{"63802":{"#nid":"63802","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Brown Bag: Loren Terveen","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch5\u003EThe Design and Analysis of Open Content Communities\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\n                    \u003Cp\u003EThe internet has enabled a new class of \napplications where users -- rather than designers or owners or managers -\n produce much of the value of the application. Social filtering systems \n-- as pioneered by sites like MovieLens and popularized in sites like \nAmazon.com -- took one step on this path. While site owners are \nresponsible for entering the items of interest (movies, books, etc.), \nusers add value by entering ratings, tags, reviews, etc. Other systems \nlike wikis and open source software take user creation of content to a \nradical extreme: users produce all content. This idea might seem \nunlikely to work, but the success of systems like Wikipedia and Linux is\n proof to the contrary. I will report on several research projects that \nexplore key issues in communities where users create content:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; * Who creates the value in these communities? How is work\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; distributed across different types of users?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; * How can these communities get their members to work more\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; effectively, e.g, to do more tasks and do them better?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; * How can open content communities concept be extended with\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; geographic information to support local knowledge sharing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; systems?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMy collaborators and I have investigated these issues in Wikipedia,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nthe MovieLens film recommender community, and the Cyclopath geowiki\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nfor bicyclists.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n        \n        \n\n\n    \n            \n                      \n              \u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\n                    \u003Cp\u003ELoren Terveen is a Professor of Computer Science at the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUniversity of Minnesota.\u0026nbsp; His research interests include a variety of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ntopics in human-computer interaction and social computing. He helped\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ndevelop one of the early recommender web sites (PHOAKS) and recently\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nhas led projects that have: revealed new information about how\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nvaluable content is created on Wikipedia and the lifecycle of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWikipedia users, produced and deployed new interface designs to\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nenhance participation in online communities, developed a novel\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nlocation-aware messaging system, and combined wiki and geographical\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ninformation systems technologies to create social web sites that let\u003Cbr \/\u003E\npeople enter and access information about places in their local\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ncommunities.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProf. Terveen received his Ph.D. 1991 from the University of Texas at\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAustin, then spent 11 years at Bell Labs and AT\u0026amp;T Labs before joining\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nthe University of Minnesota.\u0026nbsp; He has served the human-computer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ninteraction community in various leadership roles, including as\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nco-chair of the CHI and IUI conferences, program chair of CSCW, and a\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nmember of the SIGCHI Executive Committee.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Design and Analysis of Open Content Communities"}],"uid":"27197","created_gmt":"2011-01-24 10:05:26","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:53:52","author":"Renata Le Dantec","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-02-10T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2011-02-10T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-02-10T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-02-10 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-02-10 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-02-10 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4096","name":"brown bag"},{"id":"1946","name":"GVU"},{"id":"5743","name":"GVU Brown Bag"},{"id":"8494","name":"HCI"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}