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Overview

Licia Capra is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their main fields of study include Computer Science and Social Sciences, with a body of work spanning 19 publications in the former and 13 in the latter. Their research engages multiple subfields, including Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Communication, and Marketing.

Their research interests focus on specific topics such as Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence, Social Media and Politics, AI in Service Interactions, Speech and Dialogue Systems, Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction, Digital Marketing and Social Media, and Sharing Economy and Platforms.

Frequent co-authors include Daniele Quercia, Sanja Šćepanović, Giovanni Quattrone, Basil Mahfouz, and Geoff Mulgan. Their work has appeared in several prominent publication venues, notably the Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, arXiv (Cornell University), EPJ Data Science, and ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.

Among recent publications are:

  • "The Social World of Twitter: Topics, Geography, and Emotions," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "The Life of the Party: Impact of Social Mapping in OpenStreetMap," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "It's Good to Talk: A Comparison of Using Voice Versus Screen-Based Interactions for Agent-Assisted Tasks," 2022, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
  • "A global-scale analysis of the sharing economy model - an AirBnB case study," 2022, EPJ Data Science
  • "A Computational Linguistic Approach to Study Border Theory at Scale," 2024, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Best Publications

  • Urban Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, and Applications

    Yu Zheng;Licia Capra;Ouri Wolfson;Hai Yang

  • CARISMA: context-aware reflective middleware system for mobile applications

    L. Capra;W. Emmerich;C. Mascolo

  • A survey of the use of crowdsourcing in software engineering

    Ke Mao;Licia Capra;Mark Harman;Yue Jia

  • Temporal diversity in recommender systems

    Neal Lathia;Stephen Hailes;Licia Capra;Xavier Amatriain

  • Who Benefits from the "Sharing" Economy of Airbnb?

    Giovanni Quattrone;Davide Proserpio;Daniele Quercia;Licia Capra

  • xlinkit: a consistency checking and smart link generation service

    Christian Nentwich;Licia Capra;Wolfgang Emmerich;Anthony Finkelsteiin

  • Mobile Computing Middleware

    Cecilia Mascolo;Licia Capra;Wolfgang Emmerich

  • XMIDDLE: A Data-Sharing Middleware for Mobile Computing

    Cecilia Mascolo;Licia Capra;Stefanos Zachariadis;Wolfgang Emmerich

  • Media sharing based on colocation prediction in urban transport

    Liam McNamara;Cecilia Mascolo;Licia Capra

  • Social ranking: uncovering relevant content using tag-based recommender systems

    Valentina Zanardi;Licia Capra

  • Tracking "gross community happiness" from tweets

    Daniele Quercia;Jonathan Ellis;Licia Capra;Jon Crowcroft

  • Reflective Middleware Solutions for Context-Aware Applications

    Licia Capra;Wolfgang Emmerich;Cecilia Mascolo

  • Trust-Based Collaborative Filtering

    Neal Lathia;Stephen Hailes;Licia Capra

  • The Social World of Twitter: Topics, Geography, and Emotions

    Daniele Quercia;Licia Capra;Jon Crowcroft

  • Physikit: Data Engagement Through Physical Ambient Visualizations in the Home

    Steven Houben;Connie Golsteijn;Sarah Gallacher;Rose Johnson

  • B-Trust: bayesian trust framework for pervasive computing

    Daniele Quercia;Stephen Hailes;Licia Capra

  • In the Mood for Being Influential on Twitter

    Daniele Quercia;Jonathan Ellis;Licia Capra;Jon Crowcroft

  • Temporal collaborative filtering with adaptive neighbourhoods

    Neal Lathia;Stephen Hailes;Licia Capra

  • Middleware for mobile computing: awareness vs. transparency

    L. Capra;W. Emmerich;C. Mascolo

  • Avoiding the crowds: understanding Tube station congestion patterns from trip data

    Irina Ceapa;Chris Smith;Licia Capra

  • Exploiting reflection in mobile computing middleware

    Licia Capra;Gordon S. Blair;Cecilia Mascolo;Wolfgang Emmerich

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniele Quercia
Daniele Quercia Nokia Bell Labs
Cecilia Mascolo
Cecilia Mascolo University of Cambridge
Wolfgang Emmerich
Wolfgang Emmerich University College London
Stephen Hailes
Stephen Hailes University College London
Yvonne Rogers
Yvonne Rogers University College London
Pasquale De Meo
Pasquale De Meo University of Messina
Jon Crowcroft
Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge
Mirco Musolesi
Mirco Musolesi University College London
Emilio Ferrara
Emilio Ferrara University of Southern California
Paul Marshall
Paul Marshall University of Bristol

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