Publications

2024

Ferguson, S.*, Massimi, M. Circle Back Next Week: The Effect of Meeting-Free Weeks on Distributed Workers’ Unstructured Time and Attention Negotiation. Accepted to the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2024. View here
Ferguson, S., Van de Zande, G., Olechowski, A. No Risk, No Reward: Towards An Automatedn Measure of Psychological Safety from Online Communication. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Late Breaking Work, 2024. View here

Ferguson, S.*, Olechowski, A. Are We Equal Online?: An Investigation of Gendered Language Patterns and Message Engagement on Enterprise Communication Platforms. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2023. View here
Flus, M.*, Ferguson, S., Olechowski, A. Let’s take this offline: a thematic analysis of virtual conflict in hybrid collaborative design teams International Conference on Engineering Design, 2023. View here
Ferguson, S., van Velzen, E., Olechowski, A. Team and Communication Impacts of Remote Work for Complex Aerospace System Development. Systems Engineering, 2023. View here
Mao, K.,Ferguson, S.*, Magarian, J., Olechowski, A. ‘Just a little bit on the outside for the whole time’: Social belonging confidence and the persistence of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence students American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2023. View here
Ferguson, S., Aoyagui, PA., Kuzminykh, A. Something Borrowed: Exploring the Influence of AI-Generated Explanation Text on the Composition of Human Explanations ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023. View here
Ferguson, S. Olechowski, A. “Measuring Gendered Communication Patterns on Enterprise Communication Platforms”. ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work, Poster, 2023. View here

Ferguson, S., Lai, K., Chen, J., Faidi, S., Leonardo, K., Olechowski, A. “‘Why couldn’t we do this more often?’: exploring the feasibility of virtual and distributed work in product design engineering”. Res Eng Design (2022). View article here or view my summary article on Medium
Ferguson, S., Cheng, K., Adolphe, L., Van de Zande, G., Wallace, D., Olechowski, A. “Communication Patterns in Engineering Enterprise Social Networks: An Exploratory Analysis using Short Text Topic Modelling,” Design Science 8 (2022), e18. View article here or view my summary article on Medium
Ferguson, S., Mao, K., Magarian, J., Olechowski, A. “Advancing a Model of Students’ Intentional Persistence in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.” Accepted to the American Society of Engineering Education annual conference, 2022 View here

Ferguson, S., Aoyagui, PA., Rizvi, R., Kim, Y-H., Kuzminykh, A. The Explanation That Hits Home: The Characteristics of Verbal Explanations That Affect Human Perception in Subjective Decision-Making. Accepted to Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW).
Naghshbandi, M., Ferguson, S., Olechowski, A. Social Capital and Persistence in Computer Science of Google’s Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI) Students Accepted at the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2024

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