2024-04-15: Review of WS-DL's 2023
Most of the Web Science & Digital Libraries Research Group, 2023-04-13Although Covid continued in 2023, things at ODU and the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Research Group were mostly...
View Article2024-05-14: A-DisETrac: Advanced Analytic Dashboard for Distributed Eye Tracking
Distributed Eye TrackingDistributed eye tracking refers to a system where eye-tracking technology is utilized across multiple locations. Instead of relying on a single eye-tracking device, distributed...
View Article2024-05-18: 2024 WS-DL Research Expo
On April 26, 2024, we held our fourth annual WS-DL Research Expo. We continued the same format as the prior years (2023, 2022 & 2021), with one student from each WS-DL professor giving a short...
View Article2024-05-21: Paper Summary: "Positive Feedback and Self-reflection: Features...
The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, commonly known as 'kai,' is the premier international conference in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This annual gathering brings together...
View Article2024-05-24: Paper Summary: Disappearing repositories – taking an...
Figure 1: usgs.gov/products/data-and-tools, one of the 191 repositories in Re3data that is now defunctWith more and more scholarly papers being published, researchers are increasingly citing datasets....
View Article2024-06-03: MSV Student Capstone Conference (MSVSCC 2024) Trip Report
The 17th Annual Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Student Capstone Conference (MSVSCC 2024) took place at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC) on April 11, 2024. The...
View Article2024-06-04: Revamp Your Academic Presence: A Simple but Elegant Open Source...
Having a personal website is essential for anyone in academia. An academic portfolio website allows graduate students, faculty, and researchers to showcase their work, achievements, and expertise in a...
View Article2024-06-04: Making Web Archives More Accessible: Insights from a GAAD...
Figure: Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) bannerIntroductionGlobal Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is a time to reflect, celebrate, and renew our commitment to making sure everyone can...
View Article2024-06-06: 30 Years of the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS): 1994--2024
The announcement of NTRS in Usenet's sci.aeronautics newsgroup on June 6, 1994. Note the quaint requirement of "Forms" support (which was not yet available in all web browsers in 1994).Today marks...
View Article2024-06-12: Paper Summary: Exploring the Use of Personalized AI for...
Figure 1 Jahanbakhsh et al. Assess tweets with AI assistance (UI used in Step 3). Participants assess each tweet in their feed while seeing AI model predictions. As shown in this screenshot, the user...
View Article2024-06-26: Paper Summary: RELIC: Investigating Large Language Model...
Figure 1 Cheng et al.: RELIC allows users to search for information from large language models (A), view the model’s top response, and understand the variations between response samples to verify the...
View Article2024-07-05: Trip report: the 3rd International Conference on Science of...
The 3rd International Conference on Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI) is held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. between July 1 and July 3, 2024. I attended the conference...
View Article2024-07-11: Disinformation Detection and Analytics REU Program - Year 3
The REU summer cohort of 2024, along with ODU faculty and graduate students, at the REU orientation on May 24th, 2024, at the Computer Science Department.Research Experiences for Undergraduates...
View Article2024-07-15: Literature Reading and Paper Summary: Two Classical papers on...
Contrastive learning models proposed in recent years (Figure 1 from A Simple Framework for Contrastive Learning of Visual Representations) Supervised learning has been widely used in machine learning,...
View Article2024-07-20: ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability 2024 -...
Figure 1: Homepage ofACM REP ‘24The ACM Conference for Reproducibility and Replicability (ACM REP) is a recently launched venue for computer and information scientists whose research covers...
View Article2024-07-22: Disinformation Detection and Analytics REU Program – Mid-Summer...
2024 REU cohort and faculty after the mid-summer presentation session, 2024-06-21The Department of Computer Science Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program provides hands-on learning and...
View Article2024-07-31: Improving Learning for All: How AI-Driven App Converts Scanned...
Presenting our extended abstract at the 17th MSVSCC 2024At the 17th Annual Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization Student Capstone Conference 2024 (MSVSCC), I presented our extended abstract,...
View Article2024-08-01: My PhD Voyage
One day, as I sat playing Candy Crush for the hundredth time on the sofa, I thought, "I could be doing something more productive with my spare time." While there were probably hundreds of other things...
View Article2024-08-06: Disinformation Detection and Analytics REU Program 2024 - Final...
Students presenting at ODU CS REU Program 2024 - Final PresentationsThis year marks the third year of the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded program of Research Experiences for Undergraduates...
View Article2024-08-07: Tools for Using the Internet Archive's TV News Archive as...
The Internet Archive TV News Archive is a service provided by the Internet Archive that enables users to search across a collection of television news programs. As of May 2024, the TV News Archive...
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