Search Results for author: Brent Hecht

Found 6 papers, 0 papers with code

Learning Causal Effects on Hypergraphs

no code implementations7 Jul 2022 Jing Ma, Mengting Wan, Longqi Yang, Jundong Li, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan

Hypergraphs provide an effective abstraction for modeling multi-way group interactions among nodes, where each hyperedge can connect any number of nodes.

Learning to Represent Human Motives for Goal-directed Web Browsing

no code implementations7 Aug 2021 Jyun-Yu Jiang, Chia-Jung Lee, Longqi Yang, Bahareh Sarrafzadeh, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan

Then we incorporate the resulting representations for enhancing the experiences of common activities people perform on the web.

Data Leverage: A Framework for Empowering the Public in its Relationship with Technology Companies

no code implementations18 Dec 2020 Nicholas Vincent, HanLin Li, Nicole Tilly, Stevie Chancellor, Brent Hecht

Many powerful computing technologies rely on implicit and explicit data contributions from the public.

Fairness Computers and Society

Towards Better Driver Safety: Empowering Personal Navigation Technologies with Road Safety Awareness

no code implementations5 Jun 2020 Runsheng Xu, Allen Yilun Lin, Shibo Zhang, Peixi Xiong, Brent Hecht

Recent research has found that navigation systems usually assume that all roads are equally safe, directing drivers to dangerous routes, which led to catastrophic consequences.

Human-Computer Interaction

A Deeper Investigation of the Importance of Wikipedia Links to the Success of Search Engines

no code implementations21 Apr 2020 Nicholas Vincent, Brent Hecht

A growing body of work has highlighted the important role that Wikipedia's volunteer-created content plays in helping search engines achieve their core goal of addressing the information needs of millions of people.

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