“This new center is really amazing in what it can accomplish for families living with ASD and researchers, clinicians and educators working in this area,” Gillian Hayes, the director of technology research for the center, said. “This is one of only a handful of places that supports integrated care across a variety of disorders from birth through adulthood.”
Full article: http://www.newuniversity.org/2013/01/news/centered-around-autism/
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| Posted: 1/30/13 9:46 pm UTC by admin Make the First Comment | |
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Congratulations to Informatics Ph.D. Student Lilly Irani on getting an edition of the journal “limn” out the door. Lilly co-edited this volume with Chris Kelty at UCLA and Nick Seaver from the Department of Anthropology here at UCI. They brought together authors working on crowdsourcing, cloud computing, and historical approaches to representing and intervening in collectivities. Authors include Biella Coleman, Daniel Kreiss, Tarleton Gillespie, and Chris Csikszentmihalyi.
You can see the issue here: http://limn.it/issue/02/
Additionally Lilly contributed an article in the journal called, “Microworking the Crowd“.
“In recent years, however, technologists have found a new workaround to the limits of AI. The “human computation” movement in computer science has advocated for “leveraging the abilities of an unprecedented number of people via the web to perform complex computation” (Law & von Ahn, 2011: viii). The fruits of this research are familiar to anyone who has tried to log into a website only to be challenged with a distorted image of text. Website developers use those images, called CAPTCHAs, to discriminate real people trying to log into a site from password-guessing algorithms trying to break in; CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart. CAPTCHAs succeed at blocking automated break-in attempts building on the observation that recognizing warped text is very hard for a computer but very easy for a literate human being. The more general desire to leverage these computers’ and humans’ differential capabilities are the foundation of the micro-task marketplace called Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT).
Finally there will be an event associated with limn on November 7 at USC titled “The Fate of Interpretation in the Age of Big Data” discussing big data and the election. We’ll post more when we know more.
Congratulations Lilly!
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Tags: AI, anthropology, article, CAPTCHA, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Crowds, Daniel Kreiss, Informatics, Lilly Irani, limn, Mechanical Turk, Microworking, Nick Seaver, research, UCLA, USC |
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| Posted: 10/8/12 3:00 pm UTC by admin Make the First Comment | |
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Dr. Garnet Hertz, center, helps students Jes Koepfler, from the University of Maryland, left, and Anthony Hoffman of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee build an arduino, an open source single board micro controller at a workshop at UCI for doctoral students to build projects focused on a values-based approach to technology design. by SAM GANGWER, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
The Values in Design Lab, founded by Informatics faculty members, is hosting a workshop this week. The O.C. Register covered it in an article posted today:
“The Values In Design lab launched earlier this year at UCI brings together researchers from computer science, engineering and the humanities in an effort to devise ways to design technology for the future that is responsible and inclusive, in turn enabling organizations to create better relationships with their users later on. Researchers in the lab focus on building values like privacy, community, trust, dignity, security, respect and freedom from bias into future technological systems and this week 36 doctoral students from North America and Europe are at UCI working with faculty in a weeklong workshop on the subject.”
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“How do we get more participation and more breadth of participation in our design work?” asked Bowker. “We all need to become designers.”
Jed, apparently the most mediagenic member of our lab, is liberally quoted. :)
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Tags: arduino, article, Cory Knobel, design, Garnet Hertz, Geoff Bowker, Jed Brubaker, LUCI, Values in Design, workshop |
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| Posted: 8/22/12 5:04 pm UTC by admin Make the First Comment | |
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Hot on the heels of the public announcement of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing is this article in the LA Times. There’s not much new information in it, but its an important venue!
“UC Irvine is the research hub, with four other campuses participating. The university will receive $5 million over five years, with an additional $7.5 million being split among the other universities.
Experts from those schools, which include Cornell University, Indiana University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and New York University, specialize in anthropology, media studies, digital humanities, philosophy and computer science, among other disciplines.
Each year, the research center will explore a new defining theme, the first being restoring “materiality” to information. Researchers will explore the “connection of information to the physical world,” Dourish said.
Intel researchers will work with dozens of faculty members and graduate and doctoral students in the campus labs. The research will not be owned by Intel but will instead be public, open intellectual property, the university said.” [citation]
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| Posted: 7/2/12 4:17 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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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 djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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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 djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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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 djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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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 djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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DAT Space hooligans
With workshop topics ranging from Arduino hacking to espresso brewing, new student organization Design, Art, and Technology Hackerspace (DAT Space) is making good on its promise to provide a student-run physical space where members of the UCI community can meet and work together on creative projects.
Read more here.
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| Posted: 12/8/11 3:17 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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mouse
LUCI gets some love from the press:
“After 30 Years, Computer Mouse Still Prevails”
The world the mouse created
One cannot understand the success and longevity of the computer mouse without putting it in the context of the computing revolution it enabled. Before the mouse, users interacted with their computers by feeding in abstract punch cards or linguistically confusing lines of code words. The mouse transformed the computer into a visual device, thereby moving computing into the visual, immediate, “what you see is what you get” world that humans feel comfortable with.
“[The mouse] was a key development in the creation of graphic user interfaces,” said Donald Patterson, director of the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction at the University of California, Irvine. “The mouse enabled long-term engagement with the screen, albeit indirectly, in a way that wasn’t particularly expensive and wasn’t prone to arm and hand fatigue.”
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| Posted: 4/28/11 11:37 pm UTC by djp3 Add Your Comment | |
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