We introduce UISTful, a system that turns reading activity into a collective portrait of a scholarly community. Readers explore a semantic globe of UIST papers and authors while the system records private reading traces that can be reviewed, reflected upon, curated, and published for others to replay. Inspired by the information flâneur, UISTful treats a reading trace as a camera through which readers frame and interpret what they read, casting reading as a creative and authorial process. Shared traces display the plurality of interpretations composed across the same scholarly landscape, while collective trace views reveal paths and concentrations of attention across the community, inviting UIST to see itself as an interactive system of papers, authors, readers, and their exchanges.
Climate change is a source of anxiety about the future. Understanding how people express themselves about climate change enables us to address such concerns. To study climate change expression on social media, we analyzed 200 TikTok videos tagged with #climatechange, identifying…
Matter seeks to resolve longstanding interoperability problems in the Internet of Things (IoT), yet little is known about how developers experience the standard in day to day work. This paper examines over 13,000 issues from the official Project CHIP GitHub repository to understa…
Live streaming platforms, as computer-mediated communication (CMC) systems, provide streamers with a range of tools, such as webcams, beauty filters, and stream titles, to shape their online personas in ways that either conform to or deviate from viewers' expectations. Drawing on…
Exploring similar nodes in attributed networks represents a key challenge in data mining. While recent representation learning methods embed networks into low-dimensional vectors, they often implicitly assume a uniform and continuous feature space. This paper proposes a visual an…
Introduction. Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) programs must document their scholars' research impact, but assembling each scholar's record by hand takes staff an estimated 15 hours and does not scale to a full cohort. An artificial intelligence (AI) agent could se…
Recent advances in AI have heightened scholars' and policy makers' concern with social influence and behavioral contagion in online communities. We conduct a field experiment on Reddit to investigate the extent to which online users are susceptible to positive behavioral stimuli…