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CSCW
2016
ACM
10 years 3 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
10 years 3 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
10 years 3 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
10 years 3 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
10 years 3 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
10 years 4 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
10 years 4 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
CSCW
2016
ACM
10 years 4 days ago
PlanSourcing: Generating Behavior Change Plans with Friends and Crowds
Specific, achievable plans can increase people’s commitment to behavior change and increase their likelihood of success. However, many people struggle to create such plans, and ...
Elena Agapie, Lucas Colusso, Sean A. Munson, Gary ...
CSCW
2016
ACM
10 years 4 days ago
Personality Matters: Balancing for Personality Types Leads to Better Outcomes for Crowd Teams
When personalities clash, teams operate less effectively. Personality differences affect face-to-face collaboration and may lower trust in virtual teams. For relatively short-live...
Ioanna Lykourentzou, Angeliki Antoniou, Yannick Na...