Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Location: P-111 (Dean’s Conference Room), Palace Road Building, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA
Registration: Free and open to all! Click here to register.
Ever participated in social tagging, wikis, hackathons, or even just a group project? Or have you conducted research using focus groups or a Delphi method? “Crowdsourcing” and “collaboration” are important concepts in research and ideation (idea generation).
Join Simmons ASIS&T and the GSLIS Doctoral Program for a presentation about Group Ideation and Deliberation Activities. Dr. Lu Xiao will discuss four projects (completed and ongoing) about understanding and supporting group ideation and deliberation activities.
- The first project looks at the effects of knowing other members’ rationales in small group ideation activities.
- The second project examines the effects of knowing previous workers’ rationales in ideation activities through online crowdsourcing (Amazon’s Mechanical Turk).
- The third project focuses on understanding and supporting small group deliberation.
- The fourth project studies large-scale online deliberation (Wikipedia’s Articles for Deletion discussions) and explore a computational linguistic approach to facilitate deliberation processes and improve deliberation outcome.
Light refreshments will be served.
Dr. Lu Xiao is an assistant professor at the University of West Ontario in London, Ontario. Her research group is the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Lab at the Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS). Her research focuses on the design and evaluation of information technologies that support collaboration and learning.
Questions or comments? Please contact [email protected].