Aniket Kittur
Location: (Pittsburgh, PA)
Personal Research Web Page: http://kittur.org
Keywords: social computing, HCI, peer production, social collaboration, sensemaking, insight, wiki, Wikipedia, distributed cognition, collective intelligence, higher order cognition, categorization, scientific discovery
Posted on: Monday, June 8th, 2009
Broad Research Area: Databases / Information Retrieval / Data Mining, Graphics / Visualization, HCI / CSCW, Information Systems / Information Science, Numerical/Scientific Computing / HPC / Data-Intensive Scalable Computing, Scientific/Medical Informatics, Social Computing / Social Informatics
Research Interests:
The primary goal of my research is to help people make sense of overwhelming amounts of information by combining the flexibility of higher-order cognition, the strengths of social collaboration, and the power of machine learning and visualization. My current research uses technology to help large groups of people collaborate to produce knowledge and solve problems that exceed an individual’s cognitive capacity. To this end I have pursued two complementary lines of research: first, investigating how to optimally harness the “wisdom of crowds” in social collaborative systems such as Wikipedia; and second, building machine learning and visualization-based techniques to increase the effectiveness of these systems.
