The 3rd Workshop on Social Computing and User Generated Content

June 16, 2013, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

in conjunction with

ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACM-EC 2013)

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We solicit research contributions (both new and recently published) and participants for the Workshop on Social Computing and User Generated Content, to be held in conjunction with the 14th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACM-EC 2013). 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.

News

Workshop schedule is announced!
The workshop will be held from 11:30am to 5:40pm on June 16.< There will also be a tutorial on social computing and user generated content, given by Yiling Chen and Arpita Ghosh at EC ’13 on June 16th from 9:00am to 11:30am.

Timeline

April 22, 2013: Submissions due Midnight EDT.

May 6, 2013: Notification of accepted research contributions.

June 16, 2013: Workshop

Please submit all papers through the link below:

Organizing Committee

Yiling Chen, Harvard University

Arpita Ghosh, Cornell University

Contact and Further Information

Email the organizing committee: sc13.organizers@gmail.com

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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 to

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

We solicit both new work and work recently published or soon to be published in another venue. For submissions of the latter kind, authors must clearly state the venue of publication. The workshop will not have an archival proceedings. Reports on work in progress, position papers and panel discussion proposals are also welcome. Research contributions will be selected based on relevance, technical merit, and likelihood to catalyze discussion.

Submissions can be in any format and can be up to 18 pages long (excluding appendices). We recommend the ACM ‘s single-column format (LaTeX; Word). Please submit all papers through link below by April 22, 2013:

At least one author of each accepted research contribution will be expected to attend and present their work at the workshop.