XRDS, Volume 28

Volume 28, Number 1, Fall 2021

Is Computing Toxic?
Letter from the editors

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  Karan Ahuja:
  Digital me, my smart devices and I. 5-6

Opinion

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  XRDS Staff:
  A statement of solidarity. 6

INIT

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  Xuhai Xu:
  Is computing toxic? 7-8

Updates

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  Nupur Shiturkar:
  On the path to great progress. 9

Advice

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  Ashka Shah:
  Demystifying national labs. 10-11

Careers

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  Jasmine Lu:
  Lifelong learning: an interview with Dr. Ming Lin. 12-13

Milestones

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  Manandeep:
  Beware of toxic computing. 13

Features

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  Alberto Monge Roffarello, Luigi De Russis:
  Designing technology that promotes users' digital wellbeing. 14-18
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  Fatema Akbar:
  Using sensors to measure inbox stress. 19-23
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  Stephen M. Mattingly:
  Sleep, health, productivity, and the double-edged sword of technology. 24-27
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  Subigya Nepal, Weichen Wang, Bishal Sharma, Prabesh Paudel:
  Current practices in mental health sensing. 28-33
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  Afsaneh Doryab:
  Critical thinking of mobile sensing for health. 34-37
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  Chengcheng Qu, Renwen Zhang:
  The role of online communities in supporting mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. 38-41
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  Xuhai Xu:
  Integrating people-centered and planet-centered design: in conversation with Elizabeth Murnane. 42-47
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  Xuhai Xu, Karan Ahuja, Jasmine Lu, Mary Czerwinski, Jina Suh, Gonzalo A. Ramos:
  Toward a more empathic relationship between humans and computing systems: an interview with HUE group's Mary Czerwinski, Jina Suh, and Gonzalo Ramos. 48-53
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  Koustuv Saha, Munmun De Choudhury:
  Assessing the mental health of college students by leveraging social media data. 54-58

Labz

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  Jasmine DeHart:
  Integrating technology into health: Augmented Health Lab, Hanover, NH, USA. 60-61

Back

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  Kun Jin:
  Toxicity caused by computing. 61

Hello world

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  Ben Jelen:
  Get to know Arduino. 62-66

Pointers

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  Tejas Morkar:
  Toxic computing. 67-69

Volume 28, Number 2, Winter 2021

Letter from the editors

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  Karan Ahuja:
  Open for contributions. 5

INIT

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  Megan Hofmann, Christine T. Wolf:
  Getting through a global pandemic: stories of resiliency. 7-9

Advice

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  Ashka Shah:
  How to intern. 10-11

Updates

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  Nupur Shiturkar:
  ACM members shine bright in Arkansas. 12-13

Milestones

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  Manandeep:
  Technology the savior of billions of human lives. 13

Careers

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  Jennifer Reif:
  Devrel, the career created for a developer-centric world. 14-15

Features

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  Franchesca Spektor, Estefania Rodriguez, Samantha Shorey, Sarah E. Fox:
  AI and essential labor: representing the invisible work of integration. 16-19
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  Stephanie Valencia, Lynn Kirabo:
  Twitter, COVID-19, and disability: what worked and what didn't. 20-23
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  Mai Le Xuan Anh, Miro Mannino, Zain Tariq, Azza Abouzied, Dennis E. Shasha:
  EpiPolicy: a tool for combating epidemics. 24-29
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  Megan Hofmann:
  COVID-19 tracking apps: privacy and accuracy. 30-32
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  Kolina Koltai, Rachel E. Moran, Izzi Grasso:
  Addressing the root of vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic. 34-38
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  Simone Bianco, Sara Capponi:
  Face masks are essential to prevent the spread of airborne diseases like COVID-19. 40-45
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  Mikayla Buford:
  Beyond crisis couture: the creative resilience of mask makers in the pandemic and how we can shape our futures. 46-50
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  Alex Long:
  The power of open-source hardware in crisis: perspectives from the Wilson Center's open hardware and COVID-19 roundtable. 51-55
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  Christine T. Wolf, Amanda L. L. Cullen:
  Live coding during lockdown. 56-59
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  Sarah Morrison-Smith, Lydia B. Chilton, Jaime Ruiz:
  AmbiTeam: enabling awareness of remote team activities using ambient displays. 60-65
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  Kathryn E. Ringland, Christine T. Wolf:
  "You're my best friend.": finding community online in BTS's fandom, ARMY. 66-69
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  Arpita Bhattacharya, Jin Ha Lee, Jason C. Yip, Julie A. Kientz:
  Life goes on with Pokémon: reimagining the design of location-based games during the COVID-19 pandemic. 70-75

Profile

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  Sepideh Maleki:
  Exploring deep learning theory with Surbhi Goel. 76-77

Labz

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  Jasmine DeHart:
  Accessibility, justice, and privacy for technology: Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 78-79

Back

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  Kun Jin:
  Virtual technology in the real world of COVID-19. 79

Hello world

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  Chaitanya Koparkar:
  Making GHC whole again or, how to perform whole-program analysis within GHC. 80-81

Pointers

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  Tejas Morkar:
  The intersection of technology and COVID-19. 82-84

Volume 28, Number 3, Spring 2022

Letter from the editors

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  Ross Teixeira:
  Getting involved: welcome our new Co-EiC. 5-6

INIT

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  Qianru Wang:
  Smart cities: technologies for tomorrow's urban habitat. 7-8

Opinion

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  Jasmine DeHart:
  Becoming a global citizen in a smart city. 9

Advice

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  Sepideh Maleki:
  Choosing a career. 10-11

Milestones

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  Manandeep:
  The journey to smart cities. 11

Updates

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  Nupur Shiturkar:
  UP ACM-W: guiding women through and through. 12-13

Features

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  Arnav Choudhry:
  Smart mobility: challenges and opportunities for the next generation of transportation. 14-19
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  Matthew Studley, Valentina Presutti, Daniele Nardi, Sarah Carter:
  Benchmarking robots in smart cities. 20-25
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  João Guerreiro:
  Technology to support independent navigation of people with visual impairments. 26-30
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  Jialong Zhou, Chen Qiu, Bin Guo, Zhiwen Yu:
  The challenges and future of navigation for people with disabilities. 32-36
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  Siyuan Ren, Bin Guo, Qinfen Wang, Zhiwen Yu:
  Non-IID spatio-temporal prediction in smart cities. 38-41
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  Meiyi Ma:
  Formal methods enhance deep learning for smart cities: challenges and future directions. 42-46
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  Jason Bay:
  Safer together: TraceTogether and the future of digital contact tracing. 48-55
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  Leye Wang:
  The principle of least sensing: a privacy-friendly sensing paradigm for urban big data analytics. 56-59

Labz

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  Jasmine DeHart:
  Understanding equity and diversity in smart city infrastructures: Chicago, IL, USA. 60-61

Back

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  Kun Jin:
  Urban mobility in smart cities. 61

Hello world

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  Jennifer Reif:
  Explore world cities in a graph database. 62-66

Pointers

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  Tejas Morkar:
  A true smart city. 67-69

Volume 28, Number 4, Summer 2022

Letter from the editors

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  Karan Ahuja:
  Looking back and ahead. 5

INIT

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  Jordan Taylor, Adinawa Adjagbodjou:
  DEI in computing: centering the margins. 6-7

Advice

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  Swati Rajwal, Avinash Kumar Pandey:
  The do's & don'ts of writing a research request email. 8-9

Updates

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  Nupur Shiturkar:
  MUJ ACM becomes the "best" at nationals. 10-11

Milestones

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  XRDS Staff:
  DEI takes center stage. 11

Features

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  Leslie Coney:
  Why you being WEIRD to me?: reflections of a black researcher on WEIRD-ness in HCI. 12-17
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  Hetvi Jethwani, Arjun Subramonian, William Agnew, MaryLena Bleile, Sarthak Arora, Maria Ryskina, Jeffrey Xiong:
  Queer in AI. 18-21
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  Raksha Muthukumar:
  Asian-Americans, we must resign from our role as Silicon Valley's model minority mascot. 22-25
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  Emory James Edwards:
  Putting the disability in DEI through inclusive imagery. 26-29
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  Adinawa Adjagbodjou:
  Machine learning fairness in big tech. 30-31
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  Jordan Taylor:
  Decoloniality in computing: an interview with Dipto Das. 32-36

Labz

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  Jasmine DeHart:
  Building cultural competency for computing: identity computing lab, Duke University. 38-39

Back

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  Kun Jin:
  Valuing diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM. 39

Hello world

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  Jayati Dev:
  The mathematics of bias for people prediction. 40-41

Pointers

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  Tejas Morkar:
  Diversity, equity, and inclusion in computer science. 42-43