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Jan. 22, 2018

Alexis Hiniker had several papers accepted for publication:

  • “Mindless Scrolling and Micro Escapes. Why is Smartphone Use Sometimes so Meaningless?” will appear in Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies along with Kai Lukoff, Cissy Yu, and Julie Kientz.
  • “Coco’s Videos: An Empirical Investigation of Video-Player Design Features and Children's Media Use” will appear in Proceedings of the 36th annual ACM conference on human factors in computing systems along with Sharon Heung, Ray Hong and Julie Kientz.
  • “Let's Play! Digital and Analog Play Between Preschoolers and Parents” will appear in Proceedings of the 36th annual ACM conference on human factors in computing systems along with Bongshin Lee, Julie Kientz and Jenny Radesky.

Annuska Zolyomi’s paper titled, “Values, Identity, and Social Translucence: Neurodiverse Student Teams in Higher Education,” was accepted to ACM CHI 2018 along with Anne Spencer Ross, Arpita Bhattacharya, Lauren Milne, and Sean Munson.

Ivette Bayo Urban has lots to share:

  • The Public Philosophy Journal accepted several pieces of her public scholarship, including one on Indigenous Knowledge titled, "Unpacking 'Beyond Territorial Acknowledgements'".
  • She was invited to participate in the Public Philosophy Journal Collaborative Writing Workshop. This fully funded workshop included travel expenses and accommodations.
  • The 5th Biennial Critical Code Studies Working Group (CCSWG) Online invited her as a participant to its January 15-February 5, 2018 group online. CCSWG is the major online think tank for Critical Code Studies. Ivette will take any code segment, piece of software, and ask: “How would you UNPACK this (explain it) for a 5 year old?” Guest weekly leaders include: John Bell, Evan Buswell, Jessica Johnson, Elizabeth Losh, Judy Malloy, Mark Anthony Neal, and Margaret Rhee.

Quinn DuPont and Isabel Pedersen had their article, Tracking the Telepathic Sublime as a Phenomenon in a Digital Humanities Archive, published in Digital Humanities Quarterly.

Here’s the latest from Katie Davis:

  • Along with Mega Subramaniam, Ligaya Scaff, and Saba Kawas, ConnectedLib had the paper “Using technology to support equity and inclusion in youth library programming: Current practices and future opportunities” accepted to The Library Quarterly.

Jason Yip has paper and conference acceptances to share:

  • Along with his research group he had the following three full papers accepted to SIGCHI:
  1. “Empowering families facing English literacy challenges to jointly engage in computer programming” in Proceedings of SIGCHI Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018) along with R. Banerjee, L. Liu, K. Sobel, Caroline Pitt., Kung Jin Lee, M. Wang, S. Chen, L. Davison, Andy Ko, and Z. Popovič.
  2. “Science Everywhere: Designing public, tangible displays to connect youth learning across settings” in Proceedings of SIGCHI Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018) along with J. Ahn, T. Clegg, E. Bonsignore, D. Pauw, L. Cabrera, K. Hernly, Caroline Pitt, K. Mills, A. Salazar, D. Griffing, J. Rick, & R. Marr. (Jason was one of the first authors on this paper).
  3. “Using co-design to examine how children conceptualize intelligent interfaces” in Proceedings of SIGCHI Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018) along with J. Woodward, Z. McFadden, N. Shiver, A. Ben-hayon & L. Anthony.
  • His Search and Brokering project received acceptances for "Children as informal health advocates: Implications of intergenerational online information seeking for communication privacy management" to the following two conferences:
  1. International Communication Association
  2. Kentucky Conference on Health Communication

Finally, Ivette Bayo Urban and Annie Searle will join forces for a special iSchool Diversity Power Lunch on Thursday, January 25th in MGH258 at noon. Their topic is “Information Ethics: Leadership and Responsibility in the Information Age.” In the talk they will explore Information Equity from a risk management, forward-looking, strategic, business intelligence perspective.