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Mapping the Potential and Pitfalls of "Data Dividends" as a Means of Sharing the Profits of Artificial Intelligence
Nicholas Vincent, Yichun Li, Renee Zha +1
Identifying strategies to more broadly distribute the economic winnings of AI technologies is a growing priority in HCI and other fields. One idea gaining prominence centers on "da…
Not at Home on the Range: Peer Production and the Urban/Rural Divide
Isaac Johnson, Allen Yilun Lin, Toby Jia-Jun Li +4
Wikipedia articles about places, OpenStreetMap features, and other forms of peer-produced content have become critical sources of geographic knowledge for humans and intelligent te…
Measuring the Importance of User-Generated Content to Search Engines
Nicholas Vincent, Isaac Johnson, Patrick Sheehan +1
Search engines are some of the most popular and profitable intelligent technologies in existence. Recent research, however, has suggested that search engines may be surprisingly de…
Pharos: improving navigation instructions on smartwatches by including global landmarks
N. Wenig, D. Wenig, S. Ernst +3
Landmark-based navigation systems have proven benefits relative to traditional turn-by-turn systems that use street names and distances. However, one obstacle to the implementation…
The Tower of Babel Meets Web 2.0: User-Generated Content and its Applications in a Multilingual Context
B. Hecht, D. Gergle
This study explores language's fragmenting effect on user-generated content by examining the diversity of knowledge representations across 25 different Wikipedia language editions.…
Out of Site: Empowering a New Approach to Online Boycotts
H. Li, B. Alarcon, S. M. Espinosa +2
GrabYourWallet, #boycottNRA and other online boycott campaigns have attracted substantial public interest in recent months. However, a number of significant challenges are preventi…
SubwayPS: Towards Enabling Smartphone Positioning in Underground Public Transportation Systems
T. Stockx, B. Hecht, J. Schöning
Thanks to rapid advances in technologies like GPS and Wi-Fi positioning, smartphone users are able to determine their location almost everywhere they go. This is not true, however,…
Helping Computers Understand Geographically-Bound Activity Restrictions
M. Soll, P. Naumann, J. Schöning +2
The lack of certain types of geographic data prevents the development of location-aware technologies in a number of important domains. One such type of "unmapped" geographic data i…
Improving Interaction with Virtual Globes through Spatial Thinking: Helping Users Ask "Why?"
J. Schöning, B. Hecht, M. Raubal +3
Virtual globes have progressed from little-known technology to broadly popular software in a mere few years. We investigated this phenomenon through a survey and discovered that, w…
The Geography of Pokémon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement
Ashley Colley, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Allen Yilun Lin +10
The widespread popularity of Pokémon GO presents the first opportunity to observe the geographic effects of location-based gaming at scale. This paper reports the results of a mixe…