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I was just awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship!

ICA 2009

I encourage you to check out my labmates’ presentations at ICA. I promise they will be really interesting.  Lauren’s is about trust-building in text-based CMC, and Brian’s is about the “newsroom” dynamics among Wikipedia editors.

Lauren Scissors – “You Can Trust Me,” “I Can Trust You”: Linguistic Accommodation and Trust in Text-Based CMC

Session:Language of Online Interaction

Time: Friday, 1:30pm-2:45pm

Location: Chicago Marriott / Chicago Ballroom B

Brian Keegan – A Crowded Newsroom: Social Capital and Deliberative Decision-Making on Wikipedia

Session:Listening for the Wisdom of Crowds: New Media and New Forms of Knowledge

Time: Sunday, 4:30pm-5:45pm

Location: Chicago Marriott / Chicago Ballroom B

In no particular order, I also strongly recommend these papers, sessions, panels, and workshops by students and faculty in the MTS program here at Northwestern:

• Will You Be My Friend? An Exploration of Adolescent Friendship Formation Online in Teen Second Life
• Focused on the Prize: Characteristics of Experts in Virtual Worlds
• In Your Face-book Cues
• Knowledge Management Technology, Information Visibility, and the Social Construction of Expertise
• Between Tradition and Change: A Review of Recent Research on Online News Production
• Work and Life: The Role of Networks in the Emergency Response Organizations
• The Duality of Media: How Public Measures Shape Public Attention
• Trust on the Web: How Young Adults Judge the Credibility of Online Content (TOP 2 Faculty Paper)
• Fragmented Globalization, Contested Realities: American and Indian Newspaper Coverage of the Outsourcing Issue
• Milblogs as a Networked Public Sphere: The Case of Haditha
• Simulation and Citizen Participation: Learning From the Past
• Print Culture in a Digital World: Technology’s Impact on the Practice of Book Collection
• Repertoires of Media Use Across Platforms: An Integrated Approach to Understanding Patterns of Audience Duplication Through Network Analysis
• The Power Shift and Rhetorical Battle: The Noblesse Oblige Discourse in the South Korean Press During 1995-2006
• The Impact of Content Preferences on Political Knowledge and Voter Turnout: The Differential Effects of News and Entertainment
• As Real as Real? Macroeconomic Behavior in a Large-Scale Virtual World
• A Typology of Social Network Site Users
• Schmoozing and Smiting: Trust, Social Institutions and Communication Patterns in an MMOG
• Teens and Communication Technology: The Coconstruction of Privacy and Friendship in Mediated Communication
• Representation of War and the Cultural Foundations of Media Framing
• Striving for NPOV: Reconciling Knowledge Claims in Wikipedia
• Focused on the Prize: Characteristics of Experts in Virtual Worlds
• Understanding the Structures, Antecedents, and Outcomes of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Transfer: A Multitheoretical and Multilevel Network Analysis
• Work and Life: The Role of Networks in the Emergency Response Organizations

Back from CHI

I got back from my first CHI yesterday.  I saw more interesting talks, posters, and tech demos than I could possibly recount.

That said, a few stand out in my memory (in no particular order).  Yamashita et al’s paper on machine translation and grounding was theoretically very interesting and also offered perspective on how translation technologies might be used (or misused).  ITU Gaze Group’s low-cost, open source eye tracking could really expand the practical, everyday application of gaze as an input modality.   Jeremy Birnholtz presented a paper (written with Jeff Hancock and colleagues) about “butler lies,” the deceptive strategies people use to manage their computer-mediated social interactions, which served to highlight the importance of ambiguity in the development of CMC technologies and applications.

And of course, Lauren and Patti’s talks were quite good too!

Student volunteering at CHI 2009

I’ll be student volunteering at CHI 2009!  This is my first time at CHI and I am looking forward to taking it all in.  Make sure to catch the talks by Collaborative Technology Laboratory labmates!

Lauren Scissors, In CMC We Trust: The Role of Similarity (w/ Alastair Gill, Kathleen Geraghty, Darren Gergle)

Session: Computer Mediated Communication 1

Tuesday 4/7 @ 9:00am

Patti Bao, What’s “This” You Say? The Use of Local References on Distant Displays (w/ Darren Gergle)

Session: Large Displays/Multi-Display Environments

Tuesday 4/7 @ 2:30pm