WS-DL Group, ODU CS

Web Science & Digital Libraries Research Group, Old Dominion Univ Dept of CS (@oducs)
Fac: @phonedude_mln @weiglemc @openmaze @fanchyna @vikas_daveb @Faryane

[Yasasi @Yasasi_Abey]

Excited to share that I’m starting a Visiting Researcher position at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, affiliated with @harvardmed! Looking forward to eye-tracking research in medical simulation and clinical practice.🚀
@bethisraellahey @NirdsLab @WebSciDL @oducs @ODUSCI @odu

[Kumushini Thennakoon @KumushiniT]

Our colleague @kaypineda3 from @NirdsLab is presenting her Master’s thesis defense! 🎓
Her work “Framework for In-View Drone Navigation Using Gaze Gestures” explores the potential of human–drone interaction through gaze-based controls.
@OpenMaze @WebSciDL @oducs

[Kumushini Thennakoon @KumushiniT]

PhD Candidacy ✅
I'm happy to announce that I successfully completed my PhD candidacy exam. Grateful for my advisor @OpenMaze, my committee @phonedude_mln, @weiglemc, @fanchyna, @vikas_daveb, my colleagues from @NirdsLab and @WebSciDL for the continued support.
@oducs @ODUSCI

[Yasasi @Yasasi_Abey]

.@KumushiniT from @NirdsLab is now presenting her paper titled "Modeling Joint Visual Attention through 3D Gaze Convergence", as the oral component of her PhD candidacy exam. 📚
@OpenMaze @WebSciDL @oducs @ODUSCI

[Tarannum Zaki @tarannum_zaki]

🎉 Delighted to share that I won the award for "Best Presentation" in Research Short category for the talk on "Framework for Finding Attribution in Social Media Screenshots" 🏆

@WebSciDL @oducs

[Tarannum Zaki @tarannum_zaki]

📍Day 2 @capwic #CAPWIC2026!

🗣️ Excited to talk about our research on "Framework for Finding Attribution of Social Media Screenshots" in the Research Short session of Cybersecurity, Trust & Resilience!

#WomenInComputing #VT_IAC @virginia_tech @WebSciDL @oducs #SocialMedia

[Tarannum Zaki @tarannum_zaki]

💡Use Reverse TweetedAt tool to derive a tweet ID prefix from an input datetime across different levels of granularity! 🕒 ➡️ 🆔

Learn more:👇
https://t.co/Ae9O8AWFKG

@WebSciDL @oducs #WebArchives

[Pasindu S. Thenahandi @Psnd_Snklp]

Excited to present my research on "Multi-User Eye Tracking" today at the PhD Gathering!

#ODUSCI #ODU #Sciences #GraduateSchool @NirdsLab @WebSciDL

[Akshay K Nayak @AkshayKNayak7]

Dr. Gavindya Jayawardena is now presenting “EFFECTS OF
WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY AND SEARCH TASK COMPLEXITY
ON COGNITIVE LOAD” at #CHIIR2026
@accessodu @WebSciDL

[Akshay K Nayak @AkshayKNayak7]

Attending the #CHIIR2026 in University of Washington. @WebSciDL @ACM_CHIIR @accessodu

[Sir Lawrence @LObiuwevwi]

Excited to share that our poster paper (extended abstract) has been accepted to the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26) 🎉

The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the leading international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. CHI 2026 will take place in Barcelona at the Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona.

Our work, “Cognitive Prosthetic: An AI-Enabled Multimodal System for Episodic Recall in Knowledge Work,” introduces the Cognitive Prosthetic Multimodal System (CPMS) — a proof-of-concept system that integrates speech, physiological, and gaze data to enable structured, AI-powered episodic memory retrieval in knowledge work environments.

This research explores how multimodal sensing combined with natural language interfaces can move beyond passive data logging toward AI-enabled reflective memory augmentation.

Looking forward to presenting this work and engaging with the CHI community in April 2026.

Link to paper: https://t.co/SbxriYyN7J

#CHI2026 #HumanComputerInteraction #ACM #AI #MultimodalSystems #FutureOfWork #ODUSC I #ODU #Sciences #Graduateschool @NirdsLab @WebSciDL

[James Ecker @jimmy_ecker]

Today I presented an aerospace test application of my ALICE knowledge graph AI architecture to the NASA Armstrong Ideas to Flight Workshop. This work leverages ALICE for casting flight operation documentation into an AI knowledge base to provide real time flight ops evaluation. @WebSciDL @oducs

https://t.co/qOHQgiBglZ

[Hussam Hallak @Hussam_A_Hallak]

I presented our work on Arabic and English news URIs dataset collection, news web pages' archival rate and comparing web archives' holdings at the 10th Computational Archival Science (CAS) Workshop (part of IEEE BigData 2025). @WebSciDL
Trip report: https://t.co/Wl0HKaoRiJ

[Kritika garg @kritika_garg]

I’m honored to receive the Dr. Irwin B. Levinstein Scholarship, awarded to graduate students for their academic achievements by @ODU! 🎓

A big thanks to Dr. Michael Nelson (@phonedude_mln) and everyone at @WebSciDL for their valuable support! 🙌

@oducs @ODUSCI

[Akshay K Nayak @AkshayKNayak7]

Presented our work “Examining Inclusive Computing Education for Blind Students in India” at #SIGCSE2026
@accessodu @WebSciDL @oducs

[Kumushini Thennakoon @KumushiniT]

Big milestone for @Yasasi_Abey from @NirdsLab as she presents her PhD prospectus today. Excited to see her research vision take the next big step forward. 🎉📚

@WebSciDL @OpenMaze

[Travis Reid @TReid803]

For this blog post, I summarized Tessa Walsh, Henry Wilkinson, and @IlyaKreymer's paper, “High Fidelity Web Archiving of News Sites and New Media with Browsertrix.”

@WebSciDL
https://t.co/EfBmhJiAQA

[Hussam Hallak @Hussam_A_Hallak]

My most recent blog post: How to archive web pages in bulk using the Internet Archive Google Sheets service. The post simplifies the process and provides a python script to create and populate multiple Google Sheets with URLs saved in a text file https://t.co/5XaOoeUJx9 @WebSciDL

[Tarannum Zaki @tarannum_zaki]

🤔Did you know the furthest time zones on Earth can be 26 hours apart, not just 24? 🌎🕓
This has real implications for interpreting timestamps in Twitter screenshots and searching tweets in web archives across time zones.

👉https://t.co/EnAyht2b2E

@WebSciDL @oducs #WebArchives

[Travis Reid @TReid803]

In this blog post, I summarized Brenda Reyes Ayala's (@CamtheWicked) paper "Towards a better QA process: Automatic detection of quality problems in archived websites using visual comparisons".

@WebSciDL
https://t.co/2kfrOR21lv