The Center for Complexity and Emerging Technologies (COMET) is an interdisciplinary research laboratory under the Advanced Research Institute for Informatics, Computing, and Networking (AdRIC) at De La Salle University. Our mission is to enhance our understanding of emergent phenomena in real-life systems (i.e. cities, mobility), sociotechnical systems (i.e. social networking sites, Wikipedia), and human-computer interactions. We develop computational models which are then used in the design of interactive tools, information systems, and interaction techniques.

Recent Publications

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WHOA 2021

When the Echo Chamber Shatters: Examining the Use of Community-Specific Language Post-Subreddit Ban

Milo Trujillo, Sam Rosenblatt, Guillermo de Anda Jáuregui, Emily Moog, Briane Paul V. Samson, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne & Allison M. Roth

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CHI 2021

Using Boolean Satisfiability Solvers to Help Reduce Cognitive Load and Improve Decision Making when Creating Common Academic Schedules

Joshua C. Manzano, Adrienne Francesca O. Soliven, Antonio Miguel B. Llamas, Shenn Margareth V. Tinsay, Briane Paul V. Samson & Rafael A. Cabredo

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Philippine Science Letters

Analysis of the co-authorship network of Filipino researchers in deep learning

Angelyn R. Lao, Unisse C. Chua & Briane Paul V. Samson

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Prevention of H5N6 outbreaks in the Philippines using optimal control

Abel G. Lucido, Robert Smith? & Angelyn R. Lao

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Philippine Journal of Science

Drowning Out Rumor: Dynamical Models of the Interaction between Spreaders of and Exposed to Truth and Rumor Spreading

Juan Miguel Augusto M. Feria, Michael Lawrence S. Oliva, Briane Paul V. Samson & Angelyn R. Lao

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CHI 2020 Late-Breaking Work - Hawai'i, USA

Are Two Heads Better than One? Exploring Two-Party Conversations for Car Navigation Voice Guidance

Briane Paul V. Samson & Yasuyuki Sumi

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ViTune: A Visualizer Tool to Allow the Deaf and Hard of Hearing to See Music with Their Eyes

Jordan Aiko Deja, Alexczar Dela Torre, Hans Joshua Lee, Jose Florencio Ciriaco IV & Carlo Miguel Eroles

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Philippine Journal of Science

Drowning Out Rumor: Dynamical Models of the Interaction between Spreaders of and Exposed to Truth and Rumor Spreading

Juan Miguel Augusto M. Feria, Michael Lawrence S. Oliva, Briane Paul V. Samson & Angelyn R. Lao

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CHI 2019 - Glasgow, Scotland UK

Exploring Factors that Influence Connected Drivers to (Not) Use or Follow Recommended Optimal Routes

Briane Paul V. Samson & Yasuyuki Sumi

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Projects

CRNT Polyglot

An online tool to convert differential equations to chemical reactions in CoNtRol, ERNEST, and CRNToolbox formats.

Riesgo-Vis

An interactive visualization that explores the suitability of evacuation centers in Marikina City, Philippines. Grand Prize winner of the VizRisk Challenge 2019.

Code on Github Code Stories on Medium Stories

Updates

• 10/2021

  Welcome and congratulations to the newly promoted members of the Lyrid cohort!

• 12/2020

  Miko Aguilar (Osaka University) successfully defended his doctoral thesis on social networks and opinion dynamics! Congratulations!

• 12/2020

  Our work on reducing cognitive load in academic schedule making using boolean SAT solvers was conditionally accepted for CHI 2021! Kudos to Joshua Manzano, Adrienne Soliven, Shenn Tinsay, Miguel Llamas, Rafael Cabredo and Briane Samson for the first all-Filipino🇵🇭 paper at CHI!

• 12/2020

  Stanley Tan (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology) successfully defended his PhD thesis on computer vision! Congratulations!

• 11/2020

  Unisse Chua and Briane Samson presented the Riesgo Vis project at Pista ng Mapa 2020.

• 10/2020

  The undergraduate group of Ian Ona, Geremiah Marasigan, Romeo Peña and Kyle Santiago received a Bronze medal for Oustanding Undergraduate Thesis. The group of Joshua Manzano, Adrienne Soliven, Shenn Tinsay and Miguel Llamas got special citation after being nominated for the award.

• 9/2020

  Briane Samson received his Doctor of Systems Information Science degree from Future University Hakodate. His dissertation is about encouraging drivers to follow unselfish routes.

• 9/2020

  The Geminid cohort successfully defended their undergraduate thesis! Troy Mirafuentes, Alexczar Dela Torre, and Daniel Lachica also passed their Masters thesis proposal!

• 8/2020

  Our 19 probationary members are now promoted as part of the Perseid cohort! Congratulations and please watch out for their upcoming research projects! 🎉🎉

• 4/2020

  In the recently concluded Asian CHI Symposium 2020, our faculty and student researchers presented their recent works on the use of two-party conversations for car navigation voice guidance, on improving open data portals, and on understanding features for teaching DevOps to university students.

• 2/2020

  We have 2 submissions accepted in the CHI 2020 Late-Breaking Works track! One is a pilot study that explores the use of two-party conversations for car navigation voice guidance, while the second explores music visualizations for the deaf.

• 2/2020

  Our project on supporting collaboration in academic course loading was accepted in the 2020 Philippine Computing Science Congress.

• 1/2020

  Our collaboration on using augmented reality for motherboard assembly with the DLSU GAME Lab was accepted to ICVARS 2020!

• 1/2020

  Let's all welcome Unisse Chua as our new center head! 🎉🎉

• 11/2019

  Unisse Chua participated in the recently held ACM SIGCHI SEA Summer School 2019 in Singapore. She was joined by Ethel Ong from the Center for Language Technologies.

• 10/2019

  Our recent paper on modeling the interactions between spreaders of and exposed to truth and rumor is now published in the Philippine Journal of Science!

• 10/2019

  The Riesgo Vis of Unisse Chua and Briane Samson made it to the Longlist of the Information is Beautiful Awards!

• 09/2019

  Austin Fernandez will be joining COMET starting T1 AY2019-2020 as our newest faculty researchers and mentors.

• 08/2019

  Jordan Deja and Briane Samson will be attending the first CSCW Asia Winter School in Kyoto. They will join other young CSCW researchers in developing their research leadership in this area.

• 08/2019

  Unisse Chua and Briane Samson won the VizRisk 2019 Challenge Grand Prize and Best Interaction Design award for their interactive "scrollytelling" visualization entitled Riesgo! It was a science communication effort for the undergraduate thesis of Winfred Villaluna, Darlene Marpa, Tyler Venzon and Benson Polican back in 2018 -- who also won a Gold medal for outstanding thesis.

• 08/2019

  We welcome Prof. Aaron Quigley from University of St Andrews in Scotland UK to share about Ubiquitous User Interfaces. He was jointly sponsored by the ACM Distinguished Speaker Program thru CHI MNL, and De La Salle University.

• 07/2019

  Unisse Chua and Briane Samson are now GitHub Campus Advisor, the first from the Philippines.

• 07/2019

  The Collabo project's abstract was accepted for oral presentation in the Computational Social Science Satellite Workshop at the Conference on Complex Systems 2019.

• 05/2019

  Briane Samson will be co-organizing the 2020 Asian CHI Symposium.

• 05/2019

  We welcome Prof. Huy T. Vo from City University of New York and New York University to share about his works on big data and large scale visualization. He will also be teaching at the 1st Summer School in Data Science of DLSU CCS.

• 05/2019

  We made history as the first Philippine university to present at CHI! Briane Samson will continue serving for the CHI2020 organizing committee for the 2nd year as assistant to the Papers Chairs.

• 05/2019

  Congratulations to our new subject-matter expert for UX -- Jolene, and our new technical specialists -- Brian for Web Development & Git, and Emir for Data Visualization.

• 04/2019

  We started the Tipping Point blog on Medium! You can read the inaugural article of Justin on his analysis of the Game of Thrones interaction network.

• 03/2019

  Unisse Chua will be joining us starting Term 3 of AY 2018-2019! She graduated from NYU CUSP and worked for the Asian Institute of Management.

• 03/2019

  We'll be presenting three papers at CHIuXiD 2019 in Bali, Indonesia!

• 01/2019

  Our work investigating drivers' compliance with navigation apps was accepted to CHI 2019.

• 08/2018

  Anish MS Shrestha will be joining us to kickstart his bioinformatics lab. He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo.

• 08/2018

  Congratulations to Winfred, Darlene, Tyler and Benson for winning the Gold Medal for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis for their work on multi-criteria modeling of evacuation suitability!!

• 07/2018

  We have 1 presentation and 1 poster at HCII 2018!

• 03/2018

  Our work on optimizing road-based transportation networks was accepted to ICCS 2018!

• 03/2018

  Glenn, Justin and Miguel are participating at the NTU Winter School for Complexity Science. This is our 3rd time!

• 03/2018

  We're presenting 2 papers at CHIuXiD 2018 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia!

• 02/2018

  We have 3 work-in-progress posters at Asian CHI Symposium 2018!

• 09/2017

  Briane Samson and Emerico Aguilar started their PhD programs in Future University Hakodate and Osaka University.

• 08/2017

  Congratulations to Winona, Jake and Christian for their Silver Medal for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis!! They extended the Four-Step travel demand model to consider land use and number of amenities.

• 06/2017

  We're presenting our work on crowd dynamics modeling for metro stations at ICCS 2017.

• 05/2017

  Stanley Tan and Robert Leong started their PhD programs in National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and University of New South Wales.

• 03/2017

  We have 2 paper presentations at PCSC 2017 including a Honorable Mention award for our work on analyzing congestion dynamics in mass rapid transit!

• 03/2017

  Gio and Briane will be attending the NTU Winter School for Complexity Science.

• 08/2016

  Congratulations to Boggs, Deanne, Via and Joyce for winning the Silver Medal for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis!! They developed a web-based agent-based model for the concourse area of an MRT3 station.

• 03/2016

  Stanley, Rafael and Briane are attending the NTU Winter School for Complexity Science to start building our research capabilities.