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On Stress: Combining Human Factors and Biosignals to Inform the Placement and Design of a Skin-like Stress Sensor
Yasser Khan
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, United States
,Matthew Louis Mauriello
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, United States
,Parsa Nowruzi
Pervasive Wellbeing Technology Lab, Stanford University, United States
,Akshara Motani
Pervasive Wellbeing Technology, Stanford University, United States
,Grace Hon
Pervasive Wellbeing Technology Lab, Stanford University, United States
,Nicholas Vitale
Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, United States
,Jinxing Li
Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, United States
,Jayoung Kim
Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, United States
,Amir Foudeh
Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, United States
,Dalton Duvio
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, United States
,Erika Shols
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, United States
,Megan Chesnut
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, United States
,James A. Landay
Computer Science Department, Stanford University, United States
,Jan Liphardt
Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, United States
,Leanne Williams
c Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, United States
,Keith D. Sudheimer
Department of Anatomy, Southern Illinois University, United States
,Boris Murmann
Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, United States
,Zhenan Bao
Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, United States
,Pablo E Paredes
Toyota Research Institute, United States and Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems•May 2024, Article No.: 997, pp 1-13• https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3643473With advances in electronic-skin and wearable technologies, it is possible to continuously measure stress markers from the skin and sweat to monitor and improve wellbeing and health. Understandably, the sensor’s engineering and resolution are important ...
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Effects of a Co-Located Robot and Anthropomorphism on Human Motivation and Emotion across Personality and Gender
Lawrence H. Kim
Simon Fraser University,School of Computing Science
,Veronika Domova
Stanford University,Department of Mechanical Engineering
,Yuqi Yao
Stanford University,School of Education
,Pablo E. Paredes
Stanford University,School of Medicine,Department of Psychiatry
2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)•August 2022, pp 155-162• https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900694In this paper, we study how a co-located robot affects human motivation and emotion. In particular, we examine the role of the co-located robot’s anthropomorphism, as well as the effects of the human’s personality and gender. To study this, ...
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SAD: A Stress Annotated Dataset for Recognizing Everyday Stressors in SMS-like Conversational Systems
Matthew Louis Mauriello
Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Delaware, United States
,Thierry Lincoln
Pervasive Wellbeing Technology Lab Stanford University, United States
,Grace Hon
Pervasive Wellbeing Technology Lab Stanford University, United States
,Dorien Simon
Pervasive Wellbeing Technology Lab Stanford University, United States
,Dan Jurafsky
Linguistics Stanford University, United States
,Pablo Paredes
School of Medicine Stanford University, United States
CHI EA '21: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems•May 2021, Article No.: 399, pp 1-7• https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3451799There is limited infrastructure for providing stress management services to those in need. To address this problem, chatbots are viewed as a scalable solution. However, one limiting factor is having clear definitions and examples of daily stress on ...
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The Haunted Desk: Exploring Non-Volitional Behavior Change with Everyday Robotics
Lawrence H. Kim
Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
,Annel Amelia Leon
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
,Ganapathy Sankararaman
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
,Blake M. Jones
Stanford University, Stanfrod, CA, USA
,Gourab Saha
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
,Amanda Spyropolous
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
,Akshara Motani
Stanford University, Stanford, Palo Alto , CA, USA
,Matthew Louis Mauriello
Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
,Pablo E. Paredes
Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
HRI '21 Companion: Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction•March 2021, pp 71-75• https://doi.org/10.1145/3434074.3447131We introduce and explore the concept of non-volitional behavior change, a novel category of behavior change interventions, and apply it in the context of promoting healthy behaviors through an automated sit-stand desk. While routine use of sit-stand ...
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Calm Commute: Guided Slow Breathing for Daily Stress Management in Drivers
Stephanie Balters
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
,Matthew L. Mauriello
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
,So Yeon Park
School of Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
,James A. Landay
Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
,Pablo E. Paredes
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Volume 4, Issue 1•March 2020, Article No.: 38, pp 1-19 • https://doi.org/10.1145/3380998Commutes provide an opportune time and space for interventions that mitigate stress-particularly stress accumulated during the workday. In this study, we test the efficacy and safety of haptic guided slow breathing interventions of short duration while ...
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On-road Stress Analysis for In-car Interventions During the Commute
Stephanie Balters
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
,Madeline Bernstein
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
,Pablo E. Paredes
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
CHI EA '19: Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems•May 2019, Paper No.: LBW2110, pp 1-6• https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312824This paper focuses on the larger question of when to administer in-car just-in-time stress management interventions. We look at the influence of driving-related stress to find the right time to provide personalized and contextually-aware interventions. ...
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On-road Guided Slow Breathing Interventions for Car Commuters
Stephanie Balters
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
,James A. Landay
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
,Pablo E. Paredes
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
CHI EA '19: Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems•May 2019, Paper No.: LBW2111, pp 1-5• https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312785This is the first on-road study testing the efficacy and safety of guided slow breathing interventions in a car. This paper presents design and experimental implications when evolving from prior simulator to on-road scenarios. We ran a controlled study (...
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Driving with the Fishes: Towards Calming and Mindful Virtual Reality Experiences for the Car
Pablo E. Paredes
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
,Stephanie Balters
NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
,Kyle Qian
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
,Elizabeth L. Murnane
Stanford University, Stanford, USA
,Francisco Ordóñez
Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Quito, Ecuador
,Wendy Ju
Cornell Tech, New York City, USA
,James A. Landay
Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Volume 2, Issue 4•December 2018, Article No.: 184, pp 1-21 • https://doi.org/10.1145/3287062We present the use of in-car virtual reality (VR) as a way to create calm, mindful experiences for passengers and, someday, autonomous vehicle occupants. Specifically, we describe a series of studies aimed at exploring appropriate VR content, ...
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Breath Booster!: Exploring In-Car, Fast-Paced Breathing Interventions to Enhance Driver Arousal State
Stephanie Balters
School of Medicine, Stanford University
,Elizabeth L. Murnane
Computer Science, Stanford University
,James A. Landay
Computer Science, Stanford University
,Pablo E. Paredes
School of Medicine, Stanford University
PervasiveHealth '18: Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare•May 2018, pp 128-137• https://doi.org/10.1145/3240925.3240939In this paper, we explore the delivery of fast breathing interventions in a driving context, given the proven effects of high-paced breathing on autonomic arousal. Through in-lab simulator studies, we demonstrate the feasibility of using haptic guidance ...
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Fast & Furious: Detecting Stress with a Car Steering Wheel
Pablo E. Paredes
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
,Francisco Ordonez
Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
,Wendy Ju
Cornell Tech, New York City, NY, USA
,James A. Landay
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems•April 2018, Paper No.: 665, pp 1-12• https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174239Stress affects the lives of millions of people every day. In-situ sensing could enable just-in-time stress management interventions. We present the first work to detect stress using the movements of a car's existing steering wheel. We extend prior work ...
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Just Breathe: In-Car Interventions for Guided Slow Breathing
Pablo E. Paredes
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, US
,Yijun Zhou
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, US
,Nur Al-Huda Hamdan
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
,Stephanie Balters
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
,Elizabeth Murnane
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, US
,Wendy Ju
Cornell Tech, New York NY
,James A. Landay
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, US
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Volume 2, Issue 1•March 2018, Article No.: 28, pp 1-23 • https://doi.org/10.1145/3191760Motivated by the idea that slow breathing practices could transform the automobile commute from a depleting, mindless activity into a calming, mindful experience, we introduce the first guided slow breathing intervention for drivers. We describe a ...
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INQUIRE Tool: Early Insight Discovery for Qualitative Research
Pablo Paredes
Stanford University, Stanfors, CA, USA
,Vasilis Oikonomou
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
,Rocio Francesca Guerrero
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
,Terrie Yang
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
,Pierre Karashchu
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
,Biye Jiang
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
,James Landay
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
,Coye Cheshire
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
,John Canny
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
CSCW '17 Companion: Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing•February 2017, pp 29-32• https://doi.org/10.1145/3022198.3023272This demo presents an instance of Inquire, a tool designed to support qualitative researchers in the early stages of research. The tool enables the search over millions of users' records to extract early insights to aid in the formulation of research ...
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Inquire: Large-scale Early Insight Discovery for Qualitative Research
Pablo Paredes
University of California, Berkeley & Stanford University, Berkeley , CA, USA
,Ana Rufino Ferreira
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
,Cory Schillaci
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
,Gene Yoo
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
,Pierre Karashchuk
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
,Dennis Xing
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
,Coye Cheshire
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
,John Canny
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
CSCW '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing•February 2017, pp 1562-1575• https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998363We introduce Inquire, a tool designed to enable qualitative exploration of utterances in social media and large-scale texts. As opposed to keyword search, Inquire allows the effective use of sentences as queries to quickly explore millions of documents ...
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Fiat-Lux: Interactive Urban Lights for Combining Positive Emotion and Efficiency
Pablo Paredes
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley , CA, USA
,Ryuka Ko
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
,Eduardo Calle-Ortiz
Universidad Politecnica Salesiana, Cuenca, Ecuador
,John Canny
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
,Björn Hartmann
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
,Greg Niemeyer
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
DIS '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems•June 2016, pp 785-795• https://doi.org/10.1145/2901790.2901832We fuse science and design thinking to create a novel, IoT interactive urban lights system focused on increasing positive affect among pedestrians. Our contributions are three-fold. First, the design, construction, and evaluation of an efficient ...
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Synestouch: Haptic + audio affective design for wearable devices
Pablo Paredes
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Linguistics Department, School of Information University of California - Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA
,Ryuka Ko
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Linguistics Department, School of Information University of California - Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA
,Arezu Aghaseyedjavadi
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Linguistics Department, School of Information University of California - Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA
,John Chuang
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Linguistics Department, School of Information University of California - Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA
,Linda Babler
School of Information, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
,John Canny
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Linguistics Department, School of Information University of California - Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA
ACII '15: Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII)•September 2015, pp 595-601• https://doi.org/10.1109/ACII.2015.7344630Little is known about the affective expressivity of multisensory stimuli in wearable devices. While the theory of emotion has referenced single stimulus and multisensory experiments, it does not go further to explain the potential effects of sensorial ...
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PopTherapy: coping with stress through pop-culture
Pablo Paredes
EECS, UC Berkeley
,Ran Gilad-Bachrach
Microsoft Research
,Mary Czerwinski
Microsoft Research
,Asta Roseway
Microsoft Research
,Kael Rowan
Microsoft Research
,Javier Hernandez
Media Lab, MIT
PervasiveHealth '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare•May 2014, pp 109-117• https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255070Stress is considered to be a modern day "global epidemic"; so given the widespread nature of this problem, it would be beneficial if solutions that help people to learn how to cope better with stress were scalable beyond what individual or group ...
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MouStress: detecting stress from mouse motion
David Sun
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley & Accenture Technology Labs, San Jose, CA, USA
,Pablo Paredes
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept., University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
,John Canny
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
CHI '14: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems•April 2014, pp 61-70• https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557243Stress causes and exacerbates many physiological and mental health problems. Routine and unobtrusive monitoring of stress would enable a variety of treatments, from break-taking to calming exercises. It may also be a valuable tool for assessing effects (...
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Under pressure: sensing stress of computer users
Javier Hernandez
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
,Pablo Paredes
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept., Berkeley , CA, USA
,Asta Roseway
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
,Mary Czerwinski
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
CHI '14: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems•April 2014, pp 51-60• https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557165Recognizing when computer users are stressed can help reduce their frustration and prevent a large variety of negative health conditions associated with chronic stress. However, measuring stress non-invasively and continuously at work remains an open ...
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Sensor-less sensing for affective computing and stress management technology
Pablo Paredes
Electrical Engineering and Computer, UC Berkeley
,David Sun
Electrical Engineering and Computer, UC Berkeley
,John Canny
Electrical Engineering and Computer, UC Berkeley
PervasiveHealth '13: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare•May 2013, pp 459-463• https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2013.252380This paper describes our vision on what should be the research around sensing and adaptive interventions to make affective computing and stress management technology pervasive and unobtrusive. With the use of common computer peripherals and mobile ...
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CalmMeNow: exploratory research and design of stress mitigating mobile interventions
Pablo Paredes
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
,Matthew Chan
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
CHI EA '11: CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems•May 2011, pp 1699-1704• https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979831This paper describes design explorations for stress mitigation on mobile devices based on three types of interventions: haptic feedback, games and social networks. The paper offers a qualitative assessment of the usability of these three types of ...
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ACM Author-Izer Service
Summary Description
ACM Author-Izer is a unique service that enables ACM authors to generate and post links on both their homepage and institutional repository for visitors to download the definitive version of their articles from the ACM Digital Library at no charge.
Downloads from these sites are captured in official ACM statistics, improving the accuracy of usage and impact measurements. Consistently linking to definitive version of ACM articles should reduce user confusion over article versioning.
ACM Author-Izer also extends ACM’s reputation as an innovative “Green Path” publisher, making ACM one of the first publishers of scholarly works to offer this model to its authors.
To access ACM Author-Izer, authors need to establish a free ACM web account. Should authors change institutions or sites, they can utilize the new ACM service to disable old links and re-authorize new links for free downloads from a different site.
How ACM Author-Izer Works
Authors may post ACM Author-Izer links in their own bibliographies maintained on their website and their own institution’s repository. The links take visitors to your page directly to the definitive version of individual articles inside the ACM Digital Library to download these articles for free.
The Service can be applied to all the articles you have ever published with ACM.
Depending on your previous activities within the ACM DL, you may need to take up to three steps to use ACM Author-Izer.
For authors who do not have a free ACM Web Account:
- Go to the ACM DL http://dl.acm.org/ and click SIGN UP. Once your account is established, proceed to next step.
For authors who have an ACM web account, but have not edited their ACM Author Profile page:
- Sign in to your ACM web account and go to your Author Profile page. Click "Add personal information" and add photograph, homepage address, etc. Click ADD AUTHOR INFORMATION to submit change. Once you receive email notification that your changes were accepted, you may utilize ACM Author-izer.
For authors who have an account and have already edited their Profile Page:
- Sign in to your ACM web account, go to your Author Profile page in the Digital Library, look for the ACM Author-izer link below each ACM published article, and begin the authorization process. If you have published many ACM articles, you may find a batch Authorization process useful. It is labeled: "Export as: ACM Author-Izer Service"
ACM Author-Izer also provides code snippets for authors to display download and citation statistics for each “authorized” article on their personal pages. Downloads from these pages are captured in official ACM statistics, improving the accuracy of usage and impact measurements. Consistently linking to the definitive version of ACM articles should reduce user confusion over article versioning.
Note: You still retain the right to post your author-prepared preprint versions on your home pages and in your institutional repositories with DOI pointers to the definitive version permanently maintained in the ACM Digital Library. But any download of your preprint versions will not be counted in ACM usage statistics. If you use these AUTHOR-IZER links instead, usage by visitors to your page will be recorded in the ACM Digital Library and displayed on your page.
FAQ
- Q. What is ACM Author-Izer?
A. ACM Author-Izer is a unique, link-based, self-archiving service that enables ACM authors to generate and post links on either their home page or institutional repository for visitors to download the definitive version of their articles for free.
- Q. What articles are eligible for ACM Author-Izer?
- A. ACM Author-Izer can be applied to all the articles authors have ever published with ACM. It is also available to authors who will have articles published in ACM publications in the future.
- Q. Are there any restrictions on authors to use this service?
- A. No. An author does not need to subscribe to the ACM Digital Library nor even be a member of ACM.
- Q. What are the requirements to use this service?
- A. To access ACM Author-Izer, authors need to have a free ACM web account, must have an ACM Author Profile page in the Digital Library, and must take ownership of their Author Profile page.
- Q. What is an ACM Author Profile Page?
- A. The Author Profile Page initially collects all the professional information known about authors from the publications record as known by the ACM Digital Library. The Author Profile Page supplies a quick snapshot of an author's contribution to the field and some rudimentary measures of influence upon it. Over time, the contents of the Author Profile page may expand at the direction of the community. Please visit the ACM Author Profile documentation page for more background information on these pages.
- Q. How do I find my Author Profile page and take ownership?
- A. You will need to take the following steps:
- Create a free ACM Web Account
- Sign-In to the ACM Digital Library
- Find your Author Profile Page by searching the ACM Digital Library for your name
- Find the result you authored (where your author name is a clickable link)
- Click on your name to go to the Author Profile Page
- Click the "Add Personal Information" link on the Author Profile Page
- Wait for ACM review and approval; generally less than 24 hours
- Q. Why does my photo not appear?
- A. Make sure that the image you submit is in .jpg or .gif format and that the file name does not contain special characters
- Q. What if I cannot find the Add Personal Information function on my author page?
- A. The ACM account linked to your profile page is different than the one you are logged into. Please logout and login to the account associated with your Author Profile Page.
- Q. What happens if an author changes the location of his bibliography or moves to a new institution?
- A. Should authors change institutions or sites, they can utilize ACM Author-Izer to disable old links and re-authorize new links for free downloads from a new location.
- Q. What happens if an author provides a URL that redirects to the author’s personal bibliography page?
- A. The service will not provide a free download from the ACM Digital Library. Instead the person who uses that link will simply go to the Citation Page for that article in the ACM Digital Library where the article may be accessed under the usual subscription rules.
However, if the author provides the target page URL, any link that redirects to that target page will enable a free download from the Service.
- Q. What happens if the author’s bibliography lives on a page with several aliases?
- A. Only one alias will work, whichever one is registered as the page containing the author’s bibliography. ACM has no technical solution to this problem at this time.
- Q. Why should authors use ACM Author-Izer?
- A. ACM Author-Izer lets visitors to authors’ personal home pages download articles for no charge from the ACM Digital Library. It allows authors to dynamically display real-time download and citation statistics for each “authorized” article on their personal site.
- Q. Does ACM Author-Izer provide benefits for authors?
- A. Downloads of definitive articles via Author-Izer links on the authors’ personal web page are captured in official ACM statistics to more accurately reflect usage and impact measurements.
Authors who do not use ACM Author-Izer links will not have downloads from their local, personal bibliographies counted. They do, however, retain the existing right to post author-prepared preprint versions on their home pages or institutional repositories with DOI pointers to the definitive version permanently maintained in the ACM Digital Library.
- Q. How does ACM Author-Izer benefit the computing community?
- A. ACM Author-Izer expands the visibility and dissemination of the definitive version of ACM articles. It is based on ACM’s strong belief that the computing community should have the widest possible access to the definitive versions of scholarly literature. By linking authors’ personal bibliography with the ACM Digital Library, user confusion over article versioning should be reduced over time.
In making ACM Author-Izer a free service to both authors and visitors to their websites, ACM is emphasizing its continuing commitment to the interests of its authors and to the computing community in ways that are consistent with its existing subscription-based access model.
- Q. Why can’t I find my most recent publication in my ACM Author Profile Page?
- A. There is a time delay between publication and the process which associates that publication with an Author Profile Page. Right now, that process usually takes 4-8 weeks.
- Q. How does ACM Author-Izer expand ACM’s “Green Path” Access Policies?
- A. ACM Author-Izer extends the rights and permissions that authors retain even after copyright transfer to ACM, which has been among the “greenest” publishers. ACM enables its author community to retain a wide range of rights related to copyright and reuse of materials. They include:
- Posting rights that ensure free access to their work outside the ACM Digital Library and print publications
- Rights to reuse any portion of their work in new works that they may create
- Copyright to artistic images in ACM’s graphics-oriented publications that authors may want to exploit in commercial contexts
- All patent rights, which remain with the original owner