The SocialWorlds Group
Mark Ackerman is a professor in the School of Information and in the Division of Computer Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering. Mark is a member of the CHI Academy (HCI fellow).
Current projects:
- Infrastructures for collaborative systems
- Analyses of online worlds and social computing
- Memory artifacts
- Reuse of information, especially in chronic diseases
Jiang Yang is a post-doc working on inter-cultural effects in online communities, especially in question-answering. She received her PhD student from the School of Information. She is interested in interaction in large-scale social-tech systems such as Q&A forums, Wikipedia, and Facebook. Jiang has a BS degree in Information System & Management and a MS in Financial Engineering from the University of Science & Technology of China. Jiang is co-advised by Lada Adamic.
Current projects:
- Examining what keeps people online at three large Q&A communities
- Using social computational methods to understand the complexity in people's social interactions and co-evolution in the systems
- Thesis - Incentive and Culture: Shaping Information and Social Dynamics in Online Information Sharing Systems (2011)
Ayşe Büyüktür is a PhD student in the School of Information. Ayşe is interested in human-computer interaction, socio-technical systems, and large-scale cyberinfrastructures for science. She received a Master of Public Health in 2003 and Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2006, both from the University of Michigan.
Current projects:
- Comparative study of large-scale scientific cyberinfrastructures
Tao Dong is a PhD student in the School of Information. Tao is interested in Human-Computer Interaction, Social Computing, and Computer-supported Cooperative Work. He received a BS in Management Information Systems from Fudan University, China, and a Master of Science in Information from the University of Michigan. Tao is co-advised by Mark Newman.
Current projects:
- Context-adaptive Privacy Configuration for Location-based Social Applications
Previous projects:
- iConnect: An Expertise Profiling and Finding System for Organizations
There is a missing bio for Elizabeth (Liz) Kaziunas.
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Alumni
Jina Huh graduated with a Ph.D. from the School of Information and is currently a post-doctoral fellow in Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington. She also received a MHCI from HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, and a BA in Multimedia design from the Korean National University of Arts.
Thesis:
- Collaborative Help for Individualized Problems: Learning from the MythTV User Community and Diabetes Support Groups (2011)
Kevin Nam graduated with a PhD from the School of Information and is currently at MIT/Lincoln Labs. He is interested in human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. Kevin also has an MS in computer science from the University of Michigan and a BS in computer science from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Thesis:
- Arkose: A Prototype Mechanism and Tool for Collaborative Information Generation and Distillation (2010)
Xiaomu Zhou is a faculty member at Rutgers in the School of Communication and Information. Her dissertation research examined informal information use in a hospital setting, with a focus on patient psychosocial information.
Xiaomu has a BS in computer science and technology, Shandong University, and a MS in computer science and application, Beijing Institute of Technology.
Thesis:
- Information in Healthcare: An Ethnographic Analysis of a Hospital Ward (2010)
Jun Zhang graduated with a PhD from the School of Information. He is interested in expertise sharing, social networks, and CSCW. He currently works for Pitney-Bowes Research in Connecticut. Jun also has a BS in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University.
Thesis:
- Understanding and Augmenting Expertise Networks (2008)
Ben Congleton is on leave from being a PhD student in the School of Information. He co-founded Olark.com. He is interested in ubiquitous computing, CSCW, HCI, and the design of interactive systems. He has a BS in business information technology and a BS and MS in computer science from Virginia Tech.
Projects:
- Prospero, a toolkit for Audience Aware Public Displays.
- SSAPP, a simple sensor architecture for simulating and prototyping privacy aware pervasive environments.
Previous alumni include: Dave McDonald, Wayne Lutters, Jack Muramatsu, Stephen Cotterill, Anne Swenson, Brian Starr, Andy Tipple, Winnie Hui, and Jeff Dorsz.