Minhnhut Thanh Vo will receive the 2012 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. Only one ICS student receives this award each year. Minhnhut works as an undergraduate research assistant with Lynn Dombrowski, creating web-based applications dealing with issues of food insecurity. Congratulations to Minhnhut Thanh Vo!
Dr. Hayes is the newest Fellow to join CCREC (The University of California’s Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California). Here is an excerpt about the CCREC organization: “a multi/transdisciplinary and collaborative effort to address the state’s interconnected crises in the economy, education, employment, environment, health, housing, and nutrition. These crises intensify inequities, threaten […]
Informatics recently hosted it’s annual Rectuiment Welcoming Weekend event at Aliso Beach. Thanks to Helen He (a prospective recruit) for sharing some delightful photos from the event. More photos can be seen at the Luci blog.
Jed Brubaker’s recently published ICWSM paper was highlighted in the ReadWrite Web Article, “A Life Lived Online: How We Talk About Death on Social Media”. Here’s an excerpt from the article: “Rather than take an obvious, trendy turn toward Facebook, the study looks at MySpace users, many of whom died young. Using a coding system, […]
Jed Brubaker’s work was highlighted in ReadWriteWeb’s article ‘”I Wanna Live Forever,” or How We Die on Social Networks’, alongside other work highlighting the ways in which death is experienced on different social networking sites, including LinkedIn and Twitter. Technorati, also highlighted Jed’s work in their article “Over 30 Million Accounts on Facebook Belong to […]
STAR Group members will be presenting a paper at the ICWSM 2012 conference. Brubaker, J. R., Kivran-Swaine, F., Taber, L., and Hayes, G. R. (2012). Grief-Stricken in a Crowd: The language of bereavement and distress in social media. Proc ICWSM-12. Dublin, Ireland. June 4-8, 2012. Congratulations to the authors! We hope to see you all […]
STAR group members will be presenting five papers at CHI this year: Dombrowski, L., Voida, A., Hayes, G.R., Mazmanian, M. (2012). The Labor Practices of Service Mediation: A Study of the Work Practices of Food Assistance Outreach. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012). Austin, Texas (May 5-10, 2012). […]
Congratulations to Jed Brubaker on advancing to Ph.D. candidacy on February 29, 2012. Jed presented his work on Identity, Post-mortem social networking, and a framework for social, spatial, and temporal expansions on social networking sites. Jed’s committee was comprised of Drs. Gillian Hayes, Melissa Mazmanian, Paul Dourish, Geoffrey Bowker, and Martha Feldman. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Meg Cramer on advancing to Ph.D. candidacy in the Fall quarter of 2011! Meg presented her work on the tools and technology practices in elementary classrooms and designing to support reflection in learning. Meg’s committee was comprised of Drs. Gillian Hayes, Melissa Mazmanian, Bill Tomlinson, Mimi Ito, and Beth Van Es. Congratulations!
Congratulations to David Nguyen, STAR’s first PhD graduate as he has just accepted an offer from Nokia Research Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale, CA as a Senior Researcher. Congratulations David!