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20142023
most citedWho Will Retweet This? Automatically Identifying and Engaging Strangers on Twitter to Spread Information

45 citations · 80 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.HC2023★ 3 cited

Screen Correspondence: Mapping Interchangeable Elements between UIs

Jason Wu, Amanda Swearngin, Xiaoyi Zhang +2

Understanding user interface (UI) functionality is a useful yet challenging task for both machines and people. In this paper, we investigate a machine learning approach for screen…

cs.HC2022

Reflow: Automatically Improving Touch Interactions in Mobile Applications through Pixel-based Refinements

Jason Wu, Titus Barik, Xiaoyi Zhang +3

Touch is the primary way that users interact with smartphones. However, building mobile user interfaces where touch interactions work well for all users is a difficult problem, bec…

cs.HC2021★ 3 cited

Screen Recognition: Creating Accessibility Metadata for Mobile Applications from Pixels

Xiaoyi Zhang, Lilian de Greef, Amanda Swearngin +9

Many accessibility features available on mobile platforms require applications (apps) to provide complete and accurate metadata describing user interface (UI) components. Unfortuna…

cs.HC2018★ 3 cited

A Computational Method for Evaluating UI Patterns

Bardia Doosti, Tao Dong, Biplab Deka +1

UI design languages, such as Google's Material Design, make applications both easier to develop and easier to learn by providing a set of standard UI components. Nonetheless, it is…

cs.SI2014

Recommending Targeted Strangers from Whom to Solicit Information on Social Media

Jalal Mahmud, Michelle X. Zhou, Nimrod Megiddo +2

We present an intelligent, crowd-powered information collection system that automatically identifies and asks target-ed strangers on Twitter for desired information (e.g., cur-rent…

cs.SI2014★ 45 cited

Who Will Retweet This? Automatically Identifying and Engaging Strangers on Twitter to Spread Information

Kyumin Lee, Jalal Mahmud, Jilin Chen +2

There has been much effort on studying how social media sites, such as Twitter, help propagate information in different situations, including spreading alerts and SOS messages in a…

cs.SI2014★ 7 cited

Optimizing The Selection of Strangers To Answer Questions in Social Media

Jalal Mahmud, Michelle Zhou, Nimrod Megiddo +2

Millions of people express themselves on public social media, such as Twitter. Through their posts, these people may reveal themselves as potentially valuable sources of informatio…

cs.SI2014★ 6 cited

Home Location Identification of Twitter Users

Jalal Mahmud, Jeffrey Nichols, Clemens Drews

We present a new algorithm for inferring the home location of Twitter users at different granularities, including city, state, time zone or geographic region, using the content of…

cs.SI2014★ 13 cited

Why Are You More Engaged? Predicting Social Engagement from Word Use

Jalal Mahmud, Jilin Chen, Jeffrey Nichols

We present a study to analyze how word use can predict social engagement behaviors such as replies and retweets in Twitter. We compute psycholinguistic category scores from word us…