5 papers
AI for Trustworthiness! Credible User Identification on Social Web for Disaster Response Agencies
Rahul Pandey, Hemant Purohit, Jennifer Chan +1
Although social media provides a vibrant platform to discuss real-world events, the quantity of information generated can overwhelm decision making based on that information. By be…
#ILookLikeAnEngineer: Using Social Media Based Hashtag Activism Campaigns as a Lens to Better Understand Engineering Diversity Issues
Aqdas Malik, Aditya Johri, Rajat Handa +2
Each year, significant investment of time and resources is made to improve diversity within engineering across a range of federal and state agencies, private/not-for-profit organiz…
Real-Time Inference of User Types to Assist with More Inclusive Social Media Activism Campaigns
Habib Karbasian, Hemant Purohit, Rajat Handa +2
Social media provides a mechanism for people to engage with social causes across a range of issues. It also provides a strategic tool to those looking to advance a cause to exchang…
How Diverse Users and Activities Trigger Connective Action via Social Media: Lessons from the Twitter Hashtag Campaign #ILookLikeAnEngineer
Aditya Johri, Habib Karbasian, Aqdas Malik +2
We present a study that examines how a social media activism campaign aimed at improving gender diversity within engineering gained and maintained momentum in its early period. We…
Predicting Performance on MOOC Assessments using Multi-Regression Models
Zhiyun Ren, Huzefa Rangwala, Aditya Johri
The past few years has seen the rapid growth of data min- ing approaches for the analysis of data obtained from Mas- sive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The objectives of this study…