Faculty and researchers from across the College of Computing and related disciplines are preparing for major conferences in early September. Below is a preview of what Georgia Tech will deliver to academic colleagues across the world.

ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media |  Sept. 1-4, Cyprus, Greece

Accepted Papers:

• "Characterizing Smoking and Drinking Abstinence from Social Media," by Acar Tamersoy (CS), Munmun De Choudhury (IC) and Duen Horng Chau (CSE)
• "Detecting Changes in Suicide Content Manifested in Social Media Following Celebrity Suicides," by Mrinal Kumar (CS), Mark Dredze, Glen Coppersmith and Munmun De Choudhury (IC)

 ISWC & UBICOMP |  Sept. 7-11, Osaka, Japan

Accepted Papers:

• “Predicting Daily Activities From Egocentric Images Using Deep Learning,” by
  Daniel Castro (CS), Steven Hickson (IC), Vinay Bettadapura (ECE), Edison Thomaz (IC), Gregory Abowd (IC), Henrik Christensen (IC), Irfan Essa (IC)

Papers of Note:

• “Addressing Dresses: User Interface Allowing for Interdisciplinary Design and Calibration of LED Embedded Garments,” by Zane Cochran (HCC), Clint Zeagler (HCC), Sonia McCall (ID)
• “Comparing Order Picking Assisted by Head-Up Display versus Pick-by-Light with Explicit Pick Confirmation,” by Xiaolong Wu (HCI), Malcolm Haynes (CS), Yixin Zhang (ECE), Ziyi Jiang, Zhengyang Shen (CHBE), Anhong Guo, Thad Starner (IC), Scott Gilliland (IC)

Briefs:

• “A Wearable System for Detecting Eating Activities with Outer Ear Proximity Sensing,” by Abdelkareem Bedri (IC), Apoorva Verlekar, Edison Thomaz (IC), Valerie Avva (CS), Thad Starner (IC)

Doctoral School:

• “Haptic Mirror Therapy Glove: Aiding the treatment of a paretic limb after a stroke, “ by James Hallam (ID)
• “Designing Personalized, Adaptive Technology to Augment Patient-Centered Care,” by Maia Jacobs (HCC)

Sessions:

• “Interacting with Animals and Flying Robots,” chaired by Gregory Abowd (IC)
• “Dancing with Horses: Automatic Quality Feedback for Dressage Riders,” by Robin Thompson, Ilias Kyriazakis, Amey Holden, Patrick Olivier, Thomas Ploetz (IC)
• “Diri - the Actuated Helium Balloon: A Study of Autonomous Behaviour in Interfaces,” by Diana Nowacka, Nils Hammerla, Christopher Elsden, Thomas Ploetz (IC), David Kirk

Workshop:

• “Wear & Tear: Constructing Wearable Technology for the Real World,” by the Wearable Computing Center

ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics |  Sept. 9-12, Atlanta |  Co-sponsored by the College of Computing

Accepted Papers:

• “The k-Mismatch Maximal Common Substring Problem: Efficient Algorithms and Applications,” by Sharma V. Thankachan, Sriram Chockalingam, Yongchao Liu, Alberto Apostolico (CSE) and Srinivas Aluru (CSE)

Sessions:

• “Predictive Modeling and Text Mining,” chaired by May Wang

Technical Committee:

• Munmun De Choudhury (IC)

ACM WABI |  Sept. 10-12, Atlanta |  Co-sponsored by the School of Computational Science & Engineering

General Chair:

• Srinivas Aluru (CSE) and May Wang (BME)