Week |
Date |
Topic |
Reading (response indicates a reading response is required for the material.) |
Due |
1 |
9/1 |
Introduction & Course Overview
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1 |
9/3 |
Social Computing Overview
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(1) Jonathan Grudin. "Why CSCW applications fail: problems in the design and evaluation of organizational interfaces." CSCW 1988.
(2) Mark Ackerman. "The Intellectual Challenge of CSCW: The Gap Between Social Requirements and Technical Feasibility". Human-computer interaction 15.2 (2000): 179-203.
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2 |
9/8 |
Communication Tools
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(1) response Jim Hollan & Scott Stornetta. "Beyond Being There." CHI 1992.
(2) Gina Venolia, John C. Tang, & Kori Inkpen. "SeeSaw: I See You Saw My Video Message." MobileHCI 2015.
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RR by all |
2 |
9/10 |
Collaboration Tools
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(1) response Aniket Kittur & Robert Kraut. "Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia: quality through coordination." CSCW 2008.
(2) Rajan Vaish et al. "Crowd Research: Open and Scalable University Laboratories." UIST 2017.
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RR by A
Assignment 1: Social Computing HOFS
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3 |
9/15 |
Peer Production
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(1) response Michael Nielsen. "Open Science Now!" TEDxWaterloo video, 2011 (16 mins). + Tim Gowers, "Is massively collaborative mathematics possible?" 2009.
(2) Yochai Benkler and Helen Nissenbaum. "Commons‐based peer production and virtue." Journal of political philosophy 14.4 (2006): 394-419. (read pages 394-409)
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RR by B |
3 |
9/17 |
Discussion and Q&A
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(1) response Lena Mamykina et al. "Design Lessons from the Fastest Q&A Site in the West." CHI 2011.
(2) Amy Zhang et al. "Wikum: Bridging Discussion Forums and Wikis Using Recursive Summarization." CSCW 2017.
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RR by C
Project 0: Team Formation
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4 |
9/22 |
Collective Action & Civic Participation
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(1) response Wael Ghonim. "Inside the Egyption Revolution". TED video, 2011 (10 mins) + Wael Ghonim. "Let's Design Social Media that Drives Real Change". TEDGlobal>Geneva video, 2015 (13 mins).
(2) Kate Starbird and Leysia Palen. "Voluntweeters: Self-organizing by digital volunteers in times of crisis." CHI 2011.
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RR by A
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4 |
9/24 |
Social Networks 1
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(1) response Motahhare Eslami et al. "I always assumed that I wasn't really that close to [her]: Reasoning about Invisible Algorithms in News Feeds." CHI 2015.
(2) Eric Gilbert and Karrie Karahalios. "Predicting tie strength with social media." CHI 2009.
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RR by B
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5 |
9/29 |
Social Networks 2
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(1) response Farhad Manjoo. "How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation." The New York Times, 2017.05.31.
(2) Adam Marcus et al. "TwitInfo: Aggregating and Visualizing Microblogs for Event Exploration." CHI 2011.
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RR by C
Project 1: Ideation
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5 |
10/1 |
No class (Chuseok) |
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6 |
10/6 |
Project Feedback Meetings
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6 |
10/8 |
Project Feedback Meetings
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7 |
10/13 |
Project Pitches
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7 |
10/15 |
Project Pitches
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Project 2: Pitch
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8 |
10/20 |
No class (Midterms week) |
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8 |
10/22 |
No class (Midterms week) |
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9 |
10/27 |
Crowdsourcing & Human Computation
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(1) response Luis Von Ahn and Laura Dabbish. "Labeling images with a computer game." CHI 2004.
(2) Anhai Doan et al. "Crowdsourcing systems on the World-Wide Web." Communications of the ACM, April 2011.
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RR by all |
9 |
10/29 |
Platforms & Workers
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(1) response Lilly C. Irani and M. Silberman. "Turkopticon: interrupting worker invisibility in amazon mechanical turk." CHI 2013.
(2) Panagiotis Ipeirotis. "Analyzing the amazon mechanical turk marketplace." XRDS: Crossroads 17.2 (2010): 16-21.
(3) Jeffrey P. Bigham. "My MTurk (half) Workday."
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RR by A
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10 |
11/3 |
Crowd Programming & Workflows
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(1) response Michael S. Bernstein et al. "Soylent: a word processor with a crowd inside." UIST 2010.
(2) Jeffrey P. Bigham et al. "VizWiz: nearly real-time answers to visual questions." UIST 2010.
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Assignment 2: Be a Crowd Worker
RR by B
|
10 |
11/5 |
Quality Control 1
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(1) response Rion Snow et al. "Cheap and fast---but is it good?: evaluating non-expert annotations for natural language tasks." EMNLP 2008.
(2) Panos Ipeirotis. "Worker Evaluation in Crowdsourcing: Gold Data or Multiple Workers?" 2010.
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Project 3: Low-fi Prototype
RR by C
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11 |
11/10 |
Quality Control 2
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(1) response Harris, Mark. "How a lone hacker shredded the myth of crowdsourcing." Wired, 2015.
(2) Harper. "Crowdsourcing isn't broken." Wired, 2015.
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RR by A |
11 |
11/12 |
Antisocial Behavior & Moderation
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(1) response Justin Cheng et al. "Anyone Can Become a Troll: Causes of Trolling Behavior in Online Discussions." CSCW 2017.
(2) Shagun Jhaver et al. "Does Transparency in Moderation Really Matter?: User Behavior After Content Removal Explanations on Reddit." CSCW 2019.
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RR by B
|
12 |
11/17 |
Incentives & Gamification
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(1) response Gerard Beenan et al. "Using social psychology to motivate contributions to online communities." CSCW 2004.
(2) Chris Lintott. "How to discover a planet from your sofa." TEDxCERN Video, 2013 (12 mins).
(3) Thorin Klosowski, "The Psychology of Gamification: Can Apps Keep You Motivated?" LifeHacker, February 2014.
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RR by C
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12 |
11/19 |
Experimentation
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(1) response Reinecke, Katharina, and Krzysztof Z. Gajos. "LabintheWild: Conducting Large-Scale Online Experiments With Uncompensated Samples." CSCW 2015.
(2) Kohavi, Ron, et al. "Online controlled experiments at large scale." KDD 2013.
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RR by A |
13 |
11/24 |
Project Feedback Meetings
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Project 4: High-fi Prototype
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13 |
11/26 |
Project Feedback Meetings
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14 |
12/1 |
Human-AI Interaction
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(1) response Marti Hearst, James Allen, Curry I. Guinn, and Eric Horvitz. Mixed-initiative interaction. IEEE Intelligent Systems and their Applications 14.5 (1999): 14-23.
(2) Shyam Sankar. The Rise of Human Computer Cooperation. TED Talk Video, 2012 (12 mins).
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RR by B
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14 |
12/3 |
Ethics & FAccT (Fairness, Accountability, & Transparency)
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(1) Cathy O'Neil. response "The era of blind faith in big data must end." TED Video, 2017 (13 mins).
(2) Carole Cadwalladr and Emma Graham-Harrison. "How Cambridge Analytica turned Facebook ‘likes’ into a lucrative political tool." The Guardian, Mar. 2018.
(3) Nicholas Diakopoulos et al. "Principles for Accountable Algorithms and a Social Impact Statement for Algorithms."
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RR by C |
15 |
12/8 |
Final Presentations |
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Project 5: Final Presentations
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15 |
12/10 |
No class (Undergraduate Admission Interviews Day) |
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16 |
12/15 |
No class (Finals week) |
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16 |
12/17 |
No class (Finals week) |
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Project 6: Final Report |