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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The ACM CHI conference is the world's premiere conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, presenting a highly selective showcase of the very best advances across the disciplines of computer science, cognitive psychology, design, social science, human factors, artificial intelligence, graphics, visualization, multi-media design and other disciplines.
Georgia Tech, a Top Ten institution at CHI 2015, has accepted research coming from half a dozen labs across the GVU Center and which represents the innovative approaches to this complex discipline.
The 13 papers accepted into this year’s proceedings broadly cover a dynamic range of areas, including Family and Community, Social Media, Crowdsourcing, Interfaces, Privacy and Security, Design and Games.
The GVU Center Brown Bag talk gives a preview of these selected papers from this year’s conference.
Presenter: Catherine Grevet
Title: Piggyback Prototyping: Using Existing, Large-Scale Social
Computing Systems to Prototype New Ones
Authors: Catherine Grevet, Eric Gilbert
Type: Paper
Presenter: Christina Masden
Title: Understanding the Role of Community in Online Dating
Authors: Christina Masden, W. Keith Edwards
Type: Paper
Presenter: Jessica Pater
Title: This Digital Life: A Neighborhood-Based Study of Adolescents’
Lives Online
Authors: Jessica Pater, Andrew Miller, Beth Mynatt
Type: Paper
Presenter: Edison Thomaz
Title: Barriers and Negative Nudges: Exploring Challenges in Food
Journaling
Authors: Felicia Cordeiro, Daniel A. Epstein, Edison Thomaz, Elizabeth
Bales, Arvind K. Jagannathan, Gregory D. Abowd, James Fogarty
Type: Note
