Congratulations to Misa Maruyama, who successfully defended her dissertation, Using Social Media to Learn about and Discuss a Civic Broadcast: Interaction, Community and Cognitive Elaboration, today. Good job!
Category Archives: Papers & Presentations
Tay’s Bad Day
Microsoft released a social chatbot, Tay, which was supposed to learn how to be chatty by interacting with people on the Internet. Instead, it was led frighteningly astray by trolls and had to be put down after one day. Scott ruminates about it in Tay’s Bad Day on medium.com.
HICHI Study Highlighted in Journalist’s Resource
Journalist’s Resource, a project of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center and the Carnegie-Knight Initiative, highlighted a HICHI Lab article in their December 3 post: “How Facebook influences Millennials’ politics.“
Congratulations to authors Sara Douglas, Roxanne Raine, Mara Maruyama, Bryan Semaan, and Scott Robertson.
Nurit Kirshenbaum Wins at UIST
Congratulations to Nurit Kirshenbaum who won the Best Software Innovation award in the Student Innovation Contest at the 2015 ACM Conference on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) Symposium in Charlotte, NC. She demonstrated Show Flow, a software tool for creating non-linear animatronic puppet shows.
Information Polity Publication
Congratulations to lab members Sara Douglas, Roxanne Raine, and Misa Maruyama, and lab alumnus Bryan Semaan, on our latest publication:
Sara Douglas, Roxanne B Raine, Mara Maruyama, Bryan Semaan, Scott P Robertson. 2015. Community matters: How young adults use Facebook to evaluate political candidates. Information Polity 20 (2, 3), 135-150
http://content.iospress.com/articles/information-polity/ip362
HICHI at CSST 2015
Blake Vilas Wins Best UROP Presentation
Blake Vilas wins Best Presentation at the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Fall Forum for his research: “3D Printed Prosthetic Hands Project in Papua New Guinea”
CHI 2015 Best Paper Award!
Congratulations to Bryan Semaan, Heather Faucett, Scott Robertson, Misa Maruyama and Sara Douglas on a CHI 2015 Best Paper Award for “Designing Political Deliberation Environments to Support Interactions in the Public Sphere”!
http://chi2015.acm.org/program/full-schedule/?id=pn1458#focus
Keynote at the Copenhagen Seminar on Computational Social Science
Scott Robertson will deliver the keynote address at the 2014 Copenhagen Seminar on Computational Social Science. The keynote title is “The Core of Data Science Is Human Science.” The seminar takes place on Dec. 4, 2014 at Copenhagen Business School. Other talks are by Sune Lehman, Luca Rossi, Michael Carl, Daniel Hardt, Sean Goggins, Nicolai Pogrebnyakov, and (HICHI alum) Ravi Vatrapu.
Misa Maruyama at CABS doctoral consortium
Last week, Misa Maruyama discussed ideas for her doctoral work on “co-screening” at CABS 2014 (Collaboration Across Boundaries) in Kyoto, Japan.