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How grit influences high school students’ academic performance and the mediation effect of academic self-efficacy and cognitive learning strategies

September 2023

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Mobility and Utility in Robot Mediated Interaction: An Interactive Workshop for the Identification of Use Cases and Affordances of Telepresence Robots

Eike Schneiders, Andriana Boudouraki, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Houda Elmimouni, Jens Emil Sloth Grønbæk, Sean Rintel, Swapna Joshi

Mobile HCI 2023 | September 2023

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The intimacy triple bind: Structural inequalities and relational labour in the influencer industry

Zoe Glatt

European Journal of Cultural Studies | August 2023, pp. 1-17

Microsoft Research Blog

Research Focus: Week of August 28, 2023

August 30, 2023

In this issue: An illusion of predictability in scientific results; Kathleen Sullivan named to Insider’s 30 under 40 in healthcare list; FiGURe: Simple and Efficient Unsupervised Node Representations with Filter Augmentations.

Microsoft Research Focus 23 | Week of August 14, 2023

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An illusion of predictability in scientific results: Even experts confuse inferential uncertainty and outcome variability

Sam Zhang, Patrick R. Heck, Michelle N. Meyer, Christopher F. Chabris, Daniel G. Goldstein, Jake M. Hofman

Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences | August 2023, Vol 120(33)

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Workplace Recommendation with Temporal Network Objectives

Kiran Tomlinson, Jennifer Neville, Longqi Yang, Mengting Wan, Cao Lu

2023 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining | August 2023

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Modeling to explore and challenge inherent assumptions when cultural norms have changed: a case study on left-handedness and life expectancy

Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Md Nasir, Avleen Bijral, S V Subramanian, Bill Weeks

Archives of Public Health | July 2023

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Poverty rate prediction using multi-modal survey and earth observation data

Simone Fobi Nsutezo, Manuel Cardona, Elliott Collins, Caleb Robinson, Anthony Ortiz, Tina Sederholm, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

COMPASS ’23: ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies | July 2023

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“There is a Bit of Grace Missing”: Understanding Non-use of Mobile Robotic Telepresence in a Global Technology Company

Andriana Boudouraki, Stuart Reeves, Joel Fischer, Sean Rintel

TAS 2023 | July 2023

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Fairness in Streaming Submodular Maximization over a Matroid Constraint

Marwa El Halabi, Federico Fusco, Ashkan Norouzi-Fard, Jakab Tardos, Jakub Tarnawski

ICML 2023 | June 2023