cs591kgk: social computing seminar

This seminar serves as a reading group dealing with topics germane to research in Social Computation. The seminar is designed to be casual and informal, and is intended as a forum for the discussion of social computation issues.


We meet every Wednesday between 4:30 and 5:30pm upstairs at Qdoba on Green St.

Spring 2008 Schedule:
01.28.2009		Can You Ever Trust A Wiki? by Kittur, Suh, and Chi. CSCW 2008.
02.04.2009		The Intellectual Challenge of CSCW: The Gap Between Social Requirements and Technical Feasibility by Mark Ackerman. Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.
02.11.2009		Rejection in a Gay Chat Room by Rodney H. Jones. HICSS 2009.
02.18.2009		Matchin: Eliciting User Preferences with an Online Game by Hacker and von Ahn. CHI 2009.
02.25.2009		Blogging at work and the corporate attention economy by Yardi, Golder and Brzozowski. CHI 2009.
03.04.2009		Brainstorming Groups in Context: Effectiveness in a Product Design Firm by Sutton and Hargadon. Administrative Science Quarterly, 1996.
03.11.2009		Does computer-generated speech manifest personality? an experimental test of similarity-attraction by Nass and Lee. CHI 2000.
04.15.2009		Social Immersive Media: Pursuing Best Practices for Multi-user Interactive Camera/Projector Exhibits by Snibbe and Raffle. CHI 2009.
04.22.2009		Computational Social Science by Lazer, Pentland, Adamic, et al. Science 323(5915).
04.29.2009		In support of city exploration by Bedwell, et al. CHI 2009.
05.06.2009		Computers and iphones and mobile phones, oh my! by Kamvar, Kellar, et al. WWW 2009.

Suggest papers to Eric or Tony. Send website complaints to Ankur.