The 1st Workshop on Social Computing and User Generated Content
June 5, 2011, San Jose, California
in conjunction with
ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACM-EC 2011)
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We solicit research contributions and participants for the Workshop on Social Computing and User Generated Content, to be held in conjunction with the 12th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACM-EC 2011). The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners from a variety of relevant fields, including economics, computer science, and social psychology, in both academia and industry, to discuss the state of the art today, and the challenges and prospects for tomorrow in the field of social computing and user generated content.
Timeline
Submission deadline extends to April 22, 2011, 5pm EDT.
Submission deadline: April 15, 2011, 5pm EDT
May 2, 2011: Notification of accepted research contributions
June 5, 2011: Workshop date
Organizing Committee
Yiling Chen, Harvard University
Arpita Ghosh, Cornell University
Contact and Further Information
Email the organizing committee: sc13.organizers@gmail.com
Webmaster: Ann Marie King, webmaster-sc2011@seas.harvard.edu
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Call for Papers
Social Computing and User Generated Content
Social computing systems are now ubiquitous on the web– Wikipedia is perhaps the most well-known peer production system, and there are many platforms for crowdsourcing tasks to online users, including Games with a Purpose, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, the TopCoder competitions for software development, and many online Q&A forums such as Yahoo! Answers. Meanwhile, the user-created product reviews on Amazon generate value to other users looking to buy or choose amongst products, while Yelp’s value comes from user reviews about listed services; and a significant fraction of the content consumed online consists of user-generated, publicly viewable social media such as blogs or YouTube, as well as comments and discussion threads on these blogs and forums.
Workshop Topics
The workshop aims to bring together participants with diverse perspectives to address the important research questions surrounding social computing and user generated content: Why do users participate- what factors affect participation levels, and what factors affect the quality of participants’ contributions? How can participation be improved, both in terms of the number of participants and the quality of user contributions? What design levers can be used to design better social computing systems? Finally, what are novel ways in which social computing can be used to generate value? The answers to these questions will inform the future of social computing; both towards improving the design of existing sites, as well as contributing to the design of new social computing applications. Papers from a rich set of experimental, empirical, and theoretical perspectives are invited. The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited t
- Incentives in peer production systems
- Experimental studies on social computing systems
- Empirical studies on social computing systems
- Models for user behavior
- Crowdsourcing and Wisdom of the Crowds
- Games with a purpose
- Online question-and-answer systems
- Game-theoretic approaches to social computing
- Quality and spam control in user generated content
- Rating and ranking user generated content
- Manipulation resistant ranking schemes
- User behavior and incentives on social media
- Trust and privacy in social computing systems
- Social-psychological approaches to incentives for contribution
- Usability and user experience
Submission Instructions
Research papers should report unpublished research results or ongoing research. The workshop will not have an archival proceedings: this means that submissions may be simultaneously under review at a different venue, and the same material may be published later in a journal or archival conference proceedings. Position papers and panel discussion proposals are also welcome. Research contributions will be selected based on relevance, technical merit, and likelihood of catalyzing discussion.
Submissions can be in any format and can be up to 10 pages long (excluding appendices). We recommend the double column ACM proceedings format, see http://www.sigecom.org/ec11/papers.html.
All contributions should be submitted electronically to the organizing committee at sc-organizers@seas.harvard.edu no later than 5pm EDT April 15, 2011.
At least one author of each accepted research contribution will be expected to attend and present their work at the workshop.
Important Dates
April 15, 2011: Submissions due 5pm EDT
May 2, 2011: Notification of accepted research contributions
June 5, 2011: Workshop date
Organizing Committee
Yiling Chen, Harvard University
Arpita Ghosh, Cornell University
More Information
For more information or questions, email the organizing committee: sc13.organizers@gmail.com
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Program Committee
Luis Von Ahn, Carnegie Mellon University
Chris Dellarocas, Boston University
Coye Cheshire, University of California, Berkeley
Lian Jian, University of Southern California
Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School
Preston McAfee, Yahoo! Research
Robert Miller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Parkes, Harvard University
Paul Resnick, University of Michigan
Siddharth Suri, Yahoo! Research
Jenn Wortman Vaughan, University of California, Los Angeles
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Schedule & Papers
8:30am-10:00am
Opening remarks
- Tracy Xiao Liu, Jiang Yang, Lada A. Adamic, and Yan Chen. Crowdsourcing with All-pay Contests: a Field Experiment on Taskcn.
- Dawei Shen, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Andrew Lippman. Barter – Mechanism Design of A Market-incented Wisdom Exchange for Organizations and Communities.
- Andrei Villarroel and Filipa Reis. A stock market approach to online distributed innovation: Exploring the trade-off between speculation and innovation performance.
- Mithun Chakraborty, Sanmay Das, and Allen Lavoie, Malik Magdon-Ismail, and Yonatan Naamad. Instructor Rating Markets.
10:00am-10:30am: Coffee Break
10:30am-11:30am
- Radu Jurca and Boi Faltings. Incentives for Answering Hypothetical Questions.
- Jens Witkowski and David C. Parkes. Peer Prediction with Private Beliefs.
- David Rothschild. Expectations: Point-Estimates, Probability Distributions, Confidence, and Forecasts.
11:30am-12:45 pm
Panel on Crowdsourcing: Todd Carter (Tagasauris), Matt Cooper (oDesk), and Mike Lydon (TopCoder)
12:45pm – 1:45pm: Lunch Break
1:45pm – 2:45 pm
- Haoqi Zhang, Eric Horvitz, Yiling Chen, and David C. Parkes. Task Routing for Prediction Tasks.
- Shuchi Chawla, Jason D. Hartline, and Balasubramanian Sivan. Optimal Crowdsourcing Contests.
- Shaili Jain and David C. Parkes. Combinatorial Agency of Threshold Functions.
2:45-3:30 pm: Invited Talk
Jon Kleinberg. Signed Networks and User Evaluation.
Abstract: Users express opinions about each other in on-line domains for a wide variety of reasons; when these opinions are viewed in aggregate, a pattern of positive and negative relationships emerges that can be analyzed as a network with signs on its links. We discuss a set of models for how positive and negative relationships interact within such networks, based on competing theories for how these signed links should be interpreted. We then describe some analysis of positive and negative relationships in data from on-line social networks, and we use this data to evaluate and extend the underlying theories.
The talk draws on joint work with Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Dan Huttenlocher, Bobby Kleinberg, Gueorgi Kossinets, Lillian Lee, Jure Leskovec, Seth Marvel, and Steve Strogatz.