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- research-articleMay 2024
Better Little People Pictures: Generative Creation of Demographically Diverse Anthropographics
CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 557, Pages 1–14https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3641957We explore the potential of generative AI text-to-image models to help designers efficiently craft unique, representative, and demographically diverse anthropographics that visualize data about people. Currently, creating data-driven iconic images to ...
- research-articleMarch 2024
Collecting, Analyzing, and Acting on Intersectional, Longitudinal Data and Pass/Fail/Withdraw Rates in Computing Courses
SIGCSE 2024: Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1Pages 909–915https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630806We present the Center for Inclusive Computing's data collection and visualization system, which enables computing departments to track and visualize their enrollment and course outcome data intersectionally and longitudinally. The system tracks the ...
- research-articleApril 2023
We are the Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Creating Demographically Diverse Anthropographics
CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 807, Pages 1–14https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581086Anthropographics are human-shaped visualizations that aim to emphasize the human importance of datasets and the people behind them. However, current anthropographics tend to employ homogeneous human shapes to encode data about diverse demographic ...
- research-articleDecember 2022
Clustering Indian districts based on multidimensional demographic and climate data
BuildSys '22: Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and TransportationPages 450–455https://doi.org/10.1145/3563357.3566146Urban districts are central to questions of sustainability, especially in a developing nation like India. India is divided into 28 states and 8 union territories, each of which has a number of districts. Usually, the policies in these districts are ...
- extended-abstractNovember 2022
When to Collect Sensitive Category Data? Public Sector Considerations For Balancing Privacy and Freedom from Discrimination in Automated Decision Systems
CSCW'22 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social ComputingPages 98–101https://doi.org/10.1145/3500868.3559460Automated Decision Systems (ADS) are being used to inform important decisions in government services. Concerns regarding discrimination in ADS have led to the rise of bias mitigation techniques, or data science practices that measure and adjust for ...
- research-articleAugust 2022
A Decade of Demographics in Computing Education Research: A Critical Review of Trends in Collection, Reporting, and Use
ICER '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research - Volume 1Pages 323–343https://doi.org/10.1145/3501385.3543967Computing education research (CER) has used demographic data to understand learners’ identities, backgrounds, and contexts for efforts such as culturally-responsive computing. Prior work indicates that failing to elucidate and critically engage with the ...
- research-articleJune 2022
Demographic-Reliant Algorithmic Fairness: Characterizing the Risks of Demographic Data Collection in the Pursuit of Fairness
FAccT '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and TransparencyPages 1709–1721https://doi.org/10.1145/3531146.3533226Most proposed algorithmic fairness techniques require access to demographic data in order to make performance comparisons and standardizations across groups, however this data is largely unavailable in practice, hindering the widespread adoption of ...
- research-articleMarch 2021
What We Can't Measure, We Can't Understand: Challenges to Demographic Data Procurement in the Pursuit of Fairness
FAccT '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and TransparencyPages 249–260https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445888As calls for fair and unbiased algorithmic systems increase, so too does the number of individuals working on algorithmic fairness in industry. However, these practitioners often do not have access to the demographic data they feel they need to detect ...
- research-articleMarch 2014
Personalized collaborative filtering: a neighborhood model based on contextual constraints
SAC '14: Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied ComputingPages 919–924https://doi.org/10.1145/2554850.2555017In this paper, we propose a recommender system approach which considers contextual information from users and items in order to improve the accuracy of a neighborhood-based collaborative filtering algorithm. One advantage of our model is the possibility ...
- research-articleNovember 2013
Hybrid recommenders: incorporating metadata awareness into latent factor models
WebMedia '13: Proceedings of the 19th Brazilian symposium on Multimedia and the webPages 317–324https://doi.org/10.1145/2526188.2526197This paper proposes a hybrid recommender algorithm which integrates a set of different user's inputs into a unified and generic latent factor model to improve prediction accuracy. The technique can exploit users' demographics, such as age, gender and ...
- articleDecember 2008
Identifying the effects of SVD and demographic data use on generalized collaborative filtering
International Journal of Computer Mathematics (IJOCM), Volume 85, Issue 12Pages 1741–1763https://doi.org/10.1080/00207160701598438The purpose of this paper is to examine how singular value decomposition (SVD) and demographic information can improve the performance of plain collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms. After a brief introduction to SVD, where the method is explained and ...
- ArticleAugust 1995
A Scalable Teleradiology Information System
Abstract: The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has launched a global teleradiology project to provide subspecialist consultation to remote regions with the intent to deliver higher quality health care and contain the rising cost of health ...