Human Observability of Incident Response
Practical advice on improving incident response outcomes by understanding the human element. Explores coordination, learning, and socio-technical systems in incident management.
The Best SREs Seem to Be the Ones without an SRE Title—And What We Can Do about It
Exploring why non-SRE titled professionals often excel in SRE roles, examining industry trends, and providing actionable solutions to enhance the value and effectiveness of dedicated SRE teams.
How SRE Makes Electric Vehicles
Applying SRE principles to electric vehicle manufacturing: Automation, CI/CD, Observability, and SLOs in a complex production line involving humans and robots.
Warding against the Dark Arts - Crafting a Defense Strategy against Botnet DDoS Attacks
Learn strategies to defend against large-scale DDoS attacks, focusing on performance gains, service hardening, and understanding real-user traffic for improved availability and comprehensive protection.
Classification Accuracy from the Perspective of the User - Real-Time Interaction with Physiological Computing
Explore how users perceive accuracy in physiological computing systems, comparing mathematical and perceived accuracy metrics for real-time psychophysiological data classification.
Emotions Mediated Through Mid-Air Haptics
Explore the potential of mid-air haptic technology in conveying emotions through touch, uncovering the relationship between sensory stimulation and emotional responses in human-computer interaction.
Hybrid Practice in the Kalahari - Design Collaboration through Digital Tools and Hunter-Gatherer Craft
Exploring the fusion of digital tools with traditional craft, this study examines collaborative making as a bridge between cultures and a means to inform digital design practices.
Substitutional Reality - Using the Physical Environment to Design Virtual Reality Experiences
Exploring Substitutional Reality: pairing physical objects with virtual counterparts to enhance VR experiences in uncontrolled settings. Guidelines derived from studies on user perception and engagement.
DynamicDuo - Co-presenting with Virtual Agents
Innovative system using animated agents to improve public speaking, reducing anxiety and enhancing presentation quality for inexperienced speakers, especially non-native English speakers.
Provenance for the People - An HCI Perspective on the W3C PROV Standard through an Online Game
Explore the W3C PROV standard for data provenance through an online game, examining user perspectives on information validity and verifiability in the digital age.
Performance and User Experience of Touchscreen and Gesture Keyboards in a Lab Setting and in the Wild
Comparative study of Smart Touch and Smart Gesture Keyboards, analyzing performance, error rates, and user preferences in lab and real-world settings over multiple sessions and weeks.
Making the Best of Imperfect Data - Reflections on an Ideal World
Exploring challenges in game design data collection and envisioning future improvements in Games User Research methodologies, bias reduction, and expanded investigative capabilities.
Resisting Alignment - Code and Clay
Exploring the intersection of digital fabrication and ceramics, focusing on the Sound Bowl project that records audio through surface undulations, revealing tensions between traditional and modern crafting methods.
Forming the Dog Internet - Prototyping a Dog-to-Human Video Call Device
Explore the development of a dog-controlled video call device, examining implications for animal-computer interaction and the potential for an animal-centric internet.
Smartphone-Based Handwritten Signature Verification Using Acoustic Signals
Innovative acoustic-based signature verification system using smartphones. Captures dynamic handwriting patterns with inaudible signals, achieving high accuracy through multi-modal data fusion and attentional Siamese network.
What Makes a Good Recommendation?
Explore the principles of effective recommendations with expert Joseph Konstan. Learn how recommendation technologies can be designed to benefit users, drawing from 24 years of research and industry insights.
Cryptographic Currencies Crash Course
Comprehensive introduction to cryptographic currencies, covering fundamental concepts, blockchain technology, and security implications in digital finance.
Adversarial Data Mining - Big Data Meets Cyber Security
Explore adversarial data mining techniques in cybersecurity, focusing on big data challenges and solutions for detecting and mitigating threats in complex digital environments.
Transparency Overlays and Applications
Explore transparency overlays and their applications in computer security, focusing on innovative research by Chase and Meiklejohn presented at the ACM CCS 2016 conference.
Privacy and Security in the Genomic Era
Explore privacy and security challenges in genomics with experts Erman Ayday and Jean-Pierre Hubaux, addressing crucial issues in the era of widespread genetic data use and sharing.
Practical Censorship Evasion Leveraging Content Delivery Networks
Explore innovative techniques for bypassing internet censorship using Content Delivery Networks, presented by researchers from UMass Amherst at a major cybersecurity conference.