5 papers
"It Feels Like Being Locked in A Cage": Understanding Blind or Low Vision Streamers' Perceptions of Content Curation Algorithms
Ethan Z. Rong, Mo Morgana Zhou, Zhicong Lu +1
Blind or low vision (BLV) people were recently reported to be live streamers on the online platforms that employed content curation algorithms. Recent research uncovered algorithm…
Beyond Virtual Bazaar: How Social Commerce Promotes Inclusivity for the Traditionally Underserved Community in Chinese Developing Regions
Zhilong Chen, Hancheng Cao, Xiaochong Lan +2
The disadvantaged population is often underserved and marginalized in technology engagement: prior works show they are generally more reluctant and experience more barriers in adop…
Automatic removal of false image stars in disk-resolved images of the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem
Qingfeng Zhang, Zhicong Lu, Xiaomei Zhou +5
Taking a large amount of images, the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) has been routinely used in astrometry. In ISS images, disk-resolved objects often lead to false detecti…
Tag2Vec: Learning Tag Representations in Tag Networks
Junshan Wang, Zhicong Lu, Guojie Song +3
Network embedding is a method to learn low-dimensional representation vectors for nodes in complex networks. In real networks, nodes may have multiple tags but existing methods ign…
You Watch, You Give, and You Engage: A Study of Live Streaming Practices in China
Zhicong Lu, Haijun Xia, Seongkook Heo +1
Despite gaining traction in North America, live streaming has not reached the popularity it has in China, where livestreaming has a tremendous impact on the social behaviors of use…