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CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 27 days ago
Parting Crowds: Characterizing Divergent Interpretations in Crowdsourced Annotation Tasks
Crowdsourcing is a common strategy for collecting the “gold standard” labels required for many natural language applications. Crowdworkers differ in their responses for many r...
Sanjay Kairam, Jeffrey Heer
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 27 days ago
Jokebox: Coordinating Shared Encounters in Public Spaces
Eye contact is crucial to shared encounters in public spaces. However, most urban technologies that aim to foster social interaction tend to rely on screens, directing a significa...
Mara Balestrini, Raymundo Cornejo, Paul Marshall, ...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 27 days ago
Characterizing Dietary Choices, Nutrition, and Language in Food Deserts via Social Media
Social media has emerged as a promising source of data for public health. This paper examines how these platforms can provide empirical quantitative evidence for understanding die...
Munmun De Choudhury, Sanket S. Sharma, Emre Kicima...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 27 days ago
Remixing as a Pathway to Computational Thinking
Theorists and advocates of “remixing” have suggested that appropriation can act as a pathway for learning. We test this theory quantitatively using data from more than 2.4 mil...
Sayamindu Dasgupta, William Hale, Andrés Mo...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 27 days ago
Confer: A Conference Recommendation and Meetup Tool
One of the primary goals of academic conferences is to promote scientific exchange of advances among people who may otherwise not have the opportunity to hear from one another. W...
Amy Zhang, Anant P. Bhardwaj, David R. Karger
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 27 days ago
Quantifying and Predicting Mental Illness Severity in Online Pro-Eating Disorder Communities
Social media sites have struggled with the presence of emotional and physical self-injury content. Individuals who share such content are often challenged with severe mental illne...
Stevie Chancellor, Zhiyuan Lin, Erica L. Goodman, ...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 27 days ago
GroupLink: Group Event Recommendations Using Personal Digital Traces
We present GroupLink, a group event recommendation system that suggests events to promote group members’ face-to-face interactions in non-work settings. GroupLink addresses the ...
Honghao Wei, Cheng-Kang Hsieh, Longqi Yang, Debora...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 27 days ago
Beyond the Belmont Principles: Ethical Challenges, Practices, and Beliefs in the Online Data Research Community
Pervasive information streams that document people and their routines have been a boon to social computing research. But the ethics of collecting and analyzing available—but pot...
Jessica Vitak, Katie Shilton, Zahra Ashktorab
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 27 days ago
Why Do Teammates Hate Me? Cross-Cultural Tensions and Social Dynamics in Online Games
We discuss the multi-ethnic tension and social dynamics behind toxicity in online game Dota 2. We present a player survey and preliminary analysis of user-generated keywords and f...
Jialun Jiang, Svetlana E. Yarosh