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Theoretical Foundations for Social Computing


   Workshop Report   

June 29-30, 2015

Washington D.C.
Sofitel Washington DC Lafayette Square, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, United States



Event Contact

Ann Drobnis
adrobnis@cra.org


Event Type

2015 Events, 2015 Visioning Activities, Visioning Activities, Workshop


Event Category

CCC

Overview

Social computing encompasses the mechanisms through which people interact with computational systems—for instance, crowdsourcing platforms, ranking and recommendation systems, online prediction markets, or collaboratively edited wikis. Social computing is blossoming into a rich research area of its own, with contributions from diverse disciplines spanning computer science, economics, sociology, systems research, and HCI, to name just a few.

Foundational theoretical research has great potential to influence and shape the future of social computing. However, while there is a small literature using theoretical models to analyze and propose design recommendations for social computing systems, there are several barriers that must be overcome and questions that must be answered before theory can have the same degree of impact on social computing that it has had in other fields:

  • What are the fundamental social computing problems? Is it possible to identify problems that are general enough to capture the core challenges of social computing across a wide range of applications, yet capture real issues?
  • What are the right models? A growing literature suggests that human behavior in many online settings often deviates from standard economic models of agent behavior, and that these deviations can have significant effects on how to optimally design social computing systems. Defining appropriate models requires a dialog between theory and experimental and empirical research.
  • How should we measure success? When evaluating the progress of the field as a whole, the criteria for success are vague, especially given that the capabilities and uses of social computing systems are changing all the time.

This visioning workshop had three major goals:

  • Identify core problems that the community believes are important to focus on in order to establish theoretical foundations of social computing.
  • Identify ways in which the theory community can learn from existing, ongoing, and future empirical and experimental work.
  • Identify effective ways for the theory community to have impact on social computing in practice.
Agenda

June 29, 2015 (Monday)

08:00 AM Registration and breakfast
09:00 AM Welcome, overview of agenda and proposed goals
09:15 AM Panel

Eric Gilbert,
Ashish Goel,
Joseph Konstan,
David Parkes

10:45 AM Break
11:15 AM 1-minute intros
12:00 PM Lunch
01:00 PM Short talks

David McDonald,
Sid Suri,
Arpita Ghosh

01:45 PM Organize into breakout groups
02:00 PM Breakout discussions 1 (part 1)
02:45 PM Break
03:15 PM Breakout discussions 1 (part 2)
04:00 PM Reports from breakout session
04:30 PM Group discussion
06:30 PM Dinner

June 30, 2015 (Tuesday)

08:00 AM Breakfast
09:00 AM Short talk and organization into breakout groups

Michael Kearns

09:30 AM Breakout discussions 2 (part 1)
10:15 AM Break
10:45 AM Breakout discussions 2 (part 2)
11:30 AM Reports from breakout session
12:00 PM Lunch
01:00 PM Discussion, feedback, and wrap-up
Participants

Organizing Committee:

Jenn Wortman Vaughan
Microsoft Research

Arpita Ghosh
Cornell

Yiling Chen
Harvard

Tim Roughgarden
Stanford

 

With Support From:

Lorenzo Alvisi
UT Austin

Ann Drobnis
Director, CCC

Tal Rabin
IBM Research

Salil Vadhan
Harvard

Logistics

Date: June 29-30, 2015
Location: Hotel Sofitel, Washington, DC

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will cover travel expenses for all participants who desire it. The CCC will make hotel reservations (as indicated on your registration) at the workshop hotel.  Participants will be asked to make their own travel arrangements to get to the workshop, including purchasing airline tickets. Following the symposium, CCC will circulate a reimbursement form that participants will need to complete and submit, along with copies of receipts for amounts exceeding $75.

In general, standard Federal travel policies apply: CCC will reimburse for non-refundable economy airfare on U.S. Flag carriers; per diem amounts will be enforced; and no alcohol will be covered.For more information on Federal reimbursement guidelines, please follow the links below:

General Travel
International Travel

Additional questions about the reimbursement policy should be directed to Ann Drobnis, CCC Director (adrobnis [at] cra.org).

Resources

Participant Bios

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