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Lack of diversity and high dropout rates among underrepresented students plague the CS discipline. We developed, administered, and validated survey scales measuring social factors that impact the retention and graduation of under-represented CS ...

In this study, an instrument was designed to measure social factors which might predict student success (n=95). The instrument was administered to computer science undergraduates at a public research university in the Northeast USA. The instrument was a ...

Widespread conspiracy theories, like those motivating anti-vaccination attitudes or climate change denial, propel collective action, and bear society-wide consequences. Yet, empirical research has largely studied conspiracy theory adoption as an ...

Technological advances have reduced learning and teaching limits based on time and distance making education more accessible to students. Accordingly this study sought to establish whether the personal computer utilisation model (PCUM) could be used to ...

How do users on social platforms consume content shared by their friends? Is this consumption socially motivated, and can we predict it? Considerable prior work has focused on inferring and learning user preferences with respect to broadcasted, or open-...

Technological ubiquity and advances in the use of networked devices, such as smartphones, have become a fundamental element in the dynamics of information in the social environment. Social problems can be discussed in these networks, receiving the aid ...

This paper explores how the design of online technology influences social factors and manipulates users' online privacy behaviours. In short, users reveal information and participate in online activities even when reluctant due to the influence of dark ...

To develop systems effectively, a shared system understanding is required. Collaborative modeling is one way to capture this shared understanding. Increasingly, in large systems engineering projects different distances lead to social barriers between ...

We developed a highly-visible head-mounted novelty wearable to be used in social settings. We tested our Interactive Social Novelty Wearable (iSNoW) prototype in a partner-based user study to see if perceptions of the experience would change if the ...

This research assesses whether universities from varied cultures rank significantly different with respect to the quality of their web contents and with regard to their web accessibility WA level. Moreover, this article tests whether universities, which ...

Crowdsourcing's ability to forge new digital, and thus not location-bound, job opportunities spurred many visions of crowdsourcing's social impact as an answer to failing economies and recessions, especially in developing countries. Yet, did the digital ...

Countries vary greatly in the extent to which their computers encounter and host attacks. Empirically identifying factors behind such variation can provide a sound basis for policies to reduce attacks worldwide. However, the main current approach to ...

This paper details our work towards designing a system for crowd-sourcing responses on thermal comfort in naturally ventilated office buildings. We provide preliminary qualitative findings on the deployment of this system. Specifically, we explore the ...

This paper describes how people who lead communities on online platforms join together in mass collective action to influence platform operators. I investigate this by analyzing a protest against the social news platform reddit by moderators of 2,278 ...

Effort estimation is often influenced by several factors, including social. This study aims at understanding the interactions between social factors and effort during effort estimation. I want to analyze the dynamics that occur when a developer ...

Intelligent transport systems (ITS) have at their core technological systems that work together to improve transportation performance. However, this performance becomes uncertain when the technologies themselves are scrutinized alongside the benefit they ...

The number of trojans, worms, and viruses that computers encounter varies greatly across countries. Empirically identifying factors behind such variation can provide a scientific empirical basis to policy actions to reduce malware encounters in the most ...

The acceptance of e-government and utilizing it, are among the consequential issues that are dealt with in putting new technologies to use. This subject is of special importance because as long as e-government services are not utilized by citizens, new ...

Security tools can help developers build more secure software systems by helping developers detect or fix security vulnerabilities in source code. However, developers do not always use these tools. In this paper, we investigate a number of social ...

Every day, thousands of people make donations to humanitarian, political, environmental, and other causes, a large amount of which occur on the Internet. The solicitations for support, the acknowledgment of a donation and the discussion of corresponding ...