Abstracts Publication of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publicationCrossings
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages1887-1892
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450331463
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 18 2015
Event33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: Apr 18 2015Apr 23 2015

Publication series

NameConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume18

Other

Other33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period4/18/154/23/15

Keywords

  • Design
  • Social networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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