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CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 26 days ago
On the Wisdom of Experts vs. Crowds: Discovering Trustworthy Topical News in Microblogs
Extracting news on specific topics from the Twitter microblogging site poses formidable challenges, which include handling millions of tweets posted daily, judging topicality and...
Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Parantapa Bhattacharya, Nilo...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 26 days ago
MixMeetWear: Live Meetings at a Glance
We present MixMeetWear, a smartwatch application that allows users to maintain awareness of the audio and visual content of a meeting while completing other tasks. Users of the sy...
Ville Mäkelä, Scott Carter, Jennifer Mar...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 26 days ago
Considering Time in Designing Large-Scale Systems for Scientific Computing
High performance computing (HPC) has driven collaborative science discovery for decades. Exascale computing platforms, currently in the design stage, will be deployed around 2022....
Nan-Chen Chen, Sarah S. Poon, Lavanya Ramakrishnan...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 26 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 26 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 26 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 26 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 26 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