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Awarded by Microsoft Research for my dissertation
I won a Microsoft Research Grant for his dissertation, “Using Online Team Recommender Systems to Form Diverse Teams!” The grant supports the research of underrepresented students in the field of computing who are finishing their doctoral degrees at North American universities. Recipients receive up to $25,000 for the research and the award rate is at…
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Paper accepted at NCA
My paper “Do I know you? The effects of offline social capital in self-assembled teams online.” was accepted at the National Communication Conference.
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Received an Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2020
Congratulations to lead author, Diego Gómez-Zará, 4th year PhD candidate in Technology and Social Behavior (TSB) on receiving Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2020 for his paper “The Impact of Displaying Diversity Information on the Formation of Self-assembling Teams.” This paper is co-authored with our data science intern, Mengzi Guo, undergraduate student with majors in…
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Which theories are behind our conversations?
Reflection for Northwestern “Social Network Analysis” class. Spatial dimensions and social support have direct consequences in people’s communications. Individuals will tend to interact in a safe and familiar environment, with those people who they feel more confident to talk and share their problems and situations. Those are some of the principles behind homophily, proximity, and also…
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¿Realidad virtual?
Con términos bastante duros, la columna del Sr. Cristián Warnken enjuicia a aquellas personas que han salido a jugar PokemonGo, tratándolos de “zombies” y de vivir en otra realidad. Sin embargo, nos invita a reflexionar sobre cómo las tecnologías sí han logrado encontrarnos con los otros, donde el tiempo ni el lugar son restricciones. Hace…
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Dos meses del SCL
Si bien llevo viviendo en Santiago (SCL) por más de 28 años, la experiencia vivida en Social Communication Lab (SCL) me ha abierto mostrado como el desarrollo interdisciplinario genera un impacto en la vida de las personas. Todo partió el año 2015, donde con Eduardo Arriagada, actual Decano de la Facultad de Comunicaciones UC, iniciamos…