Computational and Causal Approaches on Social Media and Multimodal Sensing Data: Examining Wellbeing in Situated Contexts

March 10, 2021 - 10:00am to 11:00am

 

Pitt Department of Informatics and Networked Systems Colloquium

Title: Computational and Causal Approaches on Social Media and Multimodal Sensing Data: Examining Wellbeing in Situated Contexts

SpeakerKoustuv Saha

Description: A core aspect of our lives is often embedded in the communities we are situated in. The inter-connectedness of our interactions and experiences intertwine our situated context with our wellbeing. A better understanding of wellbeing will help us devise proactive and tailored support strategies. However, existing methodologies to assess wellbeing suffer from limitations. Parallelly, given its ubiquity, social media can be considered as a “passive sensor” to obtain naturalistic data.

In this talk, Koustuv Saha will present computational and causal approaches for leveraging social media in concert with complementary multisensor data to examine wellbeing. He will show how theory-driven computational methods capture psychosocial dynamics in situated communities, particularly college campuses and workplaces, and dive deep into the meaning of these inferences. This talk will also propel the vision towards building and evaluating the utility of human-centered technologies for wellbeing and future of work and the harms/benefits of these assessments.

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