BYU CS Colloquium Presentation

Technology-Mediated Social ParticipationBYU CS Colloquium

March 14, 2012

Derek L. HansenInformation Technology, BYU

[email protected]@shakmatt

Center for the Advanced Study of Communities and Information

Human-Computer Interaction Lab

A World of Social Technologies

Technology-mediated social participation (TMSP)

“The goal is to create new architectures for the online public spaces that energize the population to contribute to vital community and national priorities” - IEEE Computer, Nov. 2010

TMSP Examples

Building the Kingdom via TMSP

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Socio-Technical Systems

Cognitive-Technical System Social-Technical System

How a Cockpit Remembers its SpeedHutchins, Edwin

Research on TMSP

• Goals: (1) Improve the world! (2) Develop generalizable knowledge in the process

• Research opportunities:–Develop New Theories of TMSP–Design Novel Technologies & methods to support & analyze TMSP systems

Research Opportunities & Strategies

• Develop tools & methods to study TMSP

• Examine extraordinary socio-technical systems from other domains & translate them to TMSP contexts

• Develop & test novel socio-technical interventions in field studies

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additional resources

Making sense of social dataPatterns are left behind New Tools to explore relational data

New Methods & Visualizations for Exploring social experience

Examine Extraordinary Socio-Technical Systems TMSP Systems

Develop & Test novel TMSP Interventions

Places to Publish

• ACM – CHI• ACM – CSCW (and GROUP)• ICWSM• Domain-Specific Journals• IEEE - Social Computing

Questions & Discussion

Derek L. HansenInformation Technology, BYU

[email protected]@shakmatt