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20142026
most citedSONYC: A System for the Monitoring, Analysis and Mitigation of Urban Noise Pollution

36 citations · 100 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

24 papers

cs.CL2026

Clinician use of language models diverges from how the models are evaluated

Krithik Vishwanath, Haitong Lin, Anton Alyakin +19

Large language model (LLM) assistants are being deployed to clinicians across health systems, and judgments about their readiness rest largely on benchmark scores, most of them der…

cs.HC2026

Evaluating Smart Home Device User Responses to their (Un)Confirmed Privacy Expectations

Tania Khatun, Mahdieh Sheikh Rezaei, Danny Yuxing Huang +2

Users of smart home devices are often unaware of how their devices handle personal data. We examine how revealing these data practices influences user trust, satisfaction, and copi…

cs.HC2026

Comparing the Emotional Impact of Thematic Versus Episodic Framing in Visualization Text

Poorna Talkad Sukumar, Maurizio Porfiri, Oded Nov

Although textual framing in data visualizations is known to influence comprehension, recall, and perceptions of bias, its effects on viewers' emotional responses remain underexplor…

cs.HC2026★ 2 cited

The Impact of Response Latency and Task Type on Human-LLM Interaction and Perception

Felicia Fang-Yi Tan, Moritz A. Messerschmidt, Wen Yin +1

Responsiveness in large language model (LLM) applications is widely assumed to be critical, yet the impact of latency on user behavior and perception of output quality has not been…

cs.HC2026★ 1 cited

Studying the Separability of Visual Channel Pairs in Symbol Maps

Poorna Talkad Sukumar, Maurizio Porfiri, Oded Nov

Visualizations often encode multivariate data by mapping attributes to distinct visual channels such as color, size, or shape. The effectiveness of these encodings depends on separ…

cs.HC2026★ 3 cited

Investigating Writing Professionals' Relationships with Generative AI: How Combined Perceptions of Rivalry and Collaboration Shape Work Practices and Outcomes

Rama Adithya Varanasi, Oded Nov, Batia Mishan Wiesenfeld

This study investigates how professional writers' complex relationship with GenAI shapes their work practices and outcomes. Through a cross-sectional survey with writing profession…

cs.HC2026

Counting the Wait: Effects of Temporal Feedback on Downstream Task Performance and Perceived Wait-Time Experience during System-Imposed Delays

Felicia Fang-Yi Tan, Oded Nov

System-imposed wait times can significantly disrupt digital workflows, affecting user experience and task performance. Prior HCI research has examined how temporal feedback, such a…

cs.HC2025

Seeing Identity in Data: Can Anthropographics Uncover Racial Homophily in Emotional Responses?

Poorna Talkad Sukumar, Maurizio Porfiri, Oded Nov

Racial homophily refers to the tendency of individuals to associate with others of the same racial or ethnic background. A recent study found no evidence of racial homophily in res…

cs.HC2025★ 15 cited

AI Rivalry as a Craft: How Resisting and Embracing Generative AI Reshape Writing Professions

Rama Adithya Varanasi, Batia Mishan Wiesenfeld, Oded Nov

Generative AI (GAI) technologies are disrupting professional writing, challenging traditional practices. Recent studies explore GAI adoption experiences of creative practitioners,…

cs.HC2024

Connections Beyond Data: Exploring Homophily With Visualizations

Poorna Talkad Sukumar, Maurizio Porfiri, Oded Nov

Homophily refers to the tendency of individuals to associate with others who are similar to them in characteristics, such as, race, ethnicity, age, gender, or interests. In this pa…

cs.HC2024★ 4 cited

Personalizing Privacy Protection With Individuals' Regulatory Focus: Would You Preserve or Enhance Your Information Privacy?

Reza Ghaiumy Anaraky, Yao Li, Hichang Cho +4

In this study, we explore the effectiveness of persuasive messages endorsing the adoption of a privacy protection technology (IoT Inspector) tailored to individuals' regulatory foc…

cs.HC2023★ 4 cited

Putting ChatGPT's Medical Advice to the (Turing) Test

Oded Nov, Nina Singh, Devin Mann

Objective: Assess the feasibility of using ChatGPT or a similar AI-based chatbot for patient-provider communication. Participants: A US representative sample of 430 study participa…

cs.CY2022★ 1 cited

Think About the Stakeholders First! Towards an Algorithmic Transparency Playbook for Regulatory Compliance

Andrew Bell, Oded Nov, Julia Stoyanovich

Increasingly, laws are being proposed and passed by governments around the world to regulate Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems implemented into the public and private sectors. M…

cs.HC2021

An Exploration And Validation of Visual Factors in Understanding Classification Rule Sets

Jun Yuan, Oded Nov, Enrico Bertini

Rule sets are often used in Machine Learning (ML) as a way to communicate the model logic in settings where transparency and intelligibility are necessary. Rule sets are typically…

cs.GT2021

A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Competitive Editing in Wikipedia: Contributors' Effort to Influence Articles and the Community's Attempt to Ensure Neutrality

Santhanakrishnan Anand, Ofer Arazy, Narayan B. Mandayam +1

Peer production, such as the collaborative authoring of Wikipedia articles, involves both cooperation and competition between contributors, and we focus on the latter. As individua…

cs.HC2021★ 1 cited

Visualizing Rule Sets: Exploration and Validation of a Design Space

Jun Yuan, Oded Nov, Enrico Bertini

Rule sets are often used in Machine Learning (ML) as a way to communicate the model logic in settings where transparency and intelligibility are necessary. Rule sets are typically…

cs.HC2021

Interface Features and Users' Well-Being: Measuring the Sensitivity of Users' Well-Being to Resource Constraints and Feature Types

Oded Nov

Users increasingly face multiple interface features on one hand, and constraints on available resources (e.g., time, attention) on the other. Understanding the sensitivity of users…

cs.SD2020★ 31 cited

SONYC-UST-V2: An Urban Sound Tagging Dataset with Spatiotemporal Context

Mark Cartwright, Jason Cramer, Ana Elisa Mendez Mendez +9

We present SONYC-UST-V2, a dataset for urban sound tagging with spatiotemporal information. This dataset is aimed for the development and evaluation of machine listening systems fo…

cs.HC2020

Good for the Many or Best for the Few? A Dilemma in the Design of Algorithmic Advice

Graham Dove, Martina Balestra, Devin Mann +1

Applications in a range of domains, including route planning and well-being, offer advice based on the social information available in prior users' aggregated activity. When design…

cs.HC2020★ 1 cited

The Transformation of Patient-Clinician Relationships With AI-Based Medical Advice: A "Bring Your Own Algorithm" Era in Healthcare

Oded Nov, Yindalon Aphinyanaphongs, Yvonne W. Lui +5

One of the dramatic trends at the intersection of computing and healthcare has been patients' increased access to medical information, ranging from self-tracked physiological data…

cs.AI2019

Evaluation of a Recommender System for Assisting Novice Game Designers

Tiago Machado, Daniel Gopstein, Oded Nov +3

Game development is a complex task involving multiple disciplines and technologies. Developers and researchers alike have suggested that AI-driven game design assistants may improv…

cs.SD2018★ 36 cited

SONYC: A System for the Monitoring, Analysis and Mitigation of Urban Noise Pollution

Juan Pablo Bello, Claudio Silva, Oded Nov +5

We present the Sounds of New York City (SONYC) project, a smart cities initiative focused on developing a cyber-physical system for the monitoring, analysis and mitigation of urban…

cs.CY2015★ 1 cited

Using Interactive Information Labels to Assist Decision Making Under Uncertainty: The Case for Long-term Saving

Junius Gunaratne, Oded Nov

Product information labels can help users understand complex information leading them to make better decisions. One area where consumers are particularly prone to make costly decis…

cs.GT2014

A Game Theoretic Analysis of Collaboration in Wikipedia

S. Anand, Ofer Arazy, Narayan Mandayam +1

Peer production projects such as Wikipedia or open-source software development allow volunteers to collectively create knowledge based products. The inclusive nature of such projec…