Publications

Multidimensional tie strength and economic development

The strength of social relations has been shown to affect an individual’s access to opportunities. To date, however, the correspondence …
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Predicting Meeting Success With Nuanced Emotions

While current meeting tools are able to capture key analytics (e.g., transcript and summarization), they do not often capture nuanced …
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GraphNLI: A Graph-based Natural Language Inference Model for Polarity Prediction in Online Debates

Online forums that allow participatory engagement between users have been transformative for public discussion of important issues. …
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Imagine a Walkable City: Physical activity and urban imageability across 19 major cities

Can the shape of a city promote physical activity? The question of why individuals engage in physical activity has been widely …
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The Role of Different Types of Conversations for Meeting Success

While current meeting tools are able to capture key analytics from both text and voice (e.g., meeting summarization), they do not often …
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Retrofitting Meetings for Psychological Safety

Meetings are the fuel of organizations productivity. At times, however, they are perceived as wasteful vaccums that deplete employee …
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How epidemic psychology works on Twitter: evolution of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the US

Disruptions resulting from an epidemic might often appear to amount to chaos but, in reality, can be understood in a systematic way …
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The Healthy States of America: Creating a Health Taxonomy with Social Media

Since the uptake of social media, researchers have mined online discussions to track the outbreak and evolution of specific diseases or …
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KAIROS: Talking Heads and Moving Bodies for Successful Meetings

Successful meetings create a safe environment for contribution; one that attendees feel engaged in and part of. Previous research has …
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Jane Jacobs in the Sky: Predicting Urban Vitality with Open Satellite Data

The presence of people in an urban area throughout the day – often called ‘urban vitality’ – is one of the …
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Ranking comment sorting policies in online debates

Online debates typically possess a large number of argumentative comments. Most readers who would like to see which comments are …
Young, A.P., Sagar Joglekar, Boschi, G., Sastry, N.
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MeetCues: Supporting Online Meetings Experience

The remote work ecosystem is transforming patterns of communication between teams and individuals located at distance. Particularly, …
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Humane Visual AI: Telling the Stories Behind a Medical Condition

A biological understanding is key for managing medical conditions, yet psychological and social aspects matter too. The main problem is …
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Analysing Meso and Macro conversation structures in an online suicide support forum

Platforms like Reddit and Twitter offer internet users an opportunity to talk about diverse issues, including those pertaining to …
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Who Has the Last Word? Understanding How to Sample Online Discussions

In online debates, as in offline ones, individual utterances or arguments support or attack each other, leading to some subset of …
Boschi, G., Young, A.P., Sagar Joglekar, Chiara Cammarota, Sastry, N.
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Characterising User Content on a Multi-lingual Social Network

Social media has been on the vanguard of political information diffusion in the 21st century. Most studies that look into …
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Stop Tracking Me Bro! Differential Tracking Of User Demographics On Hyper-partisan Websites

Websites with hyper-partisan, left or right-leaning focus offer content that is typically biased towards the expectations of their …
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FaceLift: a transparent deep learning framework to beautify urban scenes

In the area of computer vision, deep learning techniques haverecently been used to predict whether urban scenes are likely tobe …
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Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case

The Decentralised Web (DW) has recently seen a renewed momentum, with a number of DW platforms like Mastodon, PeerTube, and Hubzilla …
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Mapping and Visualizing Deep-Learning Urban Beautification

Information visualization has great potential to make sense of the increasing amount of data generated by complex machine-learning …
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How do online communities of people with long-term conditions function and evolve? Network analysis of the structure and dynamics of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation (BLF) online communities.

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Illuminating an ecosystem of partisan websites

This paper aims to shed light on alternative news media ecosys-tems that are believed to have influenced opinions and beliefs byfalse …
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Like at First Sight: Understanding User Engagement with the World of Microvideos

Several content-driven platforms have adopted the ‘micro video’ for-mat, a new form of short video that is constrained in duration, …
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Structure and dynamics of online patients’ communities: the case of Asthma UK and BLF online fora

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Robust transcoding resistant watermarking for H.264 standard

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An Innovative System for Remote and Automated Testing of Mobile Phone Applications

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