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Technical Perspective: A Rare Glimpse of Tracking Fake Reviews
"Leveraging Social Media to Buy Fake Reviews," by Sherry He et al., represents a breakthrough in our empirical understanding of fake reviews on Amazon.
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Leveraging Social Media to Buy Fake Reviews
We study the market for fake product reviews on Amazon.com.
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Technical Perspective: Pandemics, Remote Work, and Accessibility
"Mixed Abilities and Varied Experiences: A Group Autoethnography of a Virtual Summer Internship," by Kelly Mack et al., provides guidance on how to make remote...
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Mixed Abilities and Varied Experiences: A Group Autoethnography of a Virtual Summer Internship
Interns, full-time members, and affiliates of a Microsoft Research team focused on accessibility report on the experiences of virtual interns in 2020 navigating...
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Technical Perspective: The Impact of Auditing for Algorithmic Bias
"Actionable Auditing Revisited," by Inioluwa Deborah Raji and Joy Buolamwini, examines how companies producing commercial facial classification software responded...
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Actionable Auditing Revisited: Investigating the Impact of Publicly Naming Biased Performance Results of Commercial AI Products
This paper investigates the commercial impact of Gender Shades, the first algorithmic audit of gender- and skin-type performance disparities in commercial facial...
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Technical Perspective: Exploring Cognitive Bias 'In the Wild'
The authors of "Cognitive Biases in Software Development" rightly highlight the need for situated studies that examine cognitive bias 'in the wild' during software...
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Cognitive Biases in Software Development
We conducted a two-part field study to examine the extent to which cognitive biases occur, the consequences of these biases on developer behavior, and the practices...
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Technical Perspective: Personalized Recommendation of PoIs to People with Autism
"Supporting People with Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Exploration of PoIs" is an example of work that takes seriously the task of supporting a small group that...
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Supporting People with Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Exploration of PoIs: An Inclusive Recommender System
We propose a novel Top-N recommendation model that combines information about an autistic user's idiosyncratic aversions with her/his preferences in a personalized...
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Technical Perspective: Liquid Testing Using Built-in Phone Sensors
"Liquid Testing with Your Smartphone," by Shichao Yue and Dina Katabi, proposes a novel technique for determining the surface tension of a liquid by leveraging...
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Liquid Testing with Your Smartphone
We show a simple and accurate approach to measuring surface tension that's available to anyone with a smartphone.
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Technical Perspective: eBP Rides the Third Wave of Mobile Health
The automated blood pressure wearable system described in "eBP," by Nam Bui et al., is a sterling example of the third wave of mobile health tech to fill the preventative...
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eBP: An Ear-Worn Device for Frequent and Comfortable Blood Pressure Monitoring
We developed eBP to measure blood pressure from inside a user's ear aiming to minimize the measurement's impact on normal activities while maximizing its comfort...
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Technical Perspective: Is There a Geek Gene?
"Evidence that Computer Science Grades Are Not Bimodal" uses empirical methods to determine if belief in innate differences may explain why CS teachers see a bimodality...
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Evidence That Computer Science Grades Are Not Bimodal
There is a common belief that grades in computer science courses are bimodal. We devised a psychology experiment to understand why CS educators hold this belief...
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Technical Perspective: From Virtual Worlds to Digital Fabrication
The authors of "OpenFab" propose to revisit the processing pipeline that turns a 3D model into machine instructions in light of the solutions developed in computer...
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OpenFab: A Programmable Pipeline for Multimaterial Fabrication
We present OpenFab, a programmable pipeline for synthesis of multimaterial 3D printed objects that is inspired by RenderMan and modern GPU pipelines.
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Technical Perspective: Attacking Cryptographic Key Exchange with Precomputation
"Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice," by David Adrian et al., illustrates the importance of taking preprocessing attacks into account...
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