Publications

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.
Preprint PDF Project

MeetCues: Supporting Online Meetings Experience

The remote work ecosystem is transforming patterns of communication between teams and individuals located at distance. Particularly, …
Preprint Project

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 …
Preprint PDF Project

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 …
Preprint Project

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 …
Project Project Source Document

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 …
Preprint PDF Project

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 …
Project Source Document

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 …
Preprint Project

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 …
Project Source Document

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.

PDF Project Video Source Document

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 …
Preprint Dataset Project

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, …
Preprint Project Source Document

Structure and dynamics of online patients’ communities: the case of Asthma UK and BLF online fora

Project Source Document

Robust transcoding resistant watermarking for H.264 standard

PDF Project Source Document

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

PDF Project Source Document