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2016
ACM
10 years 1 months 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, ...
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CSCW
2016
ACM
10 years 1 months 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...
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CSCW
2016
ACM
10 years 1 months 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...
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CSCW
2016
ACM
10 years 1 months 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
10 years 1 months 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, ...