We are on site in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and will be broadcasting the 1st International Workshop on Social Machines at the WWW2013 Conference tomorrow from 1pm Brazilian Standard Time (5pm British Summer Time).
The event will be broadcasted live on the SOCM2013 channel of Ustream.tv
Click for the agenda and the welcome and here to see the proceedings.
We are pleased to announce that one of our first SOCIAM conference papers has been accepted for presentation at CHI2013 in Paris on April 27, 2013.
Our paper, “Carpé Data: Supporting Serendipitous Data Integration in Personal Information Management” discusses 3 studies examining goal of enabling end-users to bring together arbitrary data sources from around the Web for performing more effective sensemaking.
Our two pre-studies demonstrated that, despite the convergence seen on the Web, people still regularly draw information from a plurality of data sources when making important decisions, and that these data sources extensively exhibit primarily simple kinds of heterogeneity.
Our final study in the paper is an evaluation of DataPalette, an interface that supports direct-manipulation-based end-user data integration to solve the most common types of heterogeneity they would encounter.
See a video of DataPalette in action: DataPalette demonstration video
The paper will be presented by Max Van Kleek and Daniel Alexander Smith at CHI2013 on April 27, 2013 in Paris, France. A copy will be available on the ACM Digital Library and is on ePrints.
To launch the Theory and Practice of Social Machines project, we are happy to announce that we will be running a workshop at the WWW 2013 Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in May.
Deadline for position papers is 25 February 2013. We are looking for insights on social machines, social networks, online communities, human computation, distributed coordination and a variety of related topics from researchers across the field.
Please see the details and the call for participation at http://sociam.org/www2013