November 2016 - change - Mailing Lists

E-Voting
by Yosem Companys 14 Nov '16

14 Nov '16

From: Zacharia Gichiriri <zacharia.gichiriri(a)strathmore.edu> Are there any countries that have implemented a form of mobile voting? Is there any research on the potential, challenges and applicability of mobile voting? Considering the explosive growth of mobile phones across Africa, would the use of mobile phones for elections (citizens voting through mobile phones) improve election outcomes and transparency? Best, -- Zack.

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New Ph.D. Program in Technology Management and Organization Studies at UC Santa Barbara
by Yosem Companys 11 Nov '16

11 Nov '16

From: Paul Leonardi <leonardi(a)tmp.ucsb.edu> The University of California, Santa Barbara is pleased to announce the launch of a new Ph.D. DEGREE in Technology Management. Applications are due January 15, 2017 for matriculation in Fall 2017. This new program is administered by UCSB’s Technology Management Program (located in UCSB’s top-ranked College of Engineering), whose internationally-renowned faculty include: Steve Barley Gary Hansen Paul Leonardi Kyle Lewis John Mohr Dave Seibold Ambuj Singh Bob York *Why Pursue a Ph.D. in Technology Management?* Scholars who study technology, innovation, and organizing are in great demand across many fields including business, information studies, communication, sociology and engineering. Yet most disciplinary-based programs, be they in the social sciences or in engineering schools, do not train Ph.D. students with the right mix of skills to understand both the organizational and technological aspects of work. The Ph.D. Program in Technology Management fills this void. *Is a Ph.D. in Technology Management the right fit for you?* We seek students who want to become exceptional scholars and who will go on to research and teach at top universities across the country and around the world. You would fit our program well if you are interested in technology-related work regardless of whether you have a background in the social sciences, physical sciences, management or engineering. Our program integrates organizational studies with technology and innovation studies in an interdisciplinary environment that transcends the distinctions between disciplines. If you come from a technology or scientific background we will teach you about the importance of organizations and social systems. If you have a social science or management background you will learn to understand the role of technology and innovation in shaping organizational action. *Where can our Ph.D. take you?* The job market for interdisciplinary Ph.Ds. with training in technology and organizations is expected to be strong over the next decade. We anticipate that most graduates will pursue academic positions in Business Schools (where the study of technology innovation and entrepreneurship is growing), Schools of Communication (where the study of organization and technology is increasing swiftly), in Schools of Information (which are being rapidly founded across the country), and in Schools of Engineering (that are increasingly interested in the social aspects of technical work). Unlike the demand for Ph.D. tenure track faculty in many other disciplines, the number of tenure track openings in these schools exceeds the number of Ph.Ds. awarded each year, and that gap is increasing. *Why UCSB? * UCSB is world renowned for its interdisciplinary culture, which encourages collaboration across disciplinary boundaries and exciting new interdisciplinary fields and programs. Our *faculty* <https://tmp.ucsb.edu/faculty> is world renowned for its commitment to interdisciplinarity; we have backgrounds that range from engineering and management to the social sciences. Our Ph.D. students are encouraged to explore courses and to make links to faculty in the social sciences, environmental science, and other engineering departments. The Technology Management Program is housed in the *College of Engineering, *which ranked as number one in the world among public universities for engineering research. The National Research Council ranks all of UCSB's College of Engineering research programs among the top five for their disciplines. *Learn more about this new Ph.D. Program here*: https://tmp.ucsb.edu/phd For more information about the Ph.D. Program, please contact Paul Leonardi ( leonardi(a)tmp.ucsb.edu) or Kyle Lewis (klewis(a)tmp.ucsb.edu) Thank you for forwarding this announcement to prospective students. ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________ Paul Leonardi Duca Family Professor of Technology Management Investment Group of Santa Barbara Founding Director, Master of Technology Management (MTM) Program University of California, Santa Barbara +1.805.893.5414 leonardi(a)tmp.ucsb.edu http://www.tmp.ucsb.edu/leonardi

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Tomorrow at Change: Samia Ibtasam - Designing an Immunization Information Systems
by Trevor Perrier 07 Nov '16

07 Nov '16

Please join us tomorrow at the Change Seminar for the first of two talks being given by CSE grad students at the upcoming ACM DEV <http://acmdev.org/> conference. Samia Ibtasam will be presenting work on a smartphone immunization information system for digital record keeping in Punjab Pakistan. This work was done while Samia was at the Information Technology Univeristy <http://itu.edu.pk/> in Lahore with her colleagues Amna Batool, Umair Ali, Muhammad Salman Khalid, Umar Saif, Mustafa Naseem *What:* Iterative Design of an Immunization Information System in Pakistan *When: *Tuesday, Nov. 8 *Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203 *Abstract:* Routine early age child immunization is one of the most costeffective public health interventions. The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools such as Immunization Information Systems (IIS) to improve efficiency of vaccination programs has shown mixed but encouraging results in terms of success. The objective of this paper is to present evidence of Evaccs – a successfully deployed smartphone based vaccinator monitoring app, discuss the need to create a smartphone enabled IIS (called Har Zindagi – every life matters) that can store digital records of every child, discuss various design and implementation features of Har Zindagi’s android application, and present findings of the usability testing performed on the Har Zindagi android app. Given that the vaccinators are non tech-savvy, and the real estate on a smartphone is limited, this application was particularly designed to allow easy record entry process, and smoothen the workflow. This paper builds upon previous work on user interface design for lowliterate users, and identifies techniques to iteratively design interfaces with government employees, who may be uncomfortable with giving usability feedback due to fear of repercussions or might have different field reality when compared to their supervisors and policy makers.

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Fwd: Workshop on Mining Online Health Reports at WSDM 2017
by Grégoire Lurton 03 Nov '16

03 Nov '16

Workshop on Mining Online Health Reports at WSDM 2017 https://sites.google.com/site/mohrs2017/home 10th February 2017 Cambridge, UK Update: All accepted papers will be published in the online workshop proceedings and authors will be asked to submit copies to the arXiv e-print archive. We are pleased to announce that authors of selected accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in a Special Issue of the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR). For further information please see below. The Workshop on Mining Online Health Reports aims to bring together a cross-disciplinary community of researchers interested in automatically analysing consumer-generated data for health applications. Online health information is widely published by individuals in social media, chat rooms and discussion boards. At the same time search query logs and various forms of text messaging contain a vast amount of textual information that can be directly or indirectly linked to health conditions. This informal evidence about our individual health, attitudes and behaviours has the potential to be a valuable source for health applications ranging from real-time disease monitoring, to prioritising victim responses during disasters and detecting novel applications for drugs. Informal patient data on the Web is increasing, accessible, low cost, real-time and seems likely to cover a significant proportion of the population. Coupled with wearable body sensor data and the wealth of structur! ed clinical data, it has the potential to offer insights leading to new lines of clinical investigation. However, in order to understand and integrate this data, researchers in academia and industry must grapple with theoretical, practical and ethical challenges that require immediate attention. This one day workshop is structured around four main research questions: - How can current sources of online health reports be characterised and what are the strengths and weaknesses of each? - How are online health reports being processed using NLP/IR/ML technologies and/or integrated into traditional forms of health data such as biomedical databases and patient records? - How is online health data being used in real-world case studies and field evaluations? - What are the ethical/legal issues surrounding the exploitation of personal health reports? We are inviting new and original work on a range of topics related to the automatic processing of online health reports, including, but not limited to: - Semantics and NLP/IR/ML models for online health data - Novel adaptations of methods to online health data - Representation and integration of online health data - Quantitative evaluation using online health data - Open data sets related to online health - Social network analysis / community identification for health applications - Ethical/legal issues for online health data - Reliability/trust issues with online health data - Anonymisation and privacy preservation methods - Online health data applications - Theoretical underpinnings of online health techniques - Case studies and qualitative evaluations We warmly welcome: (a) Papers emphasizing novel algorithmic approaches to online health data; (b) Application-oriented papers that make innovative technical contributions to research; (c) Data papers sharing information about the construction and availability of novel data sets (please include a sample of the data and details about how the data set will be made available); (d) Case study papers describing the application of NLP/IR/ML to real world online health data processing with lessons learnt; (e) Papers that highlight any aspect of ethics for NLP processing of online health data, e.g. anonymization, evaluation issues around NLP applications, publication of data, use of NLP tools on sensitive data. Important Dates - Submission Deadline: November 11, 2016 - Notification to Authors: December 5, 2016 - Camera-ready PDFs due: January 27, 2017 - Workshop date: February 10, 2017 *** All deadlines are 11:59pm, anywhere in the world (Alofi time). Submission Instructions Submissions to the workshop will be subject to a double-blind peer review process, with each submission reviewed by at least two program committee members in addition to an organiser. Accepted papers will be given either an oral or poster presentation slot, and published online in the workshop proceedings. Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to ACM guidelines and style files to fit within 8 pages (long papers) or 4 pages (short papers) including any diagrams, references and appendices. PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded. Submissions must be self-contained and in English. After uploading your submission, please check the copy stored on the site. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines, or do not view or print properly, may be rejected without review. The presentation format (oral or poster) will be decided by the program committee based on the nature, rather than the quality, of the work. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between papers that are presented orally or as posters. PDF files submitted to the Workshop must be anonymised: The submitted document should not include author or affiliation information, and should not include citations or discussion of related work that would make the authorship obvious. ACM style files (LaTeX and Word) are available from:https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Submissions should be made using the EasyChair online submission system athttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mohrs2017 Publication All accepted papers will be published in the online workshop proceedings. Authors are requested to submit copies to the arXiv e-print archive to ensure indexing and availability which will be linked from the workshop page along with copies of slides. Journal Publication In addition, we are pleased to announce that authors of selected accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in a Special Issue (e-collection) of JMIR Publications, which may comprise of papers published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR:http://www.jmir.org/) or another JMIR sister journal (depending on the focus and impact of the paper). All manuscripts will undergo a further round of peer review consistent with the editorial criteria for JMIR. Articles in the Special Issue will receive a 20% discount on the regular Article Publication Charge. APCs can be found here:https://www.jmir.org/about/editorialPolicies#custom8. Articles must be submitted athttp://www.jmir.org/author to the journal section “Workshop on Mining Online Health Reports” to qualify for the discount. Organisers - Nigel Collier (University of Cambridge) - Nut Limsopatham (University of Cambridge) - Ingemar J. Cox (University College London) - Vasileios Lampos (University College London) - Aron Culotta (Illinois Institute of Technology) - Mike Conway (University of Utah) Program Committee - Eiji Aramaki (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) - Matt-Mouley Bouamrane (University of Strathclyde) - David Buckeridge (McGill University) - Trevor Cohn (University of Melbourne) - Glen Coppersmith (Johns Hopkins University and Qntfy) - Courtney Corley (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) - Karen Fort (Paris-Sorbonne University) - Gareth Jones (Dublin City University) - Taha Kass-Hout (US Food and Drug Administration) - Patty Kostkova (University College London) - Gregoire Lurton (University of Washington) - Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow) - Michael J. Paul (University of Colorado, Boulder) - Richard Pebody (Public Health England) - Angus Roberts (University of Sheffield) - Abeed Sarker (University of Pennsylvania) - Elad Yom-Tov (Microsoft Research)

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Tomorrow at Change: Fahad Pervaiz - Let's Talk Money
by Trevor Perrier 31 Oct '16

31 Oct '16

Please join us tomorrow at the Change Seminar for the first of two talks being given by CSE grad students at the upcoming ACM DEV <http://acmdev.org/> conference. Fahad Pervaiz will be presenting on work that explores security issues around mobile money applications. *What: *Let’s Talk Money: Evaluating the Security Challenges of Mobile Money in the Developing World *When: *Tuesday, Nov. 1 *Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203 *Abstract:* Digital money drives modern economies, and the global adoption of mobile phones has enabled a wide range of digital financial services in the developing world. Where there is money, there must be security, yet prior work on mobile money has identified discouraging vulnerabilities in the current ecosystem. We begin by arguing that the situation is not as dire as it may seem—many reported issues can be resolved by security best practices and updated mobile software. To support this argument, we diagnose the problems from two directions: (1) a large-scale analysis of existing fi- nancial service products and (2) a series of interviews with 7 developers and designers in Africa and South America. We frame this assessment within a novel, systematic threat model. In our large-scale analysis, we evaluate 197 Android apps and take a deeper look at 71 products to assess specific organizational practices. We conclude that although attack vectors are present in many apps, service providers are generally making intentional, security-conscious decisions. The developer interviews support these findings, as most participants demonstrated technical competency and experience, and all worked within established organizations with regimented code review processes and dedicated security teams.

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