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UMN - Social Computing Collaborative
- 1. Welcome to our Meet ‘N’ Greet! Social Computing #umnsocomp
- 2. Agenda 4:00 : Welcome, Background, Goals, Upcoming Activities 4:15: Getting to know one another; 1-min slide presentation 5:00: Next Steps, Online Connections, Program Ideas 5:15: Networking
- 3. Background High interest in social computing research across campus, spread across many disciplines. Several small existing collaborations, but no cohesive group; no comprehensive list of courses for students. Support from the Graduate School/Provost’s office. Started with a series of meetings among those we could find who expressed interest; now ready to grow!
- 4. Goals of this group Community-Building & Interdisciplinary Collaboration Organize a regular seminar series on social computing topics across disciplines Develop a common directory of relevant courses Explore the idea of a graduate minor Explore student funding (e.g., NSF IGERT)
- 5. Upcoming Activities Meeting the last Thursday of each month About half of these will be outside speakers Ben Shneiderman (U. of Maryland) on 2/24 Amy Bruckman (Georgia Tech) early next year Others Outside speakers will have 1-2 days of activity Lunch with graduate students Meetings with faculty and research groups The other meetings will be internal Internal speakers Other activities
- 6. Upcoming Activities (cont’d) Use e-mail list, website, etc. to promote other activities of interest E.g., talk by Gloria Mark on March 7 Small committees to work on other goals Course directory Graduate minor Funding
- 9. Nora Paul Minnesota Journalism Center [email_address] Social Computing related to news and information “ If the news is important, it will find me” Information Foraging Impact of social networks on the practice of journalism and strategic communication “ Gamification” of the News
- 10. User-interface design Using technology to help people create strong social ties Geographically-based communities Twitter: @lorenterveen Web: http://bit.ly/feDjf8 Find better bike routes! Visit http://www.cyclopath.org
- 11. B. R. Simon Rosser, PhD, MPH, LP Professor & Director: HIPS Program Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health The HIPS Program comprises about 8 multidisciplinary faculty and 25 staff working on NIH-funded studies such as: Internet-based HIV prevention interventions for high-risk populations (e.g., safer sex persuasive computing programs) Cyberpornography Mobile-Internet based programs to enhance HIV medication compliance Effects of virtual technology on the gay community
- 12. Predict time trends of opinion/behavior: Score media text by computer Enter scores of text/other information into ideodynamic model Predict time trend Elections, HIV infection, diffusion of innovations, etc. (R 2 0.75) Theory applicable to infinite populations and to social networks InfAlign graphical map of numerical data Thousands of data points on the same screen Heat map replacement (is interactive not static) Linked to geographical/other map types on same screen Useful for visualizing text, surveys, resumes, shopping Quantum mechanical perspective on social analyses Electrons around nuclei are clouds (distributions) not points Properties of people are also probabilistic and distributional Text sender: “I misspoke” Text reader: “I missed that” Assess distributions of scores to assess needed accuracy Test sensitivity of predictions to variations in text scoring
- 13. Network Social Capital in Organizational Teams David Knoke Department of Sociology Network Social Capital Resources accessed by ego actors through relations with alters that facilitate attaining group goals Multi-professional Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams in Minnesota deliver mental health services in local communities. All members of 27 ACT teams were surveyed at six-month intervals for one year. Social capital data: Network ties within each team & likelihood of expert help with work. Hypotheses: Greater member & team social capital results in: improved work relations within a team higher member morale, job satisfaction; less stress, burnout greater team effectiveness & efficiency in performance “ better” client outcomes (fewer mental symptoms, behaviors)
- 14. John Logie Professor, Writing Studies Textual Invention & Textual Ownership in Textual Spaces Question-and-Answer Sites Peers, Pirates and Persuasion: The Rhetoric of Peer-to-Peer Debates”
- 15. Online Volunteer Communities Recommender Systems Current Projects: World of Warcraft Wikipedia Tagging Professor , Computer Science GroupLens Laboratory http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~riedl/
- 16. Mark Snyder Professor, Psychology Director of the Center for the Study of the Individual and Society. Research Interests: Motivational Foundations of Individual and Collective Social Action Social/Psychological Aspects of Volunteerism
- 17. J. Michael Oakes Associate Professor in the Division of Epidemiology & Community Health; Adjunct Professor of Sociology Research Interests: Quantitative Methods Social Epidemiology Research Ethics
- 18. Yuqing (Ching) Ren Assistant Professor Carlson School of Management Research focus on online community design, collaboration technology, social networks, computer modeling of social and organizational systems
- 20. Aaron Halfaker Studying human-computer-human interaction in Wikipedia Data Mining How is quality controlled by the masses? What effect do content disputes have? Who contributes high quality content? How much of a problem is vandalism? Interface Design Can socialization help newcomer retention? Can task identification help productivity? What effect will social translucence have? What effect will computed feedback have? [email_address]
- 21. Basic info Name: Abedelaziz (Aziz) Mohaisen. Role: 2 nd year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota (advised the amazing Yongdae Kim and Nick Hopper!) Social networks-related research interests Social networks measurements and analysis Exploiting social networks for trustworthy computing Design of privacy-preserving and secure social networks Relevant publications (all credit to nice collaborators!) Measuring the mixing time of social graphs (with Yun and Kim, ACM IMC’10) Mistaking foes for friends: analyzing social network-based Sybil defenses in mobile networks (with Kang, Nyang, and Kim, ACM ICUIMC’11) New infiltration attacks on online social networks and their implications (with Heorhiadi, Lin, Hopper, and Kim, work in progress). Accounting for trust in social network-based Sybil defenses (with Hopper and Kim, in ACM CCS’10 and IEEE INFOCOM’11 ) Securing encounter-based social networks: requirements, challenges, and designs (with Vasserman, Foo Kune, and Kim, in ACM CCS’10, IEEE ICDCS’11) SocialCloud: exploiting social networks for building distributed computing services (with Chandra and Kim). More details at my homepage: http://www.cs.umn.edu/~mohaisen
- 22. Adam Tobias Schrag visual cultures of war | theories of still and moving images | media history and ecology | 20 th - and 21 st -century American literatures | war literatures | service learning | digital humanities Dissertation Surface to Surface: War, Image & the Senses in the Screenic Era Research & Teaching Interests An investigation of the entanglement of war and media technologies from the early television era to the digital present. PhD Candidate, Department of English
- 23. Adeel Ahmed UMN Extension Center for Community Vitality Is community vitality enough as an incentive for volunteers. Interactive maps and their implications for community building . Interactive maps and their affect on destination image. Does having a “places” page influence physical visits to an establishment? Does hands on education increase participation and the level of engagement in social websites?
- 24. Alicia Dsouza
- 25. Amy Hribar Science Librarian @ Magrath Library PhD, Cultural Kinesiology MA student in Learning Technologies Interests: mobile and online learning Current education-related projects: An iPhone app that provides situation-specific health information; A mobile data collection app for K-6 students.
- 28. Austin Stair Calhoun – Ph.D. student in Kinesiology
- 29. Ben Nesvig
- 31. Brian N. Larson, Recovering Lawyer & PhD student in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication; Instructor: WRIT 3562 Technical & Professional Communication Research Agenda Mixed methods study Survey of researchers to assess Awareness of contractual limitations on Internet ‘site’ research and Impact on research Legal and critical analysis Conceptual project Theorizing at juncture of Group work Online pedagogy Writing pedagogy Conceptual framework still up in the air *Bonus interest: Automated analysis of content Identifying characteristics both Rhetorical and Linguistic
- 34. Christine Haas
- 35. Cory Devor
- 36. Cristina Lopez
- 37. Dan Keefe
- 38. Division of Epidemiology: Joined the HIPS team to pursue his dual academic interests in homosexuality and technology. Prior to his work here, Daniel was an entrepreneur in new-media and communication technology ventures. Interested in trending technology to identify intersections between new media, culture, sexuality, sexual identity, politics, and infectious disease. Daniel Holsinger
- 39. David Schroeder
- 40. [email_address] twitter: @dawn_armfield Researching ethos & presence through anonymous identity in PostSecret.com dawn m. armfield phd student in Writing Studies
- 41. Improving Heart Failure Care in the VA Through the HF Network Doug Wholey Health Policy & Management, School of Public health Improving HF Health Care Through Collaboration VA Heart Failure Provider Network A network of VA providers interested in improving heart failure care throughout the VA healthcare system. Currently, more than 530 providers (chiefs of cardiology, chiefs of medicine, chiefs of staff, clinicians, researchers, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, facility and VISN leadership, and others) from 150 facilities participate in this network. Questions: How is the HF network organized? What is the impact of the HF networks activities on patient care? Does this impact vary by activity, degree of participation and location in the network? Activities Share experiences with HF care programs Exchange HF tools Collaborate on registries and improvement Support collaborative research on HF care http://www.queri.research.va.gov/chf/products/provider_network.cfm
- 42. Elizabeth Lijewski Undergraduate in SJMC Strategic communications public relations Working on Honors thesis Summa cum laude original research Case studies, interviews, surveys Topic: social media and higher education Do colleges and universities’ social media objectives and output match what students desire from their universities via social media channels and sources? Work at the Minnesota Medical Foundation (web development) and Gopher Athletics (comm. intern) Interested in mass communication, social computing, advertising, public relations, sales, marketing, design, research and development, feature writing
- 43. Gail Whitney
- 44. DISASTERS: Trainings, Simulations, Games, Alerts for First Responders ZOONOTIC OUTBREAKS: Response Systems for Pathologists in Resource-Poor Settings Hale Thompson Center for Public Health Outreach & Education
- 47. Joanna O’Connell, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese Studies Uses of writing/literacy technologies in global/colonial languages across time; Differences in uses of social media in Spanish, Portuguese, French, English; Identity formation, remediation, power and change in the Americas.
- 48. Joel D. Donna Learning Technologies Research and Development Use of online learning communities to provide support for beginning science teachers Design based research Prior work on the affordances and barriers (http://bit.ly/projectTIN) Transforming beginning science educator lesson planning through an educative, cyber-enhanced instructional design environment
- 49. User Lifecycles in Online Communities Katie Panciera GroupLens Research
- 50. Education: B.S. Environmental Science Graduate student, Humphrey School of Public Affairs M.S. Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy Experience: Graduate Research Assistant, Institute on the Environment Dialogue Earth program Blogger, ScienceBuzz.org (Science Museum of Minnesota) Environmental News Traditional Media Social Media Interest : Promoting public engagement through science communication and education. Research Question : How can we improve scientists’ ability to engage the public?
- 52. Kevin Peterson
- 53. Komal Kapoor
- 54. Kristen Mastel
- 55. Layne Johnson
- 56. Melissa Thompson
- 57. Michael Ekstrand Computer Science - GroupLens Research ekstrand@cs.umn.edu / @elehack Current work: Recommending items in graph-structured domains (e.g. citation web, social networks) Paper: Automatically Building Research Reading Lists (Ekstrand et al., 2010, in RecSys) Social computing interest: Help users get more value from their network through recommendation, intelligent filtering, and interfaces.
- 58. Michael Hancher Professor of English, U of M President, Dictionary Society of North America “ Littera scripta manet : Blackstone and Electronic Text.” Studies in Bibliography 54 (2001). “ Definition and Depiction.” Word and Image 26 (2010). “ The Library of Google: Researching Scanned Books.” MLA 2008 SF. “ The Dictionary in Print and in the Cloud.” MLA 2011 LA. “ Learning from Librivox.” Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies. Routledge, 2011.
- 59. Mikhil Masli Cyclopath Collaboratively Edited Map Specialization How contributors specialize in particular types of work, and topics (locations), and what it means to designers. Eliciting Work How to elicit contributory behaviour using theories drawn from social psychology and knowledge of how people function. GroupLens Research Department of Computer Science and Engineering, U of M
- 60. Morten Warncke-Wang Graduate Research Assistant, GroupLens Main research interests: Wikipedia SuggestBot – recommends articles to edit on English and Norwegian Wikipedia Simulations of online social networks, particularly Twitter
- 61. Pengkui Luo
- 62. Rick Huebsch
- 63. Seth Lewis Who : assistant professor of new media journalism RQ : how do professions innovate by opening up their boundaries to other fields/actors? (with a focus on the context of journalism in transformation) Projects : Intersection of journalists and computer programmers Journalists’ use of Twitter; other aspects of social media More : @sethclewis on Twitter; and sethlewis.org
- 64. Shayla Thiel-Stern, Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication: Social Media, Gender and Identity My research is usually (but not always) youth studies and often (but not always) falls under two categories: 1) How adolescent girls use interactive and social media to negotiate gender and identity; and 2) How the mass media portrays adolescent girls using interactive and social media (often relates to cyber-panic and sexism)
- 65. Current research, teaching and outreach “investments” in social computing Susan Walker
- 66. Hi. Hi there, folks. I’m Timothy Oleksiak and I am a second-year Writing Studies doctoral student. I am very much looking forward to being a part of this group. I research theories of technological resistance particularly related to first-year writing. I make sense of these issues through theories of political economy with an emphasis on the critiques of neoliberalism.
- 67. Dialogue Earth Social Media Sentiment Analysis Challenge: Accurate,Timely, Cost Effective Data Subject Matter Experts Crowd-sourced Coders Algorithms Tom Masterman
- 68. Trudy Dunham
- 69. Social Computing Vinod Krishnan Social Computing excites me Current project/Research agenda? Most companies canNOT differentiate UI and UX UX is still not in their cards yet If you took Csci 5115, good for you! Choosing appropriate methods Constraints kill creativity, but managing UX ‘well’ pays your mortage.
- 70. Network Evolution Macro-Level Evolutionary Dynamics: How does a network’s global structure change over time? Structure of the whole network E.g., density, connectivity, distance, structural cohesion Micro-Level Evolutionary Dynamics: What local rules govern network participants’ choices of when and with whom to form or dissolve ties? Based on local network configurations - E.g., dyads or triads Local processes, decisions, actions Xi Zhu, Department of Sociology Questions: How do networks evolve over time? How do evolutionary dynamics operating at different levels relate to each other? Empirical cases: Interorganizational alliance networks, friendship networks, collaboration networks, etc.
- 71. Yanhua Li
- 72. Yongdae Kim
- 73. Yoshikazu Suzuki 2 nd year M.A. student at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication Current project: M.A. thesis; motivations to contribute to commons-based peer production (online user collaboration) Research agenda: social scientific exploration of the motivation of user participation
- 74. Next Steps & Program Ideas
Editor's Notes
- #23: Angela Brandt at gladmin@cs.umn.edu
- #51: Hello, I’m Kelsi Dayle Anderson and I’m a Master’s candidate at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs in Science, Technology, and Environmental policy. My interest lies in promoting public engagement, specifically towards environmental policy, through science communication and education. At the Institute on the Environment’s Dialogue Earth program, I am developing a methodology to identify the characteristics of *this* subset of news stories with the goal of then using those findings to guide scientists’ engagement with the public. “This* subset of news stories is particularly interesting because they “make it” in both the traditional and emerging media, thereby reaching the largest audience. This research will form the basis of my thesis, which I’m beginning this semester and plan to defend in next December.
- #66: I want to let you know that the majority of the research that I’m going to be citing is not my own . I’m sharing the work of others who have been studying technology use, learning and social media – and it’s a huge field – and some who have looked at parents. In my own lab we have ongoing research and planned research on 1) how and which parents use which technology for parenting, a baseline survey , 2) we’re evaluating existing online sites for parents – MN Parents Know, JITP, 3) we’re going to be creating social networking, geomapping technology for parents related to locating and sharing information about activities for young children, and 4) we’re looking at professional parents educators’ integration of technology . From use to product to evaluation to integration in practice. Perhaps if I run into you in a year I’ll have some of our results to share. You may have noticed the survey on your table . This is part of a study – looking at community-based educators’ attitudes about technology If you would fill it out during the talk, I’d appreciate it. There’s an information sheet on the table that tells more about the study. It’s optional of course, but I’d love your voice and experience to be considered in the research. Thanks very much.
- #71: * 07/16/96 * ##