Are cryptocurrency traders driven by a desire to invest in a new asset class to diversify their portfolio or are they merely seeking to increase their levels of risk? To answer this question, we use individual-level brokerage data and study their behavior in stock trading around the time they engage in their first cryp…
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Blockchain fan tokens boost sports fan engagement by 50%.
problem Low fan engagement in sports decisions.
method Analyzed 3,576 fan token polls to identify determinants of participation.
result Fan tokens engage 4,003 participants per poll, 50% of token holders.
Study improves engagement prediction in educational videos.
problem Addressing cold-start problem in educational recommenders.
method Introduced VLE dataset with content and engagement features, conducted experiments.
result VLE dataset leads to better engagement prediction models.
Limited Resource Allocation in a Non-Markovian World: The Case of Maternal and Child Healthcarecs.AI
New approach tackles non-Markovian behavior in maternal health programs.
problem Improving adherence and engagement in maternal and child healthcare programs.
method Extending RMABs to non-Markovian settings, using time-series forecasting and TARI policy.
result Significant increase in engagement and content listened compared to existing methods.
The Web has enabled one of the most visible recent developments in education---the deployment of massive open online courses. With their global reach and often staggering enrollments, MOOCs have the potential to become a major new mechanism for learning. Despite this early promise, however, MOOCs are still relatively u…
The ever-increasing demand from mobile Machine Learning (ML) applications calls for evermore powerful on-chip computing resources. Mobile devices are empowered with heterogeneous multi-processor Systems-on-Chips (SoCs) to process ML workloads such as Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) inference. Mobile SoCs house sever…
In this paper we present the first results of a pilot experiment in the capture and interpretation of multimodal signals of human experts engaged in solving challenging chess problems. Our goal is to investigate the extent to which observations of eye-gaze, posture, emotion and other physiological signals can be used t…
Fake engagement is one of the significant problems in Online Social Networks (OSNs) which is used to increase the popularity of an account in an inorganic manner. The detection of fake engagement is crucial because it leads to loss of money for businesses, wrong audience targeting in advertising, wrong product predicti…
Operationalizes engagement as human behavior, linking theory and data.
problem Fuzziness of engagement concept.
method Formal framework, Melchoir Model, model comparison, theory-driven hypothesis.
result Engagement can be shaped and interpreted using data-driven methods.
For many internet businesses, presenting a given list of items in an order that maximizes a certain metric of interest (e.g., click-through-rate, average engagement time etc.) is crucial. We approach the aforementioned task from a learning-to-rank perspective which reveals a new problem setup. In traditional learning-t…
Towards the global vision of engagement of Generation Z at the workplace: Mathematical modelingecon.GN
Mathematical models reveal key factors for engaging Gen Z at work.
problem Understanding and improving engagement of Generation Z employees.
method Correlation and cluster analyses on engagement surveys.
result Clear responsibilities and challenging work are essential for Gen Z employees.
Paper proposes a method to aggregate customer engagement data for better ranking of e-commerce results.
problem Cold start problem and under-representation of new or under-impressed products in e-commerce search results.
method Aggregates customer engagements within a day for the same query as input training data for machine learning models.
result Training models on aggregated data leads to better ranking of new and under-impressed products.
FATE predicts user engagement on social apps with explainable explanations.
problem Accurate user engagement prediction for social apps with explainability.
method FATE, a flexible neural framework incorporating friendships, actions, and temporal dynamics.
result FATE outperforms state-of-the-art approaches by 10% error and 20% runtime reduction.
Study analyzes global public sentiment on DeFi from 2012-2022.
problem Global public sentiment on DeFi is understudied.
method Sentiment analysis, spatial econometrics, clustering, topic modeling.
result Economic development significantly influences DeFi engagement, especially after 2015.
VLEngagement: A Dataset of Scientific Video Lectures for Evaluating Population-based Engagementcs.CY
A dataset for evaluating engagement with scientific video lectures.
problem Challenges in managing learning resources due to rapid creation of video lectures.
method Introduction of VLEngagement dataset with content-based and video-specific features, and metrics related to user engagement.
result The largest and most diverse publicly available dataset for understanding context-agnostic engagement in video lectures.
Characterizing and Forecasting User Engagement with In-app Action Graph: A Case Study of Snapchatcs.LG
While mobile social apps have become increasingly important in people's daily life, we have limited understanding on what motivates users to engage with these apps. In this paper, we answer the question whether users' in-app activity patterns help inform their future app engagement (e.g., active days in a future time w…
New AI stock indices classify firms' AI engagement using 10-K filings.
problem Opaque AI selection criteria in existing ETFs.
method NLP analysis of 10-K filings to classify AI stocks.
result Companies with higher AI engagement have greater positive returns.
We propose a multimodal approach for detection of students' behavioral engagement states (i.e., On-Task vs. Off-Task), based on three unobtrusive modalities: Appearance, Context-Performance, and Mouse. Final behavioral engagement states are achieved by fusing modality-specific classifiers at the decision level. Various…
Topologically and geometrically engaging actions have proved to be useful to obtain rigidity results for semisimple Lie group actions. We show that the action of a simple noncompact Lie group on a compact manifold preserving a unimodular rigid geometric structure of algebraic type (e.g. a connection together with a vol…
The health outcomes of high-need patients can be substantially influenced by the degree of patient engagement in their own care. The role of care managers includes that of enrolling patients into care programs and keeping them sufficiently engaged in the program, so that patients can attain various goals. The attainmen…
To investigate the detection of students' behavioral engagement (On-Task vs. Off-Task), we propose a two-phase approach in this study. In Phase 1, contextual logs (URLs) are utilized to assess active usage of the content platform. If there is active use, the appearance information is utilized in Phase 2 to infer behavi…
New framework optimizes for 'value' rather than engagement.
problem Gap between engagement signals and desired notion of 'value'.
method Measurement theory framework, latent variable model, qualitative evaluation.
result Operationalizes and optimizes for a desired notion of 'value'.
D2KLab's approach predicts tweet engagement using two stages.
problem Predicting user engagement with tweets.
method Two-stage approach: feature learning and ensemble XGBoost.
result Ranked 22 in the 2020 RecSys Challenge leaderboard.
Impersonators on Online Social Networks such as Instagram are playing an important role in the propagation of the content. These entities are the type of nefarious fake accounts that intend to disguise a legitimate account by making similar profiles. In addition to having impersonated profiles, we observed a considerab…
Study analyzes factors influencing healthcare providers' engagement with SMS campaigns.
problem Understanding what drives healthcare providers to engage with SMS campaigns.
method Used logistic regression, random forest, and neural network models to analyze data.
result Identified key factors influencing engagement with SMS campaigns.
Study user engagement in mobile health apps for health workers in resource-poor settings.
problem Detect churn and tailor content for health workers in mobile health apps.
method Probabilistic and survival analysis of behavioral logs.
result Personalized measures of meaningful engagement can enhance health outcomes.
Gamification enhances law enforcement training on terrorism financing.
problem Complex technologies limit engagement in fighting cyber-criminal activities.
method Combining learning and training methods with gamification.
result Participants show increased expertise and positive feedback.
Twitter releases dataset to study user engagement on Home Timeline, focusing on privacy.
problem Limited exploration of user feedback on Twitter's Home Timeline.
method Release of a large-scale dataset of 160 million Tweets with engagement information.
result Demonstrates challenges in predicting user engagements and privacy concerns.
Online surveys have the potential to support adaptive questions, where later questions depend on earlier responses. Past work has taken a rule-based approach, uniformly across all respondents. We envision a richer interpretation of adaptive questions, which we call dynamic question ordering (DQO), where question order …
Personal assistant AI systems such as Siri, Cortana, and Alexa have become widely used as a means to accomplish tasks through natural language commands. However, components in these systems generally rely on supervised machine learning algorithms that require large amounts of hand-annotated training data, which is expe…
Charities can increase donations by targeting optimal recipients.
problem Ineffective fundraising leads to lower resources for goods.
method Combines field experiment and causal machine-learning approach.
result Machine-learning-based optimal targeting increases donations significantly.
How does supply uncertainty affect the structure of supply chain networks? To answer this question we consider a setting where retailers and suppliers must establish a costly relationship with each other prior to engaging in trade. Suppliers, with uncertain yield, announce wholesale prices, while retailers must decide …
Modelling Early User-Game Interactions for Joint Estimation of Survival Time and Churn Probabilitycs.LG
Data-driven approaches which aim to identify and predict player engagement are becoming increasingly popular in games industry contexts. This is due to the growing practice of tracking and storing large volumes of in-game telemetries coupled with a desire to tailor the gaming experience to the end-user's needs. These a…
US firms improve ESG performance in response to China trade shock.
problem Impact of China trade shock on US ESG performance.
method Trade policy experiment exploiting tariff changes.
result Greater import competition from China increases US firm ESG performance.
The paper proposes a survival model to optimize mobile notification delivery times.
problem Inappropriate notification timing and interruptions lead to user complaints.
method Developed a state transition framework and a survival model with log-linear and Weibull structures.
result The survival model outperforms logistic regression in prediction accuracy.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), autonomously-guided aircraft, are widely used for tasks involving surveillance and reconnaissance. A version of the pursuit-evasion problems centered around UAVs and its variants has been extensively studied in recent years due to numerous breakthroughs in AI. We present an approach to …
Model predicts ESG ratings from news articles using multivariate timeseries analysis.
problem Lack of accurate and automated methods for ESG ratings prediction.
method Multivariate timeseries analysis combined with deep learning.
result Model outperforms state-of-the-art methods in predicting ESG ratings.
New approach to disentangle utility from impulse in recommendation systems.
problem Difficulty in inferring user utility from engagement signals.
method Generative model based on self-exciting Hawkes process to infer utility from return probability.
result It is possible to disentangle System-1 and System-2 decision processes to optimize content based on user utility.
Spotify improves content mix using contextual bandits.
problem Skewed historical data and varying user preferences across contexts.
method Contextual bandits to dynamically learn optimal content type distribution.
result Improved precision and user engagement with under-represented content types.
Bitcoin volatility can be predicted from price and alternative data.
problem Predicting Bitcoin volatility from market data.
method Modeling Bitcoin volatility using price, volatility momentum, and alternative data like sentiment and engagement.
result Bitcoin volatility can be predicted with a lag of several hours.
The possibility of using player engagement predictions to profile high spending video game users is explored. In particular, individual-player survival curves in terms of days after first login, game level reached and accumulated playtime are used to classify players into different groups. Lifetime value predictions fo…
Learning to Infer Unobserved Behaviors: Estimating User's Preference for a Site over Other Sitescs.IR
Estimates users' preference for a site over others using engagement data.
problem Lack of data on users' interactions with other sites makes it hard to estimate preferences for a focal site.
method Uses Hierarchical Bayes Method with two estimation techniques: Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Stochastic Gradient with Langevin Dynamics.
result Good support found for the approach to computing personalized share of engagement.
User engagement in online social networking depends critically on the level of social activity in the corresponding platform--the number of online actions, such as posts, shares or replies, taken by their users. Can we design data-driven algorithms to increase social activity? At a user level, such algorithms may incre…
Study shows activist board representation improves Japanese companies' performance.
problem Lack of innovation and improvement in Japanese companies.
method Examined two Japanese companies with activist board representation, analyzing performance metrics.
result Companies with activist board representation experienced significant improvements in stock returns and operational metrics.
Semantic TrueLearn uses semantic graphs to improve educational recommendation systems.
problem Challenges in handling semantic and hierarchical structure in knowledge areas.
method Introduces a novel learner model that exploits semantic relatedness between knowledge components using a Wikipedia link graph.
result Achieves statistically significant improvements in predictive performance for educational engagement.
Margin trading and short selling boost green tech innovation in China.
problem Encouraging green technology innovation in Chinese companies.
method Quasi-experimental research using panel data of Chinese listed companies, double difference model.
result Margin trading and short selling increase green tech innovation significantly.
Organic updates (from a member's network) and sponsored updates (or ads, from advertisers) together form the newsfeed on LinkedIn. The newsfeed, the default homepage for members, attracts them to engage, brings them value and helps LinkedIn grow. Engagement and Revenue on feed are two critical, yet often conflicting ob…
Decodes neural activity to detect context effects in natural settings.
problem Detecting context-dependent changes in neural encoding.
method Decoding-based approach controlling for confounding factors.
result Demonstrates context-dependent changes in neural encoding.