Social computing research map

Online society has triggered social computing which is an interdisciplinary that takes a computational approach to the study and modelling of social interactions and communications. How to measure this field´s state of the art is an important work to foster its prosperity. In this paper, we figure out a dual-dimension framework of focus and mature-level to characterize the discipline. Aiming at focus, we propose a research focus spectrum lens to make sense of which aspect a study focuses on from social behaviour to computational systems. We give a benchmark to measure the mature level of a social computing study based on Denning´s computing paradigm. We use the framework to analyze the 187 paper s published at the SocialCom09. Based the analysis result, we map the social computing field by the distribution on research focus and the distribution on mature level.