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2023
MEDSAT: A Public Health Dataset for England Featuring Medical Prescriptions and Satellite Imagery   NeurIPS
Our Nudges, Our Selves: Tailoring Mobile User Engagement Using Personality  Interact
Insider stories: analyzing internal sustainability efforts of major US companies from online reviews  Nature HSSC
WEIRD FAccTs: How Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic is FAccT?  ACM FAccT
How Circadian Rhythms Extracted From Social Media Relate to Physical Activity and Sleep  AAAI ICWSM
Human-Centered Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Current & Future Trends  ACM CHI EA Discussion Summary
Quantified Canine: Inferring Dog Personality From Wearables  ACM CHI
The role of the big geographic sort in online news circulation among U.S. Reddit users  Nature Scientific Reports
Quantifying the impact of positive stress on companies from online employee reviews  Nature Scientific Reports
Good Intentions, Bad Inventions: How Employees Judge Pervasive Technologies in the Workplace  IEEE Pervasive Computing

2022
Multidimensional tie strength and economic development  Nature Scientific Reports
Depression at Work: Exploring Depression in Major US Companies from Online Reviews  ACM CSCW
The Future of Hybrid Meetings  ACM CHI Work
Visualizing Internal Sustainability Efforts in Big Companies  IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Predicting Meeting Success With Nuanced Emotions   IEEE Pervasive Computing
Epidemic dreams: dreaming about health during the COVID-19 pandemic  Royal Society Open Science

2021
Imagine a Walkable City: Physical activity and urban imageability across 19 major cities  EPJ Data Science
The Role of Different Types of Conversations for Meeting Success  IEEE Pervasive Computing
How epidemic psychology works on Twitter: evolution of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.  Nature HSSC
Streetonomics: Quantifying culture using street names  PLOS One
Predicting urban innovation from the US Workforce Mobility Network  Nature HSSC
Anticipatory Detection of Compulsive Body-focused Repetitive Behaviors with Wearables  ACM MobileHCI
The Dreamcatcher: Interactive Storytelling of Dreams  IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Implementing Gehl's Theory to Study Urban Space. The Case of Monotowns  Journal of Sustainability
Jane Jacobs in the Sky: Predicting Urban Vitality with Open Satellite Data ACM CSCW
Nowcasting Gentrification Using Airbnb Data ACM CSCW
The language of situational empathy ACM CSCW
The Healthy States of America: Creating a Health Taxonomy with Social Media AAAI ICWSM
A data-driven approach for assessing biking safety in cities EPJ Data Science
KAIROS: Talking Heads and Moving Bodies for Successful Meetings ACM HotMobile

2020
Our dreams, our selves: automatic analysis of dream reports Journal of the Royal Society
ComFeel: Productivity is a Matter of the Senses Too ACM Ubicomp
Cartographic Design of Cultural Maps IEEE CGA
Social Media and Open Data to Quantify the Effects of Noise on Health Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
PepMusic: Motivational Qualities of Songs for Daily Activities EPJ Data Science
HeartBees: Visualizing Crowd Affects IEEE VISAP
MeetCues: Supporting Online Meetings Experience IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Having a Heart Time? A Wearable-based Biofeedback System ACM MobileHCI (demo)
WellBeat: A Framework for Tracking Daily Well-being Using Smartwatches IEEE Internet Computing
Humane Visual AI: Telling the Stories Behind a Medical Condition IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Breakthroughs on Cross-Cutting Data Management, Data Analytics, and Applied Data Science Springer Information Systems Frontiers
Interdisciplinary Research in Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities Frontiers in Big Data
Extracting Medical Entities from Social Media ACM CHIL
Tesco Grocery 1.0, a large-scale dataset of grocery purchases in London Nature Scientific Data
Ten Social Dimensions of Conversations and Relationships ACM WWW
Social Interactions or Business Transactions? What customer reviews disclose about Airbnb marketplace ACM WWW
FaceLift: a transparent deep learning framework to beautify urban scenes Royal Society Boston Map  FastCompany . Cosmo Magazine . Blog post

2019

Large-scale and high-resolution analysis of food purchases and health outcomes EPJ Data Science London Map Summary
The Language of Dialogue Is Complex AAAI ICWSM
Urban computing leveraging location-based social network data: a survey ACM Computing Surveys
Personalized weight loss strategies by mining activity tracker data
UMAP
Evaluating the efficacy of traditional fitness tracker recommendations IUI

2018
Mapping and Visualizing Deep-Learning Urban Beautification IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Boston Map
Analyzing and predicting the spatial penetration of Airbnb in U.S. cities EPJ Data Science
Hearts and Politics: Metrics for Tracking Biorhythm Changes during Brexit and Trump DH project site
The New Urban Success: How Culture Pays Frontiers in Physics maps  project site
The Spirit of the City: Using Social Media to Capture Neighborhood Ambiance ACM CSCW maps
Coloring in the Links: Capturing Social Ties as They are Perceived CSCW project site
Community Engagement Triage: Lightweight Prompts for Systematic Reviews CSCW online game
Diversity of indoor activities and economic development of neighborhoods PLOS One
World Wide Spatial PLOS One
Mapping towards a Good City Life
Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health

2017

Transparent Data Mining for Big and Small Data Springer Book
Incentivizing social media users for mobile crowdsourcing Elsevier Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Multiple Images of the City: Unveiling Group-Specific Urban Perceptions through a Crowdsourcing Game HT
Applying Space Syntax to Online Mapping Tools WSDM

2016

Playful Cities: Crowdsourcing Urban Happiness with Web Games Journal of Built Environment
The Emotional and Chromatic Layers of Urban Smells ICWSM
Chatty Maps: Constructing sound maps of urban areas from social media data Journal of the Royal Society (Open Science)
Who Benefits from the "Sharing" Economy of Airbnb? WWW
The Death and Life of Great Italian Cities: A Mobile Phone Data Perspective WWW project site

2015

Dawn of the Selfie Era: The Whos, Wheres and Hows of Selfie Users on Instagram COSN
Cultures in Community Question Answering Smelly Maps: The Digital Life of Urban Smellscapes ICWSM project
Predicting the Ambiance of Restaurants and Coffee Shops with Profile Pictures ICWSM Best Paper Award
Taxonomy-based Discovery and Annotation of Functional Areas in the City ICWSM
The Digital Life of Walkable Streets WWW
The Social World of Content Abusers in Community Question Answering WWW
Urban Informatics and the Web WWW (Tutorial)
Chatty, Happy, and Smelly Maps Invited talk,  WWW (Companion Proceedings)
The Social Media for Cold Management Invited talk,  WWW (Companion Proceedings)
Measuring Urban Deprivation from User Generated Content CSCW

2014
Partisan Sharing: Facebook Evidence and Societal Consequences COSN
Sharing political news: the balancing act of intimacy and socialization in selective exposure EPJ Data Science
The Geography of Online News Engagement  SocInfo
The shortest path to happiness: Recommending beautiful, quiet, and happy routes in the city HyperText
The Architecture of Innovation: Tracking Face-to-Face Interactions with UbiComp Technologies Ubicomp
Best Paper Award
The New Blocs on the Block: Using Community Forums to Foster New Neighbourhoods WebSci
Mining Urban Deprivation from Foursquare: Implicit Crowdsourcing of City Land Use Pervasive Magazine
Lightweight Contextual Ranking of City Pictures: Urban Sociology to the Rescue ICWSM
Emoticons and Phrases: Status Symbols in Social Media ICWSM
Working with Friends: Unveiling Working Affinity Features from Facebook Data ICWSM
Recommending Investors for Crowdfunding Projects WWW
Taking Brazil's Pulse: Tracking Growing Urban Economies from Online Attention WWW web science (Companion Proceedings)
People of Opposing Views can Share Common Interests WWW (Poster Session)
The Pursuit of Urban Happiness Invited talk,  WWW (Companion Proceedings)
Evolutionary Habits on the Web  Invited Talk, WWW (Companion Proceedings)
Modelling Growth of Urban Crowd-Sourced Information  WSDM
Aesthetic Capital: What Makes London Look Beautiful, Quiet, and Happy? CSCW
Tracking serendipitous interactions: How individual cultures shape the office CSCW
Twitter ain't Without Frontiers CSCW


2013
Cultural Dimensions in Twitter: Time, Individualism, and Power ICWSM blog
Best Paper Award Nominee
Don’t Worry, Be Happy: The Geography of Happiness on Facebook WebSci 
Why individuals seek diverse opinions (or why they don't)  WebSci
Traditional media seen from social media  WebSci 
Psychological Maps 2.0: A web engagement enterprise starting in London  WWW acceptance15% project
Urban*: Crowdsourcing for the Good of London Invited talk,  WWW (Companion Proceedings)
Reading Tweeting Minds: Real-time Analysis of Short Text for Computational Social Science Hypertext
Finger On The Pulse: Identifying Deprivation Using Transit Flow Analysis CSCW slides blog
Trend Makers and Trend Spotters in a Mobile Application CSCW slides
 

2012
Spotting Trends: The wisdom of the few RecSys acceptance20% slides
Ads and the City: Considering Geographic Distance Goes a Long Way 
RecSys acceptance20% slides
Anti-gravity Underground? PURBA 2012 (Pervasive Workshop)
TweetLDA: Supervised Topic Classification and Link Prediction in Twitter WebSci code
Loosing "Friends" on Facebook  WebSci slides larepubblica
Visualizing Media Bias through Twitter
(ICWSM workshop)
Facebook and Privacy: The Balancing Act of Personality, Gender, and Relationship Currency ICWSM acc.20% slides video 

The Social World of Twitter: Topics, Geography, and Emotions ICWSM acceptance20%
Talk of the City: Our Tweets, Our Community Happiness  ICWSM (short paper ) slides

The Hidden Image of the City: Sensing Community Well-Being from Urban Mobility  Pervasive new scientist deutsche welle radio
Middleware for Social Computing: A Roadmap
  Middleware slides
Auralist: Introducing Serendipity into Music Recommendation  WSDM (plenary paper)acceptance8% (30/362) slides
Tracking "Gross Community Happiness" from Tweets  CSCW slides blog
The Personality of Popular Facebook Users CSCW slides blog


2011
In the Mood for Being Influential on Twitter SocialCom slides blog  bib
Our Twitter Profiles, Our Selves: Predicting Personality with Twitter SocialCom blog bib
Mobile Phones and Outdoor Advertising: Measurable Advertising Pervasive Computing Magazine
SpotME If You Can: Randomized Responses for Location Obfuscation on Mobile Phones ICDCS acceptance15% slides blog bib


up to 2010
Recommending Social Events from Mobile Phone Location Data ICDM acceptance19%(155/797) project slides
Using Mobile Phones to Nurture Social Networks Pervasive Computing Magazine project slides
StakeSource: Harnessing the Power of Crowdsourcing and Social Networks in Stakeholder Analysis ICSE (demo) project
StakeNet: Using Social Networks to Analyse the Stakeholders of Large-Scale Software Projects ICSE
acc.13% project
Sybil Attacks Against Mobile Users: Friends and Foes to the Rescue INFOCOM acc.24%(382/1575) slides
FriendSensing: Recommending Friends Using Mobile Phones RecSys project
Trust Models for Mobile Content-Sharing Applications UCL PhD Thesis 2009 Nominated for BCS Best British PhD dissertation in CS
MobiRate: Making Mobile Raters Stick to their Word Ubicomp acceptance15% blog slides bib
Lightweight Distributed Trust Propagation ICDM acceptance7% blog slides bib