Are you recovering from the emotional scarring which is caused by CHI reviews? Well so is Informatics Ph.D. student Bart Knijnenberg. But will he wallow in self-despair, no!
Instead he has produced CHI Paper Review Bingo. Turn your silent stewing into a public airing of your grievances. Try CHI Paper Review Bingo and post your result on Twitter with hash tag #chipaperbingo.
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| Posted: 11/15/12 5:20 pm UTC by admin 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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Tags: article, facebook, Gillian R. Hayes, ICSWM, Jed Brubaker, Lee Taber, press, twitter |
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| Posted: 3/15/12 3:53 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Justin recently presented our work at UMAP 2010, Twitter, Sensors and UI: Robust Context Modeling for Interruption Management . We happened to have a camera-woman on our side that took the video. The conference was in Hawaii, that’s why Justin is wearing a flower necklace!
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Tags: Donald J. Patterson, Hawaii, Justin Tang, twitter, UMAP 2010, youtube |
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| Posted: 7/6/10 9:13 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Tags: facebook, humor, twitter, youtube |
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| Posted: 6/8/10 1:31 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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One of the major telecom companies in Japan, KDDI, released a web app called IS Parade (?) that turns your twitter account into a parade. A parade in which your followers, follow you. It is a fun visualization to play with. I recorded a low-res sample below. They also have a strangely addictive abstract interactive visualization on their product homepage, located here.
Found via DATAVISUALIZATION.CH
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Tags: interactive visualization, interface, japan, KDDI, telecom companies, twitter, visualization |
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| Posted: 6/4/10 4:44 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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From left, Butts, Patterson, Venkatesh and Goldberg dissect social media from the vantage points of their individual fields.
From a CalIT2 Interface article which posted in full here.
Is the social media revolution real, or just hyperbole?
UC Irvine professors from four disciplines – humanities, business, social sciences and computer science – weigh in on this hot topic. They are David Goldberg, professor of comparative literature and director of the UC Humanities Research Institute; Alladi Venkatesh, professor of management and associate director of CRITO (The Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations); Carter Butts, associate professor of sociology and director of the Networks, Computation and Social Dynamics Lab; and Donald Patterson, assistant professor of informatics and director of LUCI (Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction).
Q. What are some of the negative implications?
Patterson: As social networks begin to encompass all of life, they bring with them many of the same problems that we have in real, or non-digital, life. I think the assumption that everyone on your social network is a “friend” will be tested. We’ll need to learn how to deal with the people who won’t stop talking, stand too close, creep us out, but whom we can’t just wholesale disconnect from because of social and professional obligations.
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Tags: Alladi Venkatesh, CalIT2, Carter Butts, David Goldberg, Donald J. Patterson, facebook, social networks, twitter |
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| Posted: 5/25/10 4:03 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Photo courtesy of paulworthington
Congratulations to Informatics Master’s Student Justin Tang and Informatics Faculty Member Don Patterson on having their paper, ‘Twitter, Sensors and UI: Robust Context Modeling for Interruption Management ‘ accepted to UMAP 2010.
Abstract: In this paper, we present the results of a two-month field study of fifteen people using a software tool designed to model changes in a user’s availability. The software uses status update messages, as well as sensors, to detect changes in context. When changes are identified using a novel Kullback-Leibler Divergence algorithm, users are prompted to broadcast their current contexts to their social networks. The user interface method by which the alert is delivered is evaluated in order to minimize the impact on the user’s work flow. By carefully coupling both algorithms and user interfaces, interruptions made by the software tool can be made valuable to the user.
Congratulations Justin and Don!
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Tags: Donald J. Patterson, HCI, interruption management, Justin Tang, paper published, physical sensors, twitter, UMAP 2010 |
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| Posted: 3/2/10 8:39 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Two sites that automate the process of removing yourself from the Internet
web 2.0 suicide machine
Web 2.0 suicide machine: “Tired of your Social Network?
“Liberate your newbie friends with a Web2.0 suicide! This machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego. The machine is just a metaphor for the website which moddr_ is hosting; the belly of the beast where the web2.0 suicide scripts are maintained. Our service currently runs with Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and LinkedIn! Commit NOW!”
seppukoo
seppukoo:”You are more than your virtual identity”
«Virtual life» is an – often – abused term used to describe the whole of one person online activities. But as media communications let our second/online/offline identities overflowing into real life – and vice-versa – the distinctions between the real and the virtual are becoming, more and more confused. Which is virtual? And where’s the real? Beyond all those questions only a fact remains: that our privacy, our profiles, our identities, our relationships, they are all – fake and/or real – entirely exploited for a sole purpose: to be sold as a product. But are those lives really worth to be experienced?”
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Tags: facebook, japan, LinkedIn, myspace, social networks, twitter |
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| Posted: 2/17/10 3:44 pm UTC by djp3 Add Your Comment | |
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“More a social statement than an actual utility for aspiring Colton Harris-Moore* copycats, a new site called Please Rob Me has popped up to expose the potential pratfalls of the geolocation craze: If you’re pushing a “check-in” from Gowalla, Brightkite, or Foursquare to a local restaurant out to your public Twitter stream, you’re broadcasting that you aren’t home. Which could be taken to mean that your home is ripe for burglary.”
Read more:
The dark side of geo: PleaseRobMe.com | The Social – CNET News
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Tags: BrightKite, foursquare, geolocation, Gowalla, mobile app, mobile phone, social networks, twitter |
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| Posted: 2/17/10 11:56 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Photo courtesy of flickr:HubSpot
Congratulations to Informatics undergraduate student Samuel J. Kaufman and Informatics Ph.D. student Judy Chen on having their paper, ‘Where We Twitter’ accepted to the CHI 2010—microblogging workshop.
“Users who enter new spaces, especially urban spaces, naturally explore. Increasingly, exploration is augmented by mobile, digital information systems such as mobile phone versions of Google Maps or Yelp. These system’s provide statistics, logistical information, and service reviews written for a general audience, but do not typically inform the user about the personalities of space occupants (the character and culture of a space), recent happenings and other kinds of local knowledge. The system described herein hopes to do just that–provide a novel method for the “colorful” understanding of places, drawing from newly-available corpora of geotagged tweets.”
Congratulations Sam and Judy!
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Tags: CHI, geolocation, Judy Chen, paper published, Sam Kaufman, twitter |
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| Posted: 2/2/10 8:04 am UTC by djp3 Add Your Comment | |
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