Remote Work and Well-Being
This video accompanies our accepted paper for the New Future of Work Symposium 2020. The paper is entitled “Remote Work and Well-Being” and is co-authored by Shamsi Iqbal, Jina Suh, Mary Czerwinski, Gloria Mark, Jaime…
Hope Speech and Help Speech: Surfacing Positivity Amidst Hate
Tackling online attacks targeting certain individuals, groups of people, or communities is a major modern-day web challenge. Research efforts in hate speech detection thus far have largely focused on identifying and subsequently filtering out negative…
An Eye Tracking Study of Web Search by People with and without Dyslexia
Video of Microsoft Research intern and UCSD Ph.D. student Srishti Palani presenting research on the topic of how dyslexia impacts search engine use. This research talk accompanies the article from SIGIR 2020 that can be…
Digital Transformation of SMBs in Africa
Small and Medium sized Businesses (SMBs) make up majority of employment in Africa (around 80%). Moreover, our data showed that the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic spurred the growth in the adoption and use of…
Project EPOCh: Extending Patient Outreach with Chat
Patient-centred care and good communication between patients and healthcare providers has been shown to improve medical adherence. However, it is costly and difficult to provide, especially in Global Health settings where patient volumes are high…