Ravi Vatrapu

TL;DR: Results show that users of knowledge maps created more hypotheses earlier in the experimental sessions and elaborated on them more than users of threaded discussions, suggesting that there was greater collaboration during the session.

TL;DR: This paper examines two years of posts on the Facebook walls of the three major contenders for the U.S. Presidency in 2008 and analyzes participation patterns of usage along dimensions of breadth and frequency, and interpret them in terms of the concept of the "public sphere".

TL;DR: This research work proposes a conceptual design for sharing personal continuous-dynamic health data using blockchain technology supplemented by cloud storage to share the health-related information in a secure and transparent manner and introduces a data quality inspection module based on machine learning techniques to have control over data quality.

TL;DR: The results of the study empirically establish that culture significantly affects the efficacy of structured interviews during international user testing as discussed by the authors, and that participants found more usability problems and made more suggestions to an interviewer who was a member of the same culture than to the foreign (Anglo-American) interviewer.

TL;DR: This paper presents a novel approach for reducing the anonymity of the Bitcoin Blockchain by using Supervised Machine Learning to predict the type of yet-unidentified entities, and finds that it can indeed predict thetype of a yet- unidentified entity.