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Effects of Individual Differences in Blocking Workplace Distractions

Gloria Mark, Mary Czerwinski, Shamsi Iqbal

2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) | 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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Emotional Dialogue Generation using Image-Grounded Language Models

Bernd Huber, Daniel McDuff, Chris Brockett, Michel Galley, Bill Dolan

CHI 2018, April 21–26, 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada | April 2018

ISBN: 978-1-4503-5620-6

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Getting good VIBEs from your computer with Dr. Mary Czerwinski

April 18, 2018

Episode 20, April 18, 2018 – In a world where humans are increasingly interacting with AI systems, Dr. Mary Czerwinski, Principal Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research, believes emotions may be fundamental to our…

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Boosting Information Spread: An Algorithmic Approach

Yishi Lin, Wei Chen, John C. S. Lui

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems | April 2018, Vol 5(2): pp. 344-357

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A Game Theoretic Model for the Formation of Navigable Small-World Networks — the Tradeoff between Distance and Reciprocity

Zhi Yang, Wei Chen

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology | April 2018

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Running Out of Time: The Impact and Value of Flexibility in On-Demand Crowdwork

Ming Yin, Siddharth Suri, Mary L. Gray

The 36th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) | April 2018

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Regulating Feelings During Interpersonal Conflicts by Changing Voice Self-perception

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

CHI 2018 | April 2018

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When Psychology Meets Technology with Dr. Daniel McDuff

March 28, 2018

Episode 17, March 28, 2018 – Dr. McDuff talks about why we need computers to understand us, outlines the pros and cons of designing emotionally sentient agents, explains the technology behind CardioLens, a pair of…

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2018 EMEA Scholarships to Advance Compelling Research in Healthcare, AI, Future of Work

March 26, 2018

The Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme in EMEA awards scholarships to fund the most promising and groundbreaking computer science research by PhD students across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. We are extremely proud today…