Doctoral Research and Recognitions

Doctoral Student Recognitions, Papers and Presentations

HONORS AND ACCOLADES Jasy Liew Suet Yan, a 2016 graduate of the doctoral program, accepted runner-up honors from the iSchools Organization’s 2016 doctoral dissertation prize competition. The recognition was presented at the 2017 iSchools conference in China. Her dissertation was titled, “FineGrained Emotion Detection in Microblog Text.” She now serves as a senior lecturer at the School of Computer Sciences at the University of Science in Malaysia.

Bryan Dosono was awarded a SIGCHI travel grant, a sponsorship for him to attend and present at the ACM 2017 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing in Portland, Ore. He presented his paper, “Impression Management in High Context Societies: ‘Saving Face’ with ICT,” written with Bryan Semaan and Lauren Britton. The paper was published in the CSCW ‘17 conference proceedings.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLISHED PAPERS Natã Barbosa presented a workshop on “Designing TaskOriented Text Commands for Screen Readers and Screen Magnifiers” at the 2017 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, in conjunction with Assistant Professor Yang Wang.

Barbosa also was a presenter at the Great Lakes Security Day in Rochester, New York and at the 2017 Workshop on Ubiquitous Text Interaction at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2017) held in Denver. He also earned a 2017 Summer Research Award from the iSchool at Syracuse University.

Olga Boichak, a Syracuse University Maxwell School doctoral student and member of the iSchool’s Illuminating 2016 Project, presented her paper, “Battlefront Volunteers: Mapping And Deconstructing Platform-Enabled Civilian Resilience Networks in Ukraine,” at the 8th International Conference on Social Media and Society. She also presented a poster there, “Automated Diffusion? Bots and Their Influence During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election,” (composed with doctoral students Sikana Tanupabrungsun and Daniela Fernandez Espinosa and Assistant Professor Jeff Hemsley.) Sarah Bratt had her presentation, “Translation in Personal Crises: Opportunities for Wearables Design,” appear in the proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. Co-authors were Bryan Semaan, Lauren Britton, Bryan Dosono and Frano Zeno.

Bratt also had her paper, “Toward an Open Data Repository and Meta-Analysis of Cognitive Data Using fNIRS Studies of Emotion,” published in the proceedings of HCII 2017, International Conference on Augmented Cognition. She also had her article, “Big Data, Big Metadata, and Quantitative Study of Science: A Workflow Model for Big Scientometrics,” with co-authors Jeff Hemsley, Jian Qin and Mark Costa published in the journal of the proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Conference 2017.

Lauren Britton had her paper, “Manifesting the Cyborg through Techno-Body Modification: From Human-Computer Interaction to Integration,” included in proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017). Co-author was Assistant Professor Bryan Semaan.

Brian Dobreski had his paper, co-authored with Barbara Kwasnik, professor, chosen as Best in Conference and accepted for publication in the journal of the International Society for Knowledge Organization without further review. It was presented in London at the United Kingdom chapter of the organization. The paper is titled, “Changing Depictions of Persons in Library Practice: Spirits, Pseudonyms, and Human Books.”

Dobreski also presented a paper at the 8th International Conference on Social Media and Society in Toronto, “Applying Motivational Design to Support Informal Learning of Universal Design for Web Applications.” Co-author is Assistant ProfessorYun Huang.

Bryan Dosono was published for “Exploring AAPI Identity Online: Political Ideology as a Factor Affecting Identity Work on Reddit,” in proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference in Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM. The work was in conjunction with Assistant Professors Bryan Semaan and Jeff Hemsley. Dosono’s paper was presented at the iConference 2017 in Wuhan, China. Titled, “They Should Be Convenient and Strong: Password Perceptions and Practices of Visually Impaired Users,” its co-authors are Jordan Hayes

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and Assistant Professor Yang Wang. Another of his papers, “Applying Motivational Design to Support Informal Learning of Universal Design for Web Applications,”was included in the Preliminary Papers 2: Information Behaviors and HCI track session of the 8th International Conference on Social Media and Society. Dosono also presented at an invited talk at the University of Pittsburgh iSchool Inclusion Institute on the topic, “Exploring Asian American and Pacific Islander Identity Work on Reddit.”

Jordan Hayes presented his paper, “They Should Be Convenient and Strong: Password Perceptions and Practices of Visually Impaired Users,” at the Preliminary Papers 9: Knowledge Creation, Qualitative Methods session of the international iConference in Wuhan, China. Co-authors are Brian Dosono and Assistant Professor Yang Wang.

Sam Jackson, a Syracuse University Maxwell School doctoral student involved in the iSchool’s Illuminating 2016 Project, presented his work, “Identifying Political Topics In Social Media Messages: A Lexicon-Based Approach,” at the 8th International Conference on Social Media and Society. He wrote the paper with co-authors Feifei Zhang, Olga Boichak, Jeff Hemsley, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Bryan Semaan, Nancy McCracken, Lauren Bryant and Yingya Li. Jennifer Sonne presented a poster at the 8th International Conference on Social Media and Society in Toronto, “Crisis on Twitter: Information, Emotion and Political Content,” (co-authors Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite, Swati Nibban and Yingya Li). Sonne also presented the poster, ‘A Study of Diffusion in the Dribble Art World,” (completed with Assistant Professor Jeff Hemsley and students Sikana Tanupabrungsun, Suchitra Deekshitula and Yihan Yu) at that conference.

Sikana Tanupabrungsun attended the 8th International Conference on Social Media and Society, presenting the poster, “Call to Retweet: Negotiated Diffusion of Strategic Political Messages.” Co-authors are: Assistant Professors Jeff Hemsley and Brian Semaan. Tanupabrungsun also co-presented posters there on the topics: “A Study of Diffusion in the Dribble Art World” (with Hemsley, Suchitra Deekshitula, Jennifer Sonne and Yihan Yu); “Automated Diffusion? Bots and Their Influence during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election” (with Olga Boichak, Daniela Fernandez Espinosa and Hemsley) and “Microcelebrity Practices: Towards Cross-Platform Studies through a Richness Framework” (with Hemsley).