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Distributed Problem Solving: Toward technology that supports collaborative work on difficult problems by minimizing process losses and maximizes process gains
Wednesday, February 25, 2015, 11:00 am-12:00 pm Calendar
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Abstract

I plan to discuss two projects. The first is a project in which my collaborators and I designed and built a system to change the way in which people were communicating in a group by giving real-time language feedback. The second is a project in which my collaborators and I identified patterns in the way in which mathematicians were collaborating on research level math problems. The first project uses bag-of-word techniques to give feedback messages, the second has potential applications that would benefit from NLP.

Bio

Yla is an Assistant Professor in social computing at the University of Maryland, College Park's iSchool. Her research focuses on improving collaboration in peer-production communities, such as Wikipedia or Stack Overflow. She works on a variety of questions, including how to enhance computer-mediated communication to make group conversations more efficient and how to design peer-production systems to support distributed problem solving at an unprecedented scale. Through naturalistic observation, field experiments, and surveys Yla examines social motivations, interactions and communication. Prior to a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon's Human Computer Interaction Institute, Yla received her PhD in social and personality psychology from the University of Texas at Austin.

This talk is organized by Jimmy Lin