Category: Conference Paper

Paper accepted at the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) describing how individuals negotiate the boundaries of confirmation bias based on a reading and analysis of news articles and comments across left-leaning and right-leaning sources. With David Murungi, David Yates and Graduate Students Y. Yu and R. Zhan.

Murungi, D., Yates, D., Purao, S. and Yates, D., Y. Yu, and R. Zhan. 2019. Factual or Believable? Negotiating the Boundaries of Confirmation Bias. Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Paper accepted at the Seventh International Workshop on Modeling and Management of Big Data (MoBiD) describing how conflicts (incompatible arguments from different parties) may be surfaced in data obtained from online collaboration cotexts. With Guang Zhang (doctoral work), Yilu Zhou and Heng Xu.

Zhang, G., Y. Zhou, S. Purao, and H. Xu. 2018. Extracting Conflict Models from Interaction Traces in Virtual Collaborative Work. Proceedings of MoBiD, Seventh International Workshop on Modeling and Management of Big Data. (Part of International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER Conference) Xian, China. October 2018.

Presentation about work related to how value priorities of the elderly influence their use of city services. The work was conducted as part of an Honors thesis by Yara Khoury, at the Waltham Council on Aging, with collaboration from Marybeth Duffy, Director of the Council.

Khoury, Y., S. Purao and M. Duffy. 2018. What drives Design and Use of Citizen Services: A Values-Driven Investigation. Third International Urban e-Planning Conference. Lisbon. April 2018.

The paper “PACT: A Patient-centered CDSS for Cancer Treatment Decisions” with Gaudioso, C., and H. Jain will be presented at the Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems. Dec 14-16. Dublin, Ireland.

The paper “Surfacing Conflicts in Online Collaboration: An Analytical Tool for Behavioral Studies” with Zhang, G., Y. Zhou, and H. Xu will be published at the Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems. Dec 14-16. Dublin, Ireland.