Creating, Destroying, and Restoring Value in Wikipedia ABSTRACT (2008)
Reid Priedhorsky, Jilin Chen, Katherine Panciera, Loren Terveen, John Riedl, ...
Wikipedia’s brilliance and curse is that any user can edit any of the encyclopedia entries. We introduce the notion of the impact of an edit, measured by the number of times the edited version is...
Contextual Prototyping: A Novel Privacy Study Approach (2008)
Loren Terveen, Changqing Zhou, Pamela Ludford
Emerging ubiquitous computing and location-aware applications have the potential to deliver novel and compelling functionality; however, they raise significant privacy concerns. Much prior work has...
Abstract: Technology innovators face the challenge of finding representative groups of users to participate in design activities. In some cases, software applications will target an audience of...
Steve Whittaker, Quentin Jones, Bonnie Nardi, Mike Creech, Loren Terveen, Ellen Isaacs, ...
Modern work is a highly social process, offering many cues for people to organize communication and access information. Shared physical workplaces provide natural support for tasks such as (a) social...
Brian Amento, Loren Terveen, Will Hill
For many topics, the World Wide Web contains hundreds or thousands of relevant documents of widely varying quality. Users face a daunting challenge in identifying a small subset of documents worthy...
Steve Whittaker, Quentin Jones, Bonnie Nardi, Mike Creech, Loren Terveen, Ellen Isaacs, ...
Modern work is a highly social process, offering many cues for people to organize communication and access information. Shared physical workplaces provide natural support for tasks such as (a) social...
Paul Resnick, Loren Terveen, Derek Hansen, John Riedl, Mark Ackerman
Online asynchronous communication is an important mechanism for sharing information, building relationships, and collaborating. Most asynchronous communication systems are dominated by a design theme
Discovering Personal Paths from Sparse GPS Traces (2008)
Changqing Zhou, Shashi Shekhar, Loren Terveen
Personal paths capture “personal meaningful places ” [13, 14] in temporal sequence. Knowledge of a user’s paths enables novel and useful features for location-aware applications, e.g., traffic...
Dissertation topic: Helping Hands: Design for Member-Maintained Online Communities. (2008)
Daniel R. Cosley, Loren Terveen
Studied how users ’ behavior and social networks in online communities affect community outcomes.
The boundaries of virtual communities (2008)
Quentin Jones, Loren Terveen, Steve Whittaker
This position paper is comprised of extracts from a research proposal we are currently putting together on the workshop topic. The grant is primarily about real and virtual places and community in...
ABSTRACT Using Frequency-of-mention in Public Conversations for Social Filtering (2008)
We report on an investigation of using Usenet newsgroups for social filtering of Web resources. Our main empirical results are: (1) for the period of May ’96 to Jul ’96, about 23 % of Usenet news...
[Models and Principles]: User/Machine Systems---Human factors (2008)
Dan Cosley, Pamela Ludford, Loren Terveen
Although the Internet provides powerful tools for social interactions, many tasks—for example, information-seeking—are undertaken as solitary activities. Information seekers are unaware of the...
Talk Amongst Yourselves: Inviting Users To Participate In Online Conversations (2008)
F. Maxwell Harper, Dan Frankowski, Sara Drenner, Yuqing Ren, Sara Kiesler, Loren Terveen, ...
Many small online communities would benefit from increased diversity or activity in their membership. Some communities run the risk of dying out due to lack of participation. Others struggle to...
Discovering personally meaningful places: An interactive clustering approach (2008)
Changqing Zhou, Dan Frankowski, Pamela Ludford, Shashi Shekhar, Loren Terveen
The discovery of a person’s meaningful places involves obtaining the physical locations and their labels for a person’s places that matter to his daily life and routines. This problem is driven...
How Do People's Concepts of Place Relate to (2008)
Physical Locations Changqing, Changqing Zhou, Pamela Ludford, Dan Frankowski, Loren Terveen
Advances in GPS and wireless networking technologies have enabled a new class of location-aware applications, including location tracking [10,2], location-enhanced messaging [3,9], location-based...
ATT Labs-Research Running head: Reference task agenda (2007)
Loren Terveen, Bonnie A. Nardi, Steve Whittaker, Steve Whittaker
Reference task agenda Let’s stop pushing the envelope and start addressing it: a reference task agenda for HCI
Brian Amento, Will Hill, Loren Terveen
Two hundred and fifty years ago the Japanese Zen master Hakuin asked the question, “What is the Sound of the Single Hand? ” This koan has long served as an aid to meditation but it also describes...
Steve Whittaker, Loren Terveen, Bonnie A. Nardi
Reference task agenda Let’s stop pushing the envelope and start addressing it: a
Reference task agenda 1 (2007)
Steve Whittaker, Loren Terveen, Bonnie A. Nardi
Running head: Reference task agenda We identify a problem with the process of research in the HCI community-- an overemphasis on "radical invention " at the price of achieving a...
Because I Carry My Cell Phone Anyway: Functional Location-Based Reminder Applications (2006)
Pamela J. Ludford, Dan Frankowski, Ken Reily, Kurt Wilms, Loren Terveen
Although they have potential, to date location-based information systems have not radically improved the way we interact with our surroundings. To study related issues, we developed a location-based...
Because I Carry My Cell Phone Anyway: Functional Location-Based Reminder Applications (2006)
Pamela J. Ludford, Dan Frankowski, Ken Reily, Kurt Wilms, Loren Terveen
Although they have potential, to date location-based information systems have not radically improved the way we interact with our surroundings. To study related issues, we developed a location-based...
Because I Carry My Cell Phone Anyway: Functional Location-Based Reminder Applications (2006)
Pamela J. Ludford, Dan Frankowski, Ken Reily, Kurt Wilms, Loren Terveen
Although they have potential, to date location-based information systems have not radically improved the way we interact with our surroundings. To study related issues, we developed a location-based...
Dan Cosley, Dan Frankowski, Loren Terveen, John Riedl
Many online communities are emerging that, like Wikipedia, bring people together to build community-maintained artifacts of lasting value (CALVs). Motivating people to contribute is a key problem...
Insert Movie Reference Here: A System to Bridge Conversation and Item-Oriented Web Sites (2006)
Sara Drenner, Max Harper, Dan Frankowski, John Riedl, Loren Terveen
Item-oriented Web sites maintain repositories of information about things such as books, games, or products. Many of these Web sites offer discussion forums. However, these forums are often...
You are what you say: Privacy risks of public mentions (2006)
Dan Frankowski, Dan Cosley, Shilad Sen, Loren Terveen, John Riedl
In today’s data-rich networked world, people express many aspects of their lives online. It is common to segregate different aspects in different places: you might write opinionated rants about...
How Oversight Improves Member-Maintained Communities (2005)
Dan Cosley, Dan Frankowski, Sara Kiesler, Loren Terveen, John Riedl
Online communities need regular maintenance activities such as moderation and data input, tasks that typically fall to community owners. Communities that allow all members to participate in...
Talking about Place: An Experiment in How People (2005)
Describe Places Changqing, Changqing Zhou, Pamela Ludford, Dan Frankowski, Loren Terveen
How people describe places is an important issue for the design of location-aware systems. We report here on an experiment that investigated the types of descriptions people naturally produce for...
An Experiment in Discovering Personally Meaningful Places from Location Data (2005)
Changqing Zhou, Pamela Ludford, Dan Frankowski, Loren Terveen
As mobile devices become location-aware, they offer the promise of powerful new applications. While computers work with physical locations like latitude and longitude, people think and speak in terms...
How Oversight Improves Member-Maintained Communities Dan Cosley (2005)
Dan Cosley, Dan Frankowski Sara, Sara Kiesler, Loren Terveen, John Riedl
Online communities need regular maintenance activities such as moderation and data input, tasks that typically fall to community owners. Communities that allow all members to participate in...
Talking about place: An experiment in how people describe places (2005)
Changqing Zhou, Pamela Ludford, Dan Frankowski, Loren Terveen
Abstract. How people describe places is an important issue for the design of location-aware systems. We report here on an experiment that investigated the types of descriptions people naturally...
Location-aware community applications: Privacy issues and user interfaces (2004)
Loren Terveen, Rahul Akolkar, Pamela Ludford, Changqing Zhou, John Murphy, Joe Konstan, ...
We are embarked on a research program whose overall goal is to create and study mobile, location-aware applications that let people leverage existing face-to-face relationships in new ways. We have...
Quentin Jones, Sukeshini A. Gr, Steve Whittaker, Keerti Chivakula, Loren Terveen
We present a conceptual framework for location-aware community systems and results from two studies of how sociallydefined places influence people’s information sharing and communication needs. The...
Discovering Personal Gazetteers: An Interactive Clustering Approach (2004)
Changqing Zhou, Dan Frankowski, Pamela Ludford, Shashi Shekhar, Loren Terveen
Personal gazetteers record individuals' most important places, such as home, work, grocery store, etc. Using personal gazetteers in location-aware applications o#ers additional functionality and...
Pamela J. Ludford, Dan Cosley, Dan Frankowski, Loren Terveen
Online communities can help people form productive relationships. Unfortunately, this potential is not always fulfilled: many communities fail, and designers don’t have a solid understanding of...
Using social psychology to motivate contributions to online communities (2004)
Kimberly Ling, Gerard Beenen, Pamela J. Ludford, Xiaoqing Wang, Klarissa Chang, Xin Li, ...
Pamela J. Ludford, Dan Cosley, Dan Frankowski, Loren Terveen
Online communities can help people form productive relationships. Unfortunately, this potential is not always fulfilled: many communities fail, and designers don’t have a solid understanding of...
Loren Terveen, Steve Whittaker, Quentin Jones, Quentin Jones, Sukeshini A. Gr, Sukeshini A. Gr, ...
In this paper we examine an emerging class of systems that link People-to-People-to-Geographical-Places; we call these P3-Systems. Through analyzing the literature, we have identified four major...
Experiments in Social Data Mining: The TopicShop System (2003)
Brian Amento Loren, Loren Terveen, Will Hill, Deborah Hix, Robert Schulman
This paper revises and expands material originally presented in references 4 and 5
Steve Whittaker, Quentin Jones, Loren Terveen
Contact management is an important part of everyday work. People exchange business cards to try to enter each other’s contact lists. Local businesses provide refrigerator magnets and calendars so...
Steve Whittaker, Quentin Jones, Loren Terveen
Contact management is an important part of everyday work. People exchange business cards to try to enter each other’s contact lists. Local businesses provide refrigerator magnets and calendars so...
Specifying Preferences Based on User History (2002)
Loren Terveen, Jessica Mcmackin, Brian Amento, Will Hill
Many applications require users to specify preferences. We support users in this task by letting them define preferences relative to their personal history or that of other users. We implement this...
ContactMap: Using Personal Social Networks to Organize Communication in a Social Desktop (2002)
Steve Whittaker, Quentin Jones, Bonnie Nardi, Mike Creech, Loren Terveen, Ellen Isaacs, ...
A shared physical workplace is a rich social and informational environment. Tasks such as managing communication commitments, keeping track of collaborators and friends, and “social data mining ”...
User Interfaces for Topic Management of Web Sites (2001)
Deborah Hix Chair, Roger Ehrich, Rex Hartson, Robert Schulman, Loren Terveen, Brian Amento, ...
(ABSTRACT) Topic management is the task of gathering, evaluating, organizing, and sharing a set of web sites for a specific topic. Current web tools do not provide adequate support for this task. We...
Beyond Recommender Systems: Helping People Help Each Other (2001)
The Internet and World Wide Web have brought us into a world of endless possibilities: interactive Web sites to experience, music to listen to, conversations to participate in, and every conceivable...
Beyond Recommender Systems: Helping People Help Each Other (2001)
The Internet and World Wide Web have brought us into a world of endless possibilities: interactive Web sites to experience, music to listen to, conversations to participate in, and every conceivable...
TopicShop: Enhanced Support for Evaluating and Organizing Collections of Web Sites (2000)
Brian Amento, Loren Terveen, Deborah Hix
TopicShop is an interface that helps users evaluate and organize collections of web sites. The main interface components are site profiles, which contain information that helps users select...
Does "authority" mean quality? predicting expert quality ratings of web documents (2000)
Brian Amento, Loren Terveen, Will Hill
structure For many topics, the World Wide Web contains hundreds or thousands of relevant documents of widely varying quality. Users face a daunting challenge in identifying a small subset of...
An Empirical Evaluation of User Interfaces for Topic Management of Web Sites (1999)
Brian Amento, Will Hill, Loren Terveen, Deborah Hix, Peter Ju
Topic management is the task of gathering, evaluating, organizing, and sharing a set of web sites for a specific topic. Current web tools do not provide adequate support for this task. We created the...
Constructing, Organizing, and Visualizing Collections of Topically Related Web Resources (1999)
Loren Terveen, Will Hill, Brian Amento
For many purposes, the Web page is too small a unit of interaction and analysis. Web sites are structured multimedia documents consisting of many pages, and users often are interested in obtaining...
Constructing, Organizing, and Visualizing Collections of Topically Related Web Resources (1999)
Loren Terveen, Will Hill, Brian Amento
For many purposes, the Web page is too small a unit of interaction and analysis. Web sites are structured multimedia documents consisting of many pages, and users often are interested in obtaining...
Constructing, Organizing, and Visualizing Collections of Topically Related Web Resources (1999)
Loren Terveen, Will Hill Att, Will Hill, Brian Amento
this article. Before we describe this work, we analyze other systems for finding and exploring Web information, first discussing widely used Web tools, then research prototypes and techniques. We...
Evaluating emergent collaboration on the Web (1998)
Links between web sites can be seen as evidence of a type of emergent collaboration among web site authors. We report here on an empirical investigation into emergent collaboration. We developed a...
The Dynamics of Mass Interaction (1998)
Steve Whittaker, Loren Terveen, Will Hill, Lynn Cherny
Usenet may be regarded as the world's largest conversational application, with over 17,000 newsgroups and 3 million users. Despite its ubiquity and popularity, however, we know little about the...
The dynamics of mass interaction (1998)
Loren Terveen, W Hti, Lynn Cherny
Usenet may be regarded as the worl$s largest conversatioti appficatioq with over 17,000 newsgronps and 3 fion users. Despite its ubiquity and poptiari~, however, we know Etie about the natore of the...
PHOAKS: a system for sharing recommendations (1997)
Loren Terveen, Will Hill, Brian Amento, David Mcdonald, Josh Creter
PHOAKS (People Helping One Another Know Stuff) is an experimental system designed to help users locate information on the World Wide Web. Using a collaborative filtering approach, it sifts through...
PHOAKS: A System for Sharing Recommendations. (0000)
People Helping One Another Know Stuff (PHOAKS) is an experimental system that addresses this problem through a collaborative filtering approach. PHOAKS works by automatically recognizing, tallying,...
PHOAKS: A System for Sharing Recommendations.
People Helping One Another Know Stuff (PHOAKS) is an experimental system that addresses this problem through a collaborative filtering approach. PHOAKS works by automatically recognizing, tallying,...