Garnet Hertz, our local Artist-in-Residence, Researcher, etc…. etc… is featured in this video put out by the ICS communications department. Yay Toy Hacking!
Toy Hacking DIY Workshop Video
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e-Government in Access of Nutrition Assistance Programs
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Congratulations to LUCI grad student Lynn Dombrowski on passing her advancement to candidacy exam!
The Role of e-Government Intermediaries in Access and Use of Government Nutrition Assistance Programs
“E-Government technologies are assumed to transform the relationship between citizens and their governments through creating new forms of interactions provided by the Internet, but there are few empirical examinations on how this transformation might take place for low-resource populations. In this work, I detail the social, informational, and technical practices of nonprofit workers, who I call “e-Government intermediaries”, in their work of assisting their clients with gaining access to and use of government nutrition assistance programs. I explore the four mediation activities these workers engage in to make the online application and government program a viable option for their communities: outreach, technological assistance, providing knowledge, and ongoing engagement. I then examine two major challenges that occur in their work of mediating government programs: access and trust. These two challenges directly relate to the mediation activities. The challenge of access relates the mediation activity of technical assistance. I detail the practical accomplishment of access, which enables outreach workers to perform technical assistance. The other challenge of the mediation activities is trust, which pervades all of the mediation activities, as it must be continually negotiated, but is most strongly associated with the mediation activity of outreach. Lastly, I articulate design implications to support these e-Government intermediaries’ and their practices that facilitate digital and social inclusion.”
Committee:
Gillian Hayes (Co-Chair), Melissa Mazmanian (Co-Chair), Paul Dourish, Geoffrey Bowker, Bill Tomlinson, Michael Montoya
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It takes a network to get dinner
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Congratulations to LUCI grad students Lynn Dombrowski, Jed Brubaker, Sen Hirano and LUCI faculty Melissa Mazmanian and Gillian R. Hayes on having a paper conditionally accepted to UBICOMP 2013!
It takes a network to get dinner: Designing location-based systems to address local food needs
“Based on an 18 month qualitative study that included the creation and testing of design considerations and a prototype location-based information system (LBIS), this research provides empirical insight into the daily practices of a wide variety of individuals working to address food insecurity in one county. Qualitative fieldwork reveals that nonprofit organizations in the food assistance ecology engage in location-based information practices that could be enhanced by the design of a LBIS. Two practices that would benefit from a collaborative LBIS are 1) practices of matching in which non-profit workers help individuals who are seeking assistance to food resources and 2) practices of distribution in which nonprofit workers help organizations access and deliver food resources to clients. In order to support such practices across organizations the cooperative design component of this research suggests that an LIBS should: support the role of intermediaries who engage in practices of matching and distribution; provide interactive mapping tools that match resources to need; enable organizations to control visibility over specific data; foster network resilience by decentralizing data management across the ecology of organizations working toward an overarching mission, and document various accounts of impact. This research further suggests that designers should explore the wide variety of spatial patterns that must align and overlap such that ecologies of nonprofit organizations might synergistically work together to address pressing social needs.”
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Detecting food type and cooking state with gas sensors during dry cooking
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Congratulations to LUCI grad students Sen Hirano, Jed Brubaker and LUCI faculty Don Patterson, and Gillian Hayes on having a paper conditionally accepted to UBICOMP 2013!
Detecting food type and cooking state with gas sensors during dry cooking
“In this paper, we describe the potential for using gas sensors to track food during the cooking process. Focusing on one cooking method–dry cooking–we collected gas emissions using a combination of 14 sensors during trials in which food was cooked to various degrees of doneness. Using decision tree classifiers, we were able to predict doneness for waffles and popcorn with 73% and 85% accuracy, respectively. We reflect on the potential reasons for this variation and the ways in which gas sensors might reliably be used in ubicomp applications to support cooking.”
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Tags: Donald J. Patterson, food, Gillian Hayes, Jed Brubaker, paper, Sen Hirano, sensors, UBICOMP |
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The Nuts and Bolts of Making and Delivering a MOOC
Special Panel on MOOCs
The Nuts and Bolts of Making and Delivering a MOOC
Thursday, May 16 1:00 – 2:30 pm 6011 Donald Bren Hall
There is much interest at present in Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. We are bringing together three instructors who have taught successful MOOCs to share their experiences and ideas. All are welcome.
Panelists
Dan Russell, Google
Scott Klemmer, Stanford University
Charles Severance, University of Michigan
Moderator
Gary Olson, UC Irvine
Panelists’ Backgrounds
Dan Russell is the Google Uber Tech Lead for Search Quality and User Happiness. He is the creator and moderator of “AGoogleADay.com” which tests your search skills. More relevant to this panel, he has developed and delivered two very well received MOOCs: Basic Power Searching with Google, and Advanced Power Searching with Google. He has not only delivered these MOOCs several times, but has mountains of data to analyze their success.
Scott Klemmer is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, moving soon to UCSD. Scott has created and delivered a very popular course on Human Computer Interaction, with the key feature that students evaluate each others’ work. This led to the design of a peer assessment system for Coursera that has been used by more than two dozen courses. Scott has additionally done research on online classes, their construction, delivery and analysis.
Charles Severance is Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. Previously he was the Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation, the core of many learning management systems. Charles is better known as “Dr. Chuck,” hosting a national TV show Internet: TCI on TCI Cable. More recently he has offered a MOOC, “Internet History, Technology and Security,” one of the first humanities courses run by Coursera, and an early proving ground for peer-grading.
Gary Olson is Donald Bren Professor of Computer and Information Sciences in the school of the same name. He is an ACM Fellow and a Lifetime Achievement Award winner from ACM:SIGCHI, the special interest group in Computer Human Interaction. With his background in cognitive psychology and current work in distance work that is enabled by technology, he is both very excited and deeply concerned about the opportunities afforded by MOOCS.
Sponsored by The Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
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CRA Undergraduate Researcher Award 2013
Congratulations to former LUCI undergraduate, Rachel Ulgado, for winning an Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association‘s (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award (Female) 2013! Way to go Rachel!
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Celebrating Dr. Hayes’ Tenure
Local grad students celebrate Gillian’s tenure with industrial quantities of Jolly Ranchers. It smells like a Sanrio store around here. I love the photos of falling candy.
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Data Science for Social Good
Congrats to LUCI grad student John Brock for receiving a Summer Fellowship to attend the Data Science for Social Good program at the University of Chicago.
“It’s wonderful to see so many people with great analytics, machine learning, and data mining skills and such a passion for doing good in the world. “
About the program
Fellows will work in small teams with mentors from the Obama campaign analytics team and seasoned data scientists from academia and business on high-impact projects in education, healthcare, energy, transportation, and more.
This full-time program is selective, intensive, and hands-on:
- You’ll work with nonprofits and governments to solve big problems with data.
- You’ll learn how to apply statistics, machine learning, and big data technologies to problems that matter.- And you’ll work collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams.
Our advisors include Eric Schmidt (Google), Rayid Ghani (former Chief Scientist for Obama 2012 campaign), and Jake Porway (DataKind).
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Prof. Hayes wins Microsoft Software Engineering Award
Congratulations to Prof. Gillian Hayes!
“Each year, the Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) awards US$25,000 grants to support academic research in software engineering technologies, tools, practices, and teaching methods. SEIF is supported by Microsoft Research Connections Computer Science in conjunction with the Research in Software Engineering Group (RiSE). This year, we were joined by the Microsoft Technology Policy Group.”
“Additionally, with the advent of new tablet devices and ever more powerful phones, applications that use software services and cloud computing become both challenging and rewarding areas for researchers to explore.
Four of this year’s SEIF awards support this area of scientific exploration:
- Nilanjan Banerjee at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, is constructing a wearable assistive device that recognizes gestures for paralysis patients.
- Eelke Folmer at University of Nevada, Reno, is creating a spatial navigator for people who are blind.
- Gillian R. Hayes at University of California, Irvine, is building interactive surfaces with body-based interactions to provide guidance to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
- Shaun K. Kane and Amy Hurst at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will work on Wheeltop Interaction: Full-Body Gesture Control for Power Wheelchair Users”
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Social Computing Graduate Research Awards
The Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) for Social Computing, based here at UCI, invites applications for its Graduate Research Awards for AY 2013-14. Graduate fellows will serve a term of one year and will be appointed as Graduate Student Researchers, with stipend commensurate with candidacy status, and full tuition (non-resident where appropriate), fee and health insurance coverage for three quarters during AY2013-14 (Fall, Winter, Spring). Applicants must be graduate students in good standing and may be pre- or post-candidacy. Applicants’ dissertation research should address one or more of the ISCT’s broad research themes: the materialities of information, algorithmic living, information ecosystems, subjectivities of information, and creativity and collectivity. See http://socialcomputing.uci.edu/ for a detailed description of these themes. Graduate fellows are expected to participate actively in all ISTC activities, and must be willin! g to attend monthly meetings, occasional seminars, and workshops and other activities on the Irvine campus, and at Intel Labs in Portland and our partner campuses (Georgia Tech, NYU, Cornell and Indiana University). During their tenure, students are expected to complete a significant piece of research, which will be disseminated via the ISTC’s internal website and other forums.
Applications from all fields of humanities, social sciences, information and computer sciences, engineering and arts are welcome. Please submit a 1-2 page CV and a two-page, single spaced statement of your dissertation research and its connection to one or more ISTC research themes, including a brief description of the work you hope to complete as an ISTC fellow (which may include fieldwork). Please also include a short letter endorsing your research plans from your primary advisor. Applications should be submitted electronically to Julio Rodriguez (juliojr@uci.edu) by May 1. Applicants will be notified of the results by May 17.
The ISTC for Social Computing is one of a network of university-based research centers supported by Intel Corporation. Based at UC Irvine, ISTC-Social is focused particularly on interdisciplinary investigations of the social and cultural aspects of information technology and digital media, and is a partnership with Intel’s Interaction and Experience Research laboratory.
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