Editing Interpersonal Media (Winter 2019) (section)

=== February 19 (Tue): Social Computing Systems ===

We have a special guest this week: [http://www.andresmh.com/ Andrés Monroy-Hernandez!] Andrés was previously at Microsoft Research and is currently a lead research scientist at Snap Inc., the maker of Snapchat.  Andrés has research interests ranging from civic communities to educational communities and more recently he is focusing on "social computing systems," which we will learn about today.

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'''Required Readings:'''
* Howe, J. (2006). [https://www.wired.com/2006/06/crowds/ The rise of crowdsourcing]. Wired Magazine, 14(6), 1–4.
* [Case] [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSMechTurk/latest/RequesterUI/Introduction.html Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester UI Guide]
* [Case] [https://mturkpublic.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/MTURK_BP.pdf Amazon Mechanical Turk Best Practices Guide].


'''Optional Readings:'''

Our guest speaker will be talking about these three papers. It might be good to look these over before class:

* Justin Cranshaw, Emad Elwany, Todd Newman, Rafal Kocielnik, Bowen Yu, Sandeep Soni, Jaime Teevan, and Andrés Monroy-Hernández. 2017. Calendar.help: Designing a Workflow-Based Scheduling Agent with Humans in the Loop. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2382-2393. [https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025780 (Open Access)]
* Cranshaw, J., Monroy-Hernández, A., & Needham, S. A. (2016). [https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858573 Journeys & Notes: Designing Social Computing for Non-Places]. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 4722–4733). New York, NY, USA: ACM. [Available through UW libraries]
* Agapie, E., & Monroy-Hernández, A. (2015). [http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.01300 Eventful: Crowdsourcing Local News Reporting]. arXiv:1507.01300 [Cs].