Service

 

Advancing Human Computation as a Field of Research

Human computation is a relatively new and rapidly evolving research area. As such, there has been a myriad of conflicting terminologies and definitions, as well as a general sense of confusion about the scope of the field and what the core research questions are.  Until 2009, there was also a lack of research community in human computation.  My three most significant contributions to the field, in terms of professional service, are: (1) a book on human computation, (2) AAAI tutorial on human computation, and (3) co-organization of the Human Computation (HCOMP) workshop series at KDD and AAAI.

book, downloaded ~500 times since August 2011

AAAI tutorial: “Core Research Questions and State of the Art”

HCOMP workshops

2009, 2010, 2011

Other Professional Activities


I also support other research activities related to human computation and crowdsourcing, including serving on the program committee / reviewer for NIPS workshop for Computational Social Science and Wisdom of the Crowd (2010, 2011), SIGIR third crowdsourcing workshop for information retrieval (2011), Journal of Information Retrieval Special Issue on Crowdsourcing (2011), and AAAI Spring Symposium on Wisdom of the Crowd (2012).


I serve as an external advisor for a NSF-supported citizen science project (called “CrowdID”) at Cornell University, where I am responsible for attending an annual team meeting and providing guidance throughout the project.  I am also on the program committee for AAAI Special Track on Computational Sustainability and AI (2012).

I have served as a reviewer or member of the program committee for a variety of HCI and machine learning conferences and journals:


  1. •Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2011

  2. •ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2011

  3. •Neural Information Processing Conference (NIPS) 2011

  4. •International Conference of Weblog and Social Media (ICWSM) 2010

  5. •The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2009, 2010, 2011

  6. •Journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing (EURASIP)

  7. •ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)

  8. •Communications of the ACM (CACM)