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Leveraging Community and Author Context to Explain the Performance and Bias of Text-Based Deception Detection Models
Galen Weld, Ellyn Ayton, Tim Althoff +1
Deceptive news posts shared in online communities can be detected with NLP models, and much recent research has focused on the development of such models. In this work, we use char…
Population-Scale Study of Human Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis and Implications
Jina Suh, Eric Horvitz, Ryen W. White +1
Most work to date on mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic is focused urgently on biomedicine and epidemiology. Yet, pandemic-related policy decisions cannot be made on health informati…
Goal-setting And Achievement In Activity Tracking Apps: A Case Study Of MyFitnessPal
Mitchell L. Gordon, Tim Althoff, Jure Leskovec
Activity tracking apps often make use of goals as one of their core motivational tools. There are two critical components to this tool: setting a goal, and subsequently achieving t…
I'll Be Back: On the Multiple Lives of Users of a Mobile Activity Tracking Application
Zhiyuan Lin, Tim Althoff, Jure Leskovec
Mobile health applications that track activities, such as exercise, sleep, and diet, are becoming widely used. While these activity tracking applications have the potential to impr…
How Gamification Affects Physical Activity: Large-scale Analysis of Walking Challenges in a Mobile Application
Ali Shameli, Tim Althoff, Amin Saberi +1
Gamification represents an effective way to incentivize user behavior across a number of computing applications. However, despite the fact that physical activity is essential for a…
Donor Retention in Online Crowdfunding Communities: A Case Study of DonorsChoose.org
Tim Althoff, Jure Leskovec
Online crowdfunding platforms like DonorsChoose.org and Kickstarter allow specific projects to get funded by targeted contributions from a large number of people. Critical for the…