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Meeting (the) Pandemic

From March in 2020 Microsoft employees entered a prolonged period of mandatory working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We wondered what would happen to employees’ effectiveness and collegiality as all meetings went remote.…

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KDD 2020 TrueFact Workshop: Making a Credible Web for Tomorrow

August 24, 2020 | Virtual/Online

The second international TrueFact Workshop: Making a Credible Web for Tomorrow will provide a forum where researchers and practitioners from academia, government and industry can share insights and identify new challenges and opportunities in resolving…

Publication

Learning Personalized Models of Human Behavior in Chess

Reid McIlroy-Young, Russell Wang, Siddhartha Sen, Jon Kleinberg, Ashton Anderson

August 2020

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Interpersonal Collaboration to Support Digitally Mediated Gig Workers’ Well-being in Pre- and Post-Pandemic Times

Hao-Chuan Wang, Chuang-Wen You, Chien-Wen Yuan, Nanyi Bi, Fu-Yin Cherng

August 2020

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Move, Collaborate, and Iterate: Improving the Work from Home Experience

Luke Haliburton, Albrecht Schmidt

August 2020

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Pandemic-Informed Proxemics: Working Environment Shifts Resulting from COVID-19

Caitlin E. McDonald

August 2020

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Seating preference analysis for hybrid workplaces

Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman, Shaw Kudo, Tim Rawling, Yongli Ren, Flora D. Salim

August 2020

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Overly Immersed: Understanding the Two Sides of Flow and their Implications for Mediated Work Environments

Giang V. Pham

August 2020

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Work-From-Anywhere: The Productivity Effects of Geographic Flexibility

Prithwiraj Choudhury, Cirrus Foroughi, Barbara Larson

August 2020

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The future of work and wellbeing: A preliminary report from a series of conversations

Andrew L. Kun, Orit Shaer, Raffaella Sadun, Linda Ng Boyle, John D. Lee

August 2020