Rolf Hapel, the iSchool’s Distinguished Practitioner In Residence (DPIR) is speaking at Computers in Libraries 2019. With more than 1,100 participants, it is the largest conference of its kind. Rolf will speak on three different program points and topics:
- Design, Smart Communities & Engagement
- Leader-to-Leader Panel on Strategies & Practices
- Distinctive Positioning of the Libraries for the Future.
The conference will take place in Arlington, Virginia from March 26th to 28th.
Wanda Pratt had the following papers accepted to Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19).
- “People Who Can Take It”: How Women Wikipedians Negotiate and Navigate Safety. Amanda Menking, Ingrid Erickson, and Wanda Pratt.
- Beyond the Patient Portal: Supporting Needs of Hospitalized Patients. Shefali Haldar, Sonali R. Mishra, Maher Khelifi, Ari H Pollack, and Wanda Pratt.
Wanda Pratt also had two original papers and one research highlight accepted to the pre-CHI symposium for the Workgroup on Interactive Systems in Healthcare:
- Eavesdropping: An Information Source for Inpatients. Erin Beneteau, Shefali Haldar, Sonali Mishra, and Wanda Pratt.
- Lessons Learned from Deploying a Patient-Facing Technology Probe at a Pediatric and Adult Hospital. Shefali Haldar, Ari H Pollack and Wanda Pratt.
- Must We Bust the Trust? Understanding How the Clinician-Patient Relationship Influences Patient Engagement in Safety. Sonali Mishra, Shefali Haldar, Maher Khelifi, Ari Pollack and Wanda Pratt. “
Alexis Hiniker, Jon Froehlich, Mingrui Ray Zhang, and Erin Beneteau earned a best paper award at CHI '19 for the paper, Anchored Audio Sampling: A Seamless Method for Exploring Children’s Thoughts During Deployment Studies.
Jaime Snyder will present the following papers at the Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19):
- Visually Encoding the Lived Experience of Bipolar Disorder. Jaime Snyder, Elizabeth Murnane, Caitie Lustig, and Stephen Voida.
- Interpretive Impacts of Text Visualization: Mitigating Political Framing Effects. Eric P. S. Baumer, Jaime Snyder, and Geraldine Gay.
Anna Lauren Hoffmann gave a talk as part of the University of San Francisco's Global Women's Rights Forum. She was part of a featured panel on "Feminism in the Age of Big Data: Towards an Intersectional Data Justice," alongside Niloufar Salehi and Tamara Kneese.
Anna Lauren Hoffmann will give an invited lecture as part of the launch of the University of Michigan's new Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC). The lecture is part of a series on The Ethics and Politics of AI, which is supported by the University of Michigan School of Information, Institute for Social Research, and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. The lecture will take place April 22nd.
Michelle Martin was quoted in The Atlantic Magazine’s article How The Very Hungry Caterpillar Became a Classic.
Jevin West:
- Wired.com quoted him in its article Researchers Built an ‘Online Lie Detector.’ Honestly, That Could Be a Problem.
- BYU Radio interviewed him for the episode Calling Bull, Violins, Blue Zones, Social Media on its show Constant Wonder.
- The CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corporation) interviewed him, along with Carl Bergstrom, for the episode Deepfakes, BS and the end of reality on its show Spark 428.