People with disabilities (PWD) and their family members often find it difficult to find information about available services. One of the approaches to address this information access problem is by understanding the ecology of available information …
*Purpose:* Adolescent school dropout remains a major concern in the United States, accounting for 5.3% of the entire high school students in 2022. This study aims to investigate the relationships between socioeconomic status (SES), the availability …
This study examines the dynamics of local community gatherings facilitated by EventBased Social Networking platforms, a growing mode of social interaction in urban settings. While these platforms are increasingly used to organize real-world events, …
In November 2023, OpenAI released GPT- 4V(ision), which includes Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities. Given that much of the data curation, processing, and cleaning can be managed through user-friendly prompts (i.e., chat), we aim to …
As event-based social networks (EBSNs) such as Meetup.com and Facebook Events gain popularity in managing local events like farmers' markets and social gatherings, they create two-sided cultural niches where event organizers and participants benefit …
The 311 system has been deployed in many U.S. cities to manage non-emergency civic issues such as noise and illegal parking. To assess the performance of 311-mediated public service provision, researchers developed models based on execution time and …