May 2017 - change - Mailing Lists

Re: [change] Top 10 Flexible PCB manufactuer from China
by Joe 06 May '17

06 May '17

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Re: [change] professional FPC supplier in China
by Joe 05 May '17

05 May '17

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Tomorrow at Change: Aditya Vashistha and Pooja Sethi - Respeak
by Trevor Perrier 01 May '17

01 May '17

Hi All, Please join us tomorrow at the Change Seminar. Aditya Vashistha and Pooja Sethi will be talking about their project Respeak - which will be presented at CHI 2017 next week. *What:* Respeak: A Voice-based, Crowed-powered Speech Transcription System *When: *Tuesday May 2 *Where: *12pm in CSE 203 *Abstract:* Speech transcription is an expensive service with high turnaround time for audio files containing languages spoken in developing countries and regional accents of well-represented languages. We present Respeak — a voice-based, crowd-powered, accessible speech transcription system that capitalizes on the strengths of crowdsourcing and automatic speech recognition (instead of typing) to transcribe such audio files. We created Respeak and optimized its design through a series of cognitive experiments. We deployed it with 25 university students in India who completed 5464 micro-transcription tasks transcribing widely-varied audio content with a word error rate of 10%, and collectively earning USD 46 as mobile airtime. Our findings suggest that Respeak improves the quality of speech transcription while enhancing the earning potential of low-income populations in resource-constrained settings. *Bio:* In this talk, Aditya Vashistha and Pooja Sethi will present Respeak. Aditya is a Computer Science PhD candidate and Pooja is a senior undergraduate Computer Engineering major at the Allen School.

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Fwd: [dub] May 17 3:30pm - Talk by Darren Gergle on "The Wikipedia Language Gap: Understanding and Designing for Global Communities"
by Trevor Perrier 30 Apr '17

30 Apr '17

Many in the Change community will find this upcoming talk interesting. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Benj. Mako Hill <makohill(a)uw.edu> Date: Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 8:33 PM Subject: [dub] May 17 3:30pm - Talk by Darren Gergle on "The Wikipedia Language Gap: Understanding and Designing for Global Communities" To: dub(a)dub.uw.edu Greetings dub folks! The Scheidel Lecture is the Department of Communications big annual lecture. This year, the speaker is Darren Gergle:a an HCI and social computing researcher who I hope will be of interest to many folks at DUB! The event is open to the public and free but an RSVP is requested. Also, please feel free to forward on the email and link to other places! Lots of details are below! WHO: Darren Gergle, Professor in the departments of Communication Studies and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (by courtesy) at Northwestern University WHAT: The Wikipedia Language Gap: Understanding and Designing for Global Communities WHEN: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 | Presentation: 3:30 PM | Reception: 4:30 PM WHERE: Room 120 of the Communications Building (CMU) at UW LINKS: Overview: http://www.com.washington.edu/2017/04/2017-thomas-scheidel- lecture-darren-gergle-nu/ RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2017-thomas-scheidel-lecture- featuring-darren-gergle-nu-tickets-33687641643 ABSTRACT: Everyday people produce an extraordinary amount of user-generated content in peer- production and social media systems such as Wikipedia, Reddit, Flickr, Instagram and Facebook. These large-scale repositories have been shown to provide accurate and wide-ranging coverage of a variety of events, topics and information. Yet, language barriers coupled with community- based coverage biases can undermine the availability, accessibility and usefulness of the information. In this talk, Professor Gergle will present research that illustrates both the challenges and opportunities of user- generated content in the context of multilingual Wikipedia. In doing so, he aims to achieve the following three goals: (1) to describe large-scale data analysis techniques that can be used to empirically assess content diversity and coverage biases that exist across language editions of Wikipedia, (2) to elaborate the effect these diverse representations and biases can have on both individuals that make use of the knowledge as well as technologies that rely upon the peer-produced data structures, and (3) to demonstrate new approaches to the design of technologies that better support global knowledge representation. SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Professor Gergle’s research is in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) with an interest in developing a theoretical understanding of the role that visual information plays in supporting communication and group interactions. A key component of his work is the application of social and cognitive psychology theory to the design, deployment and evaluation of computing technologies. ABOUT THE SCHEIDEL LECTURE: The Thomas Scheidel Lecture has been a long-standing tradition since 1998 after the Thomas M. Scheidel Faculty Lecture Fund was created in 1997. It honors Scheidel’s lifetime of scholarship, teaching, and academic leadership by bringing distinguished scholars to the UW Department of Communication to meet with and lecture to faculty and students who are pursuing advanced study in communication. During Scheidel’s more than twenty-year career at the UW, he held the positions of Associate Dean and Departmental Chair twice, and was awarded for his Distinguished Service, Research, and as a Scholar. Scheidel was inducted into the Department Alumni Hall of Fame, Class of 2014. Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill http://mako.cc/academic/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto _______________________________________________ dub mailing list dub(a)dub.washington.edu http://dubber.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/dub

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