Mark Ackerman
Location: (Ann Arbor, MI)
Personal Research Web Page: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~ackerm
Keywords: social computing, social search, question-answering, expertise finding, social network analysis, ethnography, collaborative systems
Posted on: Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
Broad Research Area: HCI / CSCW, Social Computing / Social Informatics
Research Interests:
This is joint work with Lada Adamic (Computer Science, School of Information, Complex Systems). We have an on-going project looking at question-and-answer communities (e.g., Yahoo Answers, Stack Overflow, Baidu, Naver) and social search (e.g., Aardvark, kgb). We are looking for a post-doc who is interested in (1) combining ethnographic and large-scale social network analysis techniques in the analysis of these systems, and/or (2) developing mechanisms and components for augmenting the expertise-finding and question-routing in these systems. For the analysis, we are especially interested in cross-cultural issues.
Contact Information:
ackerm@umich.edu
