Category: Service
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Serving on CSCW 2019 and IUI 2020 committees
Two Crowd Lab members have accepted new professional service roles to help organize upcoming conferences. Congratulations to postdoc Jake Thebault-Spieker for accepting an invitation to serve as CSCW 2019 Proceedings and Publications Co-Chair, and Ph.D. student Tianyi Li for accepting an invitation to serve as IUI 2020 Posters/Demos Chair.
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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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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…
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Workshop on Designing Socio-Technical Systems of Truth
Dr. Luther chaired the “Designing Socio-Technical Systems of Truth” workshop at Virginia Tech on March 1-2, 2018. The workshop brought together over 50 faculty, student, and staff attendees to discuss the role of social technologies in promoting truth and preventing misinformation. Computer Science, History, Sociology, Communication, and Science and Technology Studies were just some of…
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Serving as papers co-chair for ACM Creativity & Cognition 2019
Dr. Luther will serve as technical papers co-chair, with Dr. Ali Mazalek (Ryerson University), of ACM Creativity & Cognition 2019, to be held in San Diego, CA, and co-located with DIS 2019.
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Second GroupSight workshop at HCOMP 2017
Dr. Luther, along with Danna Gurari (UT Austin), Genevieve Patterson (Brown University and Microsoft Research New England), and Steve Branson (Caltch), co-organized the second GroupSight Workshop on Human Computation for Image and Video Analysis at HCOMP 2017. The workshop featured two keynote speakers, Meredith Ringel Morris (Microsoft Research) and Walter Lasecki (University of Michigan), along…
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Serving as program co-chair for ACM Collective Intelligence 2018
Dr. Luther accepted an invitation to serve as program co-chair for ACM Collective Intelligence 2018, to be held July 7-8, 2018 in Zurich, Switzerland, and co-located with HCOMP 2018.
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Held transcribeathon at Blacksburg Public Library
Dr. Luther and Dr. Paul Quigley hosted a Fourth of July transcribeathon at Blacksburg Public Library to coincide with Independence Day weekend. Ph.D. candidate Nai-Ching Wang and computer science major Liyan Li, both Crowd Lab members, were also on hand to help new users from the local community get started with our Incite software and…
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Held reception for Mapping the Fourth exhibit
We held a well-attended reception at VT’s Newman Library for the opening of our exhibit for Mapping the Fourth of July in the Civil War Era. The exhibit, designed by Scott Fralin and his talented team at VT University Libraries, featured a kiosk to try our Incite software, colorful full-size panels and 3D elements showing…
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Led Creativity & Cognition 2017 Graduate Student Symposium in Singapore
After much preparation, the Creativity & Cognition 2017 Graduate Student Symposium took place on June 27. The event was held at the National Gallery of Singapore. Dr. Luther and Dr. Elizabeth Churchill of Google co-chaired the event. Dr. Luther had to video conference in using Google Hangouts (see photo above) due to flight problems, but…