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Technology-Mediated Social ParticipationBYU ISYS Seminar
Feb 21, 2014
Derek L. HansenInformation Technology, BYU
[email protected]@shakmatt
Center for the Advanced Study of Communities and Information
Human-Computer Interaction Lab
A World of Social Technologies
Technology-mediated social participation (TMSP)
“The goal is to create new architectures for the online public spaces that energize the population to contribute to vital community and national priorities” - IEEE Computer, Nov. 2010
TMSP Examples
Building the Kingdom via TMSP
Please join & help shape our new BYU LDS Tech Chapter: http://groups.google.com/group/ldstech-byu
Socio-Technical Systems
Cognitive-Technical System Social-Technical System
How a Cockpit Remembers its SpeedHutchins, Edwin
Research on TMSP
• Goals: (1) Improve the world! (2) Develop generalizable knowledge in the process
• Research opportunities:–Develop New Theories of TMSP–Design Novel Technologies & methods to support & analyze TMSP systems
Research Opportunities & Strategies
• Develop tools & methods to study TMSP
• Examine extraordinary socio-technical systems
• Develop & test novel socio-technical interventions in field studies
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additional resources
Making sense of social dataNew Tools to explore relational data
New Methods & Visualizations for Exploring social experience
Techniques for Gaining Insight
Examine Extraordinary Socio-Technical Systems
Develop & Test novel TMSP Interventions
Places to Publish
• ACM – CHI• ACM – CSCW (and GROUP)• ICWSM• Domain-Specific Journals• IEEE - Social Computing
Collaboration Opportunities
• With IT Department – Human-Computer Interaction– Cybersecurity
• Interdisciplinary Courses– Socio-technical design course (515R – this Spring!)– Web and Social Media Analytics (515R 570)– Advanced Human-Computer Interaction (555)– Advanced Web Technologies (510)
