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Michigan Interactive and Social Computing (MISC) connects researchers studying human-computer interaction, social computing, and computer-supported cooperative work across the University of Michigan.

MISC at CHI 2012

MISC members contributed to nine CHI papers and notes this year, and will also be participating in several workshops, three courses, and one SIG meeting in Austin, Texas. We also have two teams in the Student Design Contribution; come cheer them on!

Papers & Notes

Cliff Lampe, Jessica Vitak, Rebecca Gray, Nicole B Ellison
Tao Dong, Mira Dontcheva, Diana Joseph, Karrie Karahalios, Mark W Newman, Mark S Ackerman
The Way I Talk to You: Sentiment Expression in an Organizational Context
Jiang Yang, Lada A Adamic, Mark S Ackerman, Zhen Wen, Ching-Yung Lin
Successful Classroom Deployment of a Social Document Annotation System
Sacha Zyto, David R Karger, Mark S Ackerman, Sanjoy Mahajan
Of BATs and APEs: An Interactive Tabletop Game for Natural History Museums
Michael S. Horn, Zeina Atrash Leong, Florian Block, Judy Diamond, Margaret Evans, Brenda Phillips, Chia Shen
A Quantitative Explanation of Governance in an Online Peer-Production Community
Chandan Sarkar, Donghee Yvette Wohn, Cliff Lampe, Kurt DeMaagd

Student Design Competition

fridgeTop: Bringing home-like experience back to kitchen space
Shwetangi Savant, Gin L Chieng, Szu-Hsuan Lai, Yi-yu Lin, Ityam Vasal
StoryCubes: Connecting elders in independent living through storytelling
Micah Linnemeier, Yi-Ying Lin, Gierad Laput, Ramachandra Kishore Vijjapurapu

Workshop papers

Information Fragmentation and Continuity of Care in Bone Marrow Transplant
at the Bridging Clinical and Non-clinical Health Practices workshop

Courses

Human-Computer Interaction: Introduction and Overview
Keith A. Butler, Robert J.K. Jacob, David Kieras
Supporting Community with Social Media
John M. Carroll, Cliff Lampe
Evidenced-Based Social Design of Online Communities (based on the book!)
Robert Kraut, Paul Resnick

SIG Meeting

Reject Me: Peer Review and SIGCHI
Michael S Bernstein, Dan Cosley, Carl DiSalvo, Sanjay Kairam, David Karger, Travis Kriplean, Cliff Lampe, Wendy Mackay, Loren Terveen, Jacob Wobbrock, Sarita Yardi

Book signing

Robert Kraut, Paul Resnick @ 6:30-7:15, Monday, MIT Press booth at the welcome reception
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