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Living, Learning and Creating with Social Robots

May 29, 2018 | Cynthia Breazeal

Social robots are designed to interact with people in an interpersonal way, engaging and supporting collaborative social and emotive behavior for beneficial outcomes. In a time where citizens are beginning to live with intelligent machines…

Living, Learning and Creating with Social Robots

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Liberation Through Radical Decentralization

Vitalik Buterin, E. Glen Weyl

Medium | May 2018

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Ethics and Diversity in AI

May 17, 2018 | Tess Posner

Artificial intelligence is powering the fourth industrial revolution and has been called the “new electricity.” The global economic impact of AI applications is expected to reach $2.95 trillion by 2025, and we’re already seeing AI…

Ethics and Diversity in AI

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From Internet Access to Internet Skills: Digital Inequality among Older Adults

Eszter Hargittai, Anne Marie Piper, Meredith Ringel Morris

Universal Access in Information Society | May 2018, pp. 1-10

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Quadratic voting: How mechanism design can radicalize democracy

Steven P. Lalley, E. Glen Weyl

AEA Papers and Proceedings | May 2018

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Performing a Vanilla Self: Respectability Politics, Social Class, and the Digital World

Mikaela Pitcan, Alice E. Marwick, danah boyd

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication | April 2018, Vol 23(3): pp. 163-179

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Measuring Employment Demand Using Internet Search Data

Stevie Chancellor, Scott Counts

2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) | April 2018

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PocketSkills: A Conversational Mobile Web App to Support Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

Jessica Schoeder, Chelsey Wilks, Kael Rowan, Arturo Toledo, Ann Paradiso, Mary Czerwinski, Gloria Mark, Marsha M. Linehan

In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18) | April 2018

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Regulating Feelings During Interpersonal Conflicts by Changing Voice Self-perception

Jean Costa, Malte F. Jung, Mary Czerwinski, Francois Guimbretiere, Trinh Le, Tanzeem Choudhury

CHI 2018 | April 2018

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Prayana: Intermediated Financial Management in Resource-Constrained Settings

Apurv Mehra, Srihari Hulikal Muralidhar, Sambhav Satija, Anupama Dhareshwar, Jacki O'Neill

CHI 2018 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2018

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