Book
Writers in the Secret Garden:
Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring
Cecilia Aragon and Katie Davis
Learning in Large-Scale Environments Series
MIT Press (2019).
Conference Papers
Group Interactions in Location-Based Gaming: A Case Study of Raiding in Pokemon GO, Arpita Bhattacharya, Travis W Windleharth, Rio Anthony Ishii, Ivy M Acevedo, Cecilia R Aragon, Julie A Kientz, Jason C Yip, Jin Ha Lee. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19). 12 pages (2019).
Global Reactions to the Cambridge Analytica Scandal: An Inter-Language Social Media Study, Felipe Gonzalez, Yihan Yu, Andrea Figueroa, Claudia Lopez, and Cecilia Aragon. In Companion Proceedings of the 2019 World Wide Web Conference (LA-WEB ’19), May 13-17, 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA. 8 pages (2019).
Harnessing Complexity in High Performance Computing Ecosystems: A Complex Adaptive Systems Framework, Nan-Chen Chen, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Sarah S Poon, and Cecilia Aragon. Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 10 pages (2019).
Reviews Matter: How Distributed Mentoring Predicts Lexical Diversity on Fanfiction.net, John Frens, Ruby Davis, Jihyun Lee, Diana Zhang, and Cecilia Aragon. Proceedings of the 2018 Connected Learning Summit, 8 pages (2018).
Conceptualizing Disagreement in Qualitative Coding, Himanshu Zade, Margaret Drouhard, Bonnie Chinh, Lu Gan, and Cecilia Aragon. Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18). Paper 159, 11 pages (2018).
SparQs: Visual Analytics for Sparking Creativity in Social Media Exploration, Nan-Chen Chen, Michael Brooks, Rafal Kocielnik, Jeff Smith, Sanny Lin, Zening Qu, and Cecilia Aragon. International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media (2017), 394-405.
Aeonium: Visual Analytics to Support Collaborative Qualitative Coding, Margaret Drouhard, Nan-Chen Chen, Jina Suh, Rafal Kocielnik, Vanessa Pena-Araya, Keting Cen, Xiangyi Zheng, and Cecilia R. Aragon. Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization, PacificVis ’17, Seoul, Korea (2017), 10 pages.
Designing Interactive Distance Cartograms to Support Urban Travelers, Sungsoo (Ray) Hong, Rafal Kocielnik, Min-Joon Yoo, Sarah Battersby, Juho Kim, and Cecilia Aragon. Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization, PacificVis ’17, Seoul, Korea (2017), 10 pages.
More Than Peer Production: Fanfiction Communities as Sites of Distributed Mentoring. Sarah Evans, Katie Davis, Abigail Evans, Julie Campbell, David Randall, Kodlee Yin, Cecilia Aragon. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW ’17, Portland, OR (2017), 14 pages.
Lariat: A Visual Analytics Tool for Social Media Researchers to Explore Twitter Datasets. Nan-Chen Chen, Michael Brooks, Rafal Kocielnik, Ray Hong, Jeff Smith, Sanny Lin, Zening Qu, Cecilia Aragon. Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Data Analytics and Data Mining for Social Media Minitrack (2017), 10 pages.
Beyond the Individual: The Dynamic Features of Distributed Affect. Taylor J. Scott, Daniel Perry, Alison Williams, Cecilia R. Aragon. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work, GROUP ’16, Sanibel Island, FL (2016), 11 pages.
Considering Time in Designing Large-Scale Systems for Scientific Computing. Nan-Chen Chen, Sarah S. Poon, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Cecilia Aragon. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW ’16, San Francisco, CA (2016). PDF
Thousands of Positive Reviews: Distributed Mentoring in Online Fan Communities. Julie Campbell, Cecilia Aragon, Katie Davis, Sarah Evans, Abigail Evans, David Randall. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW ’16, San Francisco, CA (2016). PDF
Traffigram: Distortion for Clarification via Isochronal Cartography. Sungsoo (Ray) Hong, Yeaseul Kim, Jong-chul Yoon, Cecilia R. Aragon. CHI 2014: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada (May 2014). PDF
Collaborative Visual Analysis of Sentiment in Twitter Events. Michael Brooks, John J. Robinson, Megan K. Torkildson, Sungsoo (Ray) Hong, Cecilia R. Aragon. International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, & Engineering (CDVE) 2014.
Diverse Player Experiences in the Design of Science Games for Bioinformatics. Daniel Perry, Aaron Lynch, Asmi Joshi, Karin Hellman, John J. Robinson, Alyssa-Cyre Oyadomari, Melissa Richtarik, Cecilia R. Aragon. 1st Chilean Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, ChileCHI 2013, Temuco, Chile (Nov 2013). PDF
Human Centered Game Design for Bioinformatics and Cyberinfrastructure Learning. Perry, D., Aragon, C., Cruz, S., Peters, M., & Chowning, J. Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment. ACM XSEDE 2013 (Sept 2013). Best Training, Education & Outreach Paper Award. PDF
Hoptrees: Branching History Navigation for Hierarchies. Michael Brooks, Jevin D. West, Cecilia R. Aragon, Carl T. Bergstrom. INTERACT 2013. Cape Town, South Africa. PDF
Perceptions of Interfaces for Eye Movement Biometrics. Michael Brooks, Cecilia R. Aragon, Oleg V. Komogortsev. IEEE/IAPR International Conference on Biometrics, 2013. PDF
Statistical Affect Detection in Collaborative Chat. Michael Brooks, Katie Kuksenok, Megan Torkildson, Daniel Perry, John Robinson, Paul Harris, Ona Anicello, Taylor Scott, Ariana Zukowski, Cecilia Aragon. CSCW 2013. San Antonio, TX. PDF
VizDeck: Streamlining Exploratory Visual Analytics of Scientific Data. Perry, D., Howe, B., Key, A., & Aragon, C. Proceedings of the 2013 iConference. Fort Worth, TX. (2013). PDF
Adapting Grounded Theory to Construct a Taxonomy of Affect in Collaborative Online Chat. Taylor J. Scott, Katie Kuksenok, Daniel Perry, Michael Brooks, Ona Anicello, Cecilia Aragon. SIGDOC 2012. Seattle, WA. PDF
Biometric Authentication via Oculomotor Plant Characteristics. Oleg Komogortsev, Alex Karpov, Larry Price, Cecilia Aragon, IEEE/IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (2012), pp. 1-8. Best Paper Award [15% acceptance rate] PDF
Collaborative Creativity: A Complex Systems Model with Distributed Affect. Cecilia R. Aragon and Alison Williams, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI ’11 (2011). PDF
No Sense of Distance: Improving Cross-Cultural Communication with Context-Linked Software Tools. Cecilia R. Aragon and Sarah S. Poon, iConference (2011). PDF
Journal Articles
Using Machine Learning to Support Qualitative Coding in Social Science: Shifting The Focus to Ambiguity, Nan-Chen Chen, Margaret Drouhard, Rafal Kocielnik, Jina Suh, Cecilia R. Aragon, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, Vol. 9, No. 4, Article 39, 21 pages (March 2018).
Deliberate Individual Change Framework for Understanding Programming Practices in Four Oceanography Groups, Kateryna Kuksenok, Cecilia Aragon, James Fogarty, Charlotte Lee, Gina Neff, Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 26 (4-6), pp. 663-691 (Dec. 2017).
Toward the Operationalization of Visual Metaphor, Alexis Hiniker, Sungsoo (Ray) Hong, Yeaseul Kim, Nan-chen Chen, Jevin West, Cecilia Aragon, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Vol 68, Issue 10, pp. 2338-2349 (Oct. 2017).
Impediment to insight to innovation: understanding data assemblages through the breakdown-repair process. Anissa Tanweer, Brittany Fiore-Gartland, Cecilia Aragon. Information, Communication & Society, March 2016, 17 pages, doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2016.1153125 (2016).
Energy efficiency and the misuse of programmable thermostats: The effectiveness of crowdsourcing for understanding household behavior. Marco Pritoni, Alan K. Meier, Cecilia Aragon, Daniel Perry, and Therese Peffer. Energy Research & Social Science 8, doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2015.06.002. (2015): 190-197.
Game Design for Bioinformatics & Cyberinfrastructure Learning: A Parallel Computing Case Study. Daniel Perry, John Robinson, Stephanie Cruz, Cecilia Aragon, Jeanne Ting Chowning, and Mette Peters. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 26, no. 13, doi: 10.1002/cpe.3261 (2014): 2303-2315.
Crowd-Sourced Assessment of Technical Skills (C-SATS): A Novel Method to Evaluate Surgical Performance. Chen, Carolyn; White, Lee; Kowalewski, Timothy; Aggarwal, Rajesh; Lintott, Chris; Comstock, Bryan; Kuksenok, Katie; Aragon, Cecilia; Holst, Daniel; Lendvay, Thomas S.; Journal of Surgical Research (2013).
Standardizing Type Ia Supernova Absolute Magnitudes Using Gaussian Process Data Regression. A. G. Kim, R. C. Thomas, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, S. Bongard, C. Buton, A. Canto, F. Cellier-Holzem, M. Childress, N. Chotard, Y. Copin, H. K. Fakhouri, E. Gangler, J. Guy, M. Kerschhaggl, M. Kowalski, J. Nordin, P. Nugent, K. Paech, R. Pain, E. Pécontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, M. Rigault, K. Runge, C. Saunders, R. Scalzo, G. Smadja, C. Tao, B. A. Weaver, C. Wu; http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1302.2925; Astrophysical Journal, 47 pages (2013).
Atmospheric extinction properties above Mauna Kea from the Nearby Supernova Factory spectro-photometric data set. C. Buton, Y. Copin, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, S. Bongard, A. Canto, F. Cellier-Holzem, M. Childress, N. Chotard, H. K. Fakhouri, E. Gangler, J. Guy, E. Y. Hsiao, M. Kerschhaggl, M. Kowalski, S. Loken, P. Nugent K. Paech, R. Pain, E. Pécontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, M. Rigault, K. Runge, R. Scalzo, G. Smadja, C. Tao, R. C. Thomas, B. A. Weaver, C. Wu; http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1210.2619; 22 pages (2012).
A Search for New Candidate Super-Chandrasekhar-mass Type Ia Supernovae in the Nearby Supernova Data Set. R. Scalzo, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, C. Baltay, S. Bailey, S. Bongard, C. Buton, A. Canto, F. Cellier-Holzem, M. Childress, N. Chotard, Y. Copin, H. Fakhouri, E. Gangler, J. Guy, E. Hsaio, M. Kerschhaggi, M. Kowalski, P. Nugent, K. Paech, R. Pain, E. Pecontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, M. Rigault, K. Runge, G. Smadja, C. Tao, R. C. Thomas, B. A. Weaver, C. Wu, Astrophysical Journal, 757 (12), http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/757/1/12 (2012).
Facilitating energy savings with programmable thermostats: evaluation and guidelines for the thermostat user interface. Peffer, T., Pritoni, M., Perry, D., Aragon, C. & Meier, A. Ergonomics, DOI:10.1080/00140139.2012.718370 (2012). PDF
How people use thermostats in homes: A review. Peffer, T., Pritoni, M., Meier, A.K., Aragon, C. & Perry, D. Building and Environment, 46 (12), 2529-2541 (2011). PDF
Making energy savings easier: Usability metrics for thermostats. Perry, D., Aragon, C., Meier, A., Peffer, T. & Pritoni, M. Journal of Usability Studies, 6 (4), 226-244 (2011). PDF
Usability of residential thermostats: Preliminary investigations. Meier, A., Aragon, C., Peffer, T., Perry, D., Pritoni, M. Building and Environment, doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.03.009 (2011).
Type Ia Supernova Carbon Footprints. R. C. Thomas, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, S. Bongard, C. Buton, A. Canto, M. Childress, N. Chotard, Y. Copin, H. K. Fakhouri, E. Gangler, E. Y. Hsiao, M. Kerschhaggl, M. Kowalski, S. Loken, P. Nugent, K. Paech, R. Pain, E. Pecontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, M. Rigault, D. Rubin, K. Runge, R. Scalzo, G. Smadja, C. Tao, B. A. Weaver, C. Wu; Astrophys.J. 743:27 http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1109.1312 (2011).
The reddening law of type Ia supernovae: separating intrinsic variability from dust using equivalent widths. Chotard, N.; Gangler, E.; Aldering, G.; Antilogus, P.; Aragon, C.; Bailey, S.; Baltay, C.; Bongard, S.; Buton, C.; Canto, A.; Childress, M.; Copin, Y.; Fakhouri, H. K.; Hsiao, E. Y.; Kerschhaggl, M.; Kowalski, M.; Loken, S.; Nugent, P.; Paech, K.; Pain, R.; Pecontal, E.; Pereira, R.; Perlmutter, S.; Rabinowitz, D.; Runge, K.; Scalzo, R.; Smadja, G.; Tao, C.; Thomas, R. C.; Weaver, B. A.; Wu, C., Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 529, id.L4 http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1103.5300 (2011).
Keck Observations of the Young Metal-poor Host Galaxy of the Super-Chandrasekhar-mass Type Ia Supernova SN 2007if. Childress, M.; Aldering, G.; Aragon, C.; Antilogus, P.; Bailey, S.; Baltay, C.; Bongard, S.; Buton, C.; Canto, A.; Chotard, N.; Copin, Y.; Fakhouri, H. K.; Gangler, E.; Kerschhaggl, M.; Kowalski, M.; Hsiao, E. Y.; Loken, S.; Nugent, P.; Paech, K.; Pain, R.; Pecontal, E.; Pereira, R.; Perlmutter, S.; Rabinowitz, D.; Runge, K.; Scalzo, R.; Thomas, R. C.; Smadja, G.; Tao, C.; Weaver, B. A.; Wu, C., The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 733, Issue 1, article id 3 http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1103.2324 (2011).
Cosmology with the Nearby Supernova Factory. Kerschhaggl, M.; Aldering, G.; Antilogus, P.; Aragon, C.; Bailey, S.; Baltay, C.; Bongard, S.; Buton, C.; Canto, A.; Childress, M.; Chotard, N.; Copin, Y.; Fakhouri, H. K.; Gangler, E.; Hsiao, E. Y.; Kowalski, M.; Loken, S.; Nugent, P.; Paech, K.; Pain, R.; Pecontal, E.; Pereira, R.; Perlmutter, S.; Rabinowitz, D.; Runge, K.; Scalzo, R.; Smadja, G.; Tao, C.; Thomas, R. C.; Wu, C., Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, Volume 66, Issue 2, p. 335-339 (2011).
Workshop Papers and Posters
Challenges of Applying Machine Learning to Qualitative Coding. Nan-Chen Chen, Rafal Kocielnik, Margaret Drouhard, Vanessa Peña-Araya, Jina Suh, Keting Cen, Xiangyi Zheng and Cecilia R. Aragon. CHI 2016 workshop on Human Centred Machine Learning, May 2016. PDF
Building Visual Analytics Tools for Enabling Human-Centered Data Science. Nan-Chen Chen. UW Data Science Poster and Networking Session, Feb 2016. PDF
Establishing common ground in informal text communication: Emoticon use in first and second languages. Nan-Chen Chen, Laurie Beth Feldman, Judith F. Kroll, Cecilia R. Aragon. Finding Common Ground: Social, Ecological, and Cognitive Perspectives on Language Use, June 2014. PDF
Text Classification for Qualitative Analysis at Scale. Michael Brooks, Katie Kuksenok, Megan Kelly Torkildson, John J. Robinson, Ray Hong, Taylor J. Scott, Daniel Perry, Cecilia Aragon. UW Data Science Environment Kickoff, Feb. 2014. PDF
Affect, Biosensors, Creativity, and Distributed Groups: Using physiological and qualitative measures of affect to inform the design of systems that support creative collaboration. Andrew B. L. Berry, S. M. Mitchell, Daniel Perry, Dian Hartono, Cecilia Aragon. HCDE Corporate Affiliates Day 2013. PDF
Visualizing Emotion and Influence in Twitter. Michael Brooks, Katie Kuksenok, Megan K. Torkildson, John J. Robinson, Andrew B. L. Berry, Sungsoo (Ray) Hong, Ariana Zukowski, Cecilia R. Aragon. HCDE Corporate Affiliates Day 2013. PDF
Measuring Distributed Affect in Collaborative Games. Daniel Perry, Cecilia R. Aragon. CSCW 2012. Seattle, WA. ACM Digital Library
Automating Large-Scale Annotation for Analysis of Social Media Content. Katie Kuksenok, Michael Brooks, John J. Robinson, Daniel Perry, Megan K. Torkildson, Cecilia Aragon. 2nd Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics, VisWeek 2012. Seattle, WA. Abstract, Poster.
If You’re Happy and You Show It :) Detecting Emotion in Text-Based Communication. Taylor Scott, Ona Anicello, Michael Brooks, Katie Kuksenok, Daniel Perry, John Robinson, Cecilia Aragon. HCDE Corporate Affiliates Day 2012. PDF
Statistical Affect Detection in Collaborative Chat. Michael Brooks, Katie Kuksenok, Megan Kelly Torkildson, Daniel Perry, John J. Robinson, Paul Harris, Ona Anicello, Taylor J. Scott, Ariana Zukowski, Cecilia Aragon. CSE Affiliates Day 2012. PDF
ARGHHH!! Understanding frustration with biometric authentication. Michael Brooks, Michael Toomim, Cecilia Aragon. HCDE Corporate Affiliates Day 2012. PDF
Gaze Prints: User Centered Design and Evaluation of an Eye Movement-based Biometric Authentication System Michael Brooks, Cecilia R. Aragon, Oleg V. Komogortsev. Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2011. Pittsburgh, PA. Abstract, Poster.
