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HCIL Brown Bag: Social Information Spaces: Designing for Smart(er) Societies
HCIL (2105 Hornbake Building, South Wing)
Thursday, April 30, 2015, 12:30-1:30 pm Calendar
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Abstract

People are pretty smart. When someone uses bad information, it’s often because the tools they use to find that information were not designed to support good assessments. The need for an integrated HCI response to the problem of information assessment is critical in an age of participatory information sources like Wikipedia, Wikia sites, Reddit, and Ancestry.com. These are information sources produced and curated by thousands of contributors using collaboration or aggregation platforms. Such technologies can be designed to support human needs in different ways; for example, they can be designed using well-understood principles of usability, accessibility, or ergonomics. However, HCI currently lacks a shared vocabulary for talking about “assessability” — those properties of designed spaces that allow people to make good judgments about the information they encounter there. Assessable designs don’t just deliver assessments of information quality, but support people in getting *better* at judging the information they encounter online.

Bio

Andrea Forte (andreaforte.net) is an assistant professor in the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University. Her work focuses on how social technologies can be designed to support the development of both information and computational literacies. Andrea's research spans several disciplines and she regularly publishes in the areas of human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work and social computing (CSCW), computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL), computing education, and library science. She is a research leader at Drexel’s Expressive and Creative Interaction Technologies (ExCITe) Center. Her current projects are supported by the National Science Foundation and Institute for Museum and Library Services. She is an NSF CAREER award winner, holds a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Institute of Technology, and a masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

This talk is organized by Daniel Pauw