“Mapping Instability: The Effects of the Pandemic on the Civic Life of a Small Town” was accepted to the Environments By Design: Health, Wellbeing And Place Conference 2022
Authors: Erica Dewitt, Zhiqiu Jiang, Mashrur Rashik, Kunjal Panchal, Mahmood Jasim, Fey Thurber, Cami Quinteros, Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar, and Pari Riahi
You can find the paper here.
“From Invisible to Visible: Impacts of Metadata in Communicative Data Visualization” was accepted to TVCG 2022
Authors: Alyxander Burns, Christiana Lee, Thai On, Cindy Xiong, Evan Peck, Narges Mahyar
You can find the paper here.
Mashrur Rashik was awarded the Jim Gray Scholarship in Computer Science – Congrats Mashrur!
Led by: Mahmood Jasim, Christopher Collins, Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar
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Supporting Serendipitous Discovery and Balanced Analysis of Unstructured Text with Interaction-Driven Metrics and Bias-Mitigating Suggestions
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In this study, we investigate how supporting serendipitous discovery and analysis of short free-form texts, such as product review can encourage readers to explore texts more comprehensively prior to decision-making. We propose two interventions — Exploration Metrics that help readers understand and track their exploration patterns through visual indicators and a Bias Mitigation Model that maximizes knowledge discovery by suggesting readers sentiment and semantically diverse reviews. We designed, developed, and evaluated a text analytics system called Serendyze, where we integrated these interventions. We asked 100 crowd workers to use Serendyze to make purchase decisions based on product reviews. Our evaluation suggests that exploration metrics enable readers to efficiently cover more reviews in a balanced way, and suggestions from the bias mitigation model influence readers to make confident data-driven decisions. We discuss the role of user agency and trust in text-level analysis systems and their applicability in domains beyond review exploration
If you are interested in working on or learning more about this project, please contact Mahmood Jasim at mjasim@cs.umass.edu