Designing with Online Crowds

KEC 1003
Monday, April 6, 2015 - 4:00pm to 4:50pm

Brian Bailey
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois

Abstract:
Feedback is a critical component of creative work but receiving effective 
feedback can be surprisingly hard. In this talk, I will describe the concept, 
design, and implementation of a new genre of crowd-based technology that 
enables designers to receive formative feedback on preliminary visual designs 
that is personalized, timely, and low-cost. The system provides scaffolding for 
generating feedback on the designer’s goals, principles in the domain, points 
of emphasis, and first impressions. Two in-situ studies of the system 
highlighted patterns of use for the crowd feedback and showed the feedback 
helps novices improve their designs in an iterative process. The studies also 
showed that the prompted crowd feedback is more interpretative, diverse, and 
critical than the feedback generated without prompts. This genre of technology 
can tighten feedback cycles in practice and enable access to formative feedback 
for those who create designs in service of their professional or per!
sonal goals. The talk will conclude by outlining intriguing pathways for the 
future of crowd feedback for design practice and education.

Speaker Bio:
Brian Bailey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at 
the University of Illinois, where he has been on the faculty since 2002. He 
conducts research and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on user 
interface design and human-computer interaction. Dr. Bailey was a visiting 
researcher at Microsoft Research in 2008-2009. He earned a B.S. in Computer 
Science from Purdue University in 1993 and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the 
University of Minnesota in 1997 and 2002, respectively. His current research 
interests include creativity support tools, studies of design and innovation 
processes, and crowdsourcing. He holds affiliate academic appointments in the 
Beckman Institute and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. 
Dr. Bailey received the NSF CAREER award in 2007. His research has been 
supported by the NSF, Microsoft, Google, and Ricoh Innovations. He serves on 
the editorial boards of the International Journal of Human Computer Studies and 
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the journal Behavior & Information Technology.

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