Garnet on The Discovery Channel
“Something bizarre is loose on the campus grounds of the University of California,Irvine”
Watch it here! Garnet starts around 8:00.
Garnet on Discovery Channel
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| Posted: 4/27/12 1:07 am UTC by admin Make the First Comment | |
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Congratulations Vrishti!
Photo courtesy of paulworthington
Congratulations to Vrishti Gulati who passed her M.S. advancement to candidacy exam today:
Title: Gift Box
Abstract: This paper highlights a research gap in the Internet of Things, i.e., the absence of particular categories of social objects that matter to non-technical everyday users. Social objects are existing physical objects that people bond with, are attached to, or that connect people to each other. We conducted a study, named Gift Box, to specifically look at the social aspects emerging within the Internet of Things (IoT). The study represents gifts, a specific category of social objects that connect people to each other, through pictures on a social media website. The study offers a simulated interaction with the Internet of Things, to identify social objects that matter to users. The study is a first step for users to include objects of their choice. Understanding user engagement and sociality supported within the IoT can lead to a more successfully accepted Internet of Things.
This paper has two contributions: Gift Box user study to identify social objects that matter to users, so that such objects can be included in the Internet of Things and a Technology spectrum for the Internet of Things to support consideration about the kind of objects, technology within the objects, and capability of user contribution to creation of the Internet of Things.
Committee:
- Dr. Donald Patterson (chair)
- Dr. Alfred Kobsa
- Dr. Melissa Mazmanian
- Dr. Bonnie Nardi
- Dr. Alladi Venkatesh
Great Job Vrishti!
| Posted by sri | congrats Vrishti Gulati , good going, all the best for future |
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Tags: Alfred Kobsa, Alladi Venkatesh, Bonnie Nardi, Donald J. Patterson, iot, Melissa Mazmanian, Photos, Vrishti Gulati |
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| Posted: 4/6/12 6:49 pm UTC by admin Add Your Comment | |
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Bowker in U.S. News
Newly arrived Informatics Professor, Geoffrey Bowker makes bold statements in a recent U.S. News and World Report article:
“Yes, it absolutely should be,” says Geoffrey Bowker, professor of informatics at the University of California—Irvine. “All aspects of our personal lives and our work lives are affected by computers. We need to know about the tools that we’re working with.”
But, “Wait!” you say, “What should be? Why are our personal lives invoked? What tools?”
Read more here:
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| Posted: 4/3/12 9:22 pm UTC by admin Make the First Comment | |
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Aliso Beach
S'more
The LUCI lab, along with the rest of the Informatics department, welcomed the prospective grad students with a bonfire on the beach. A few pictures are included in this post. They are courtesy of our awesome undesignated historian, Ben Koehne. He has more if you want them. Thanks Ben!
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| Posted: 3/19/12 4:27 pm UTC by admin Make the First Comment | |
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A Life Lived (and Died) Online
From LUCI Ph.D. graduate student Jed Brubaker, LUCI undergrad researcher Lee Taber, and LUCI faculty Dr. Gillian Hayes’s research comes this article at ReadWriteWeb entitled, “A Life Lived Online: How We Talk About Death on Social Media”:
“By examining user-generated content, the researchers were able to observe the grieving process in a naturalistic, public setting. What’s more is that this study focuses on “extreme expressions of grief and mourning in SNS following the death of a friend or loved one.” This means more than just a few Twitter-esque RIPs, trending topics and the dead popping up in one’s Facebook friend list. The researchers sought to expand the current knowledge base around the use of language in online grieving, rather than focus on the fact that people do express their grief on social media.”
The full press article is online here.
The academic article that inspired it is titled: “Grief-Stricken in a Crowd: The Language of Bereavement and Distress in Social Media” and will be published in the upcoming proceedings of ICWSM-12.
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| Posted: 3/15/12 3:53 pm UTC by admin Make the First Comment | |
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Spring Informatics Seminar Series Announced
UCI Spring Informatics Seminar Series 2012
Featuring Prem Devanbu, Genevieve Bell, Robin Dunbar, Karyn Moffatt, Leah Lievrouw, Sanjoy Mazumdar, Betty Cheng, Morana Alac, Mary Czerwindki, and Sharon Traweek!
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| Posted: 3/9/12 10:10 am UTC by admin Make the First Comment | |
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Is Jed trending? Technorati article goes live
From Technorati “Over 30 Million Accounts on Facebook Belong to Dead People”
A PhD candidate at UC Irvine, Jed Brubaker, studies death and social media and has written about how both service providers such as Facebook and “friends” of the deceased handle death and social media in a research study called Death and the Social Network: The Persistence of Digital Identity.
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| Posted: 3/8/12 5:58 pm UTC by admin Make the First Comment | |
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How we die in social networks
Informatics Ph.D. student Jed Brubaker represents in this article on ReadWriteWeb today!
“Jed Brubaker, a PhD Candidate at the University of California at Irvine, jokingly refers to himself as the “death guy.” But he’s not at all morbid. He describes his stumbling into the area of studies in death on social networks as a system error of sorts.
In 2011, he published a paper called “We will never forget you [online],” an empirical investigation of post-mortem MySpace comments. Starting with this early social network, Brubaker began identifying trends which bled over into Facebook, where we’re more likely to find online memorial services occurring nowadays.”
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| Posted: 3/7/12 1:50 am UTC by admin Make the First Comment | |
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TEDxUCIrvine
Congrats to Informatics grad students Ankita Raturi and Bart Knijnenburg who both rocked today at the TEDxUCIrvine speaking event on campus. The theme of the day was “Under Construction Indefinitely” and in addition to our students 18 other speakers including Francisco Ayala and Erwin Chemerinsky both internationally reknowned scholars on campus. That’s some good company to find yourself in Ankita and Bart!
Among a handful of gaffes that occured during the event was when the M.C. repeatedly mispronounced Bart’s research in “technopsychometrics” as “techo-psychic-metrics” which conjures up very different things. :) There are some other good stories to tell in person.
I’m sure the videos will follow sometime in the future.
Bart Knijnenburg at TEDxUCIrvine
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| Posted: 3/4/12 12:58 am UTC by admin Make the First Comment | |
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