Month: December 2018
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Guest editing a special issue of Transactions on Social Computing
Dr. Luther is the lead guest editor for an upcoming special issue of the journal ACM Transactions on Social Computing. The theme of the special issue, “Negotiating Truth and Trust in Socio-Technical Systems“, emerged from the Designing Socio-Technical Systems of Truth workshop that Dr. Luther led at Virginia Tech in March 2018. The special issue…
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Paper accepted for CHI 2019
Congrats to Crowd Lab Ph.D. student Aditya Bharadwaj for his accepted paper at the upcoming CHI 2019 conference in Glasgow, Scotland, in May. The acceptance rate for this top-tier human-computer interaction conference is 24%. The paper, titled “Critter: Augmenting Creative Work with Dynamic Checklists, Automated Quality Assurance, and Contextual Reviewer Feedback“, was co-authored with colleagues…
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Two papers accepted for IUI 2019
Two members of the Crowd Lab each had a paper accepted for presentation at the upcoming IUI 2019 conference in Los Angeles, CA. The acceptance rate for this conference, which focuses on the intersection of human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence, was 25%. Crowd Lab Ph.D. student Vikram Mohanty will present “Photo Sleuth: Combining Human Expertise…
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Nai-Ching Wang successfully defends PhD dissertation
Nai-Ching Wang, a Ph.D. student advised by Dr. Luther, successfully defended his dissertation today. His dissertation is titled, “Supporting Historical Research and Education with Crowdsourced Analysis of Primary Sources”, and his committee members were Dr. Luther (chair), Ed Fox, Gang Wang, and Paul Quigley, with Matt Lease (UT Austin School of Information) as the external…
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Poster accepted for AGU 2018
Our research investigating the use of crowd workers to analyze satellite imagery of tree canopy coverage was accepted as a poster for the American Geophysical Union (AGU 2018) fall meeting in Washington, DC. The lead author is Forestry Ph.D. student Jill Derwin, with co-authors Valerie Thomas, Randolph Wynne, S. Seth Peery, John Coulston, Dr. Luther,…
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Photo Sleuth press in Slate, Smithsonian, and more
Our Civil War Photo Sleuth project got a burst of publicity in recent weeks, leading to hundreds of new site registrations and contributions. Here is a round-up of some highlights: Slate Magazine: Who’s Behind That Beard? Smithsonian Magazine: Facial Recognition Software Is Helping Identify Unknown Figures in Civil War Photographs Family Tree Magazine: Applying Facial…
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Article published in AI Magazine
Dr. Luther recently published a report about the GroupSight Workshop on Human Computation for Image and Video Analysis in AI Magazine. The workshop, held at the HCOMP 2017 conference in Quebec City, Canada, was co-organized by Dr. Luther, Danna Gurari, Genevieve Patterson, and Steve Branson. More information about the workshop can be found in a…