What: Camille Cobb: Designing for the Deluge
When: Tuesday, Feb 25 @ 12 noon (Every other Tuesday this quarter)
Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203
Join us tomorrow for Change. This week Camille Cobb will be presenting
recent work done at UW on designing for digital volunteers on social media.
*Abstract*
Social media is a potentially valuable source of situational awareness
information during crisis events. Consistently, "digital volunteers" and
others are coming together to filter and process this data into usable
resources, often coordinating their work within distributed online
groups. However, current tools and practices are frequently unable to
keep up with the speed and volume of incoming data during large events.
Through contextual interviews with emergency response professionals and
digital volunteers, this research examines the ad hoc, collaborative
practices that have emerged to help process this data and outlines
strategies for supporting and leveraging these efforts in future
designs. We argue for solutions that align with current group values,
work practices, volunteer motivations, and organizational structures,
but also allow these groups to increase the scale and efficiency of
their operations.
*About the Speaker*
Camille Cobb is a second year PhD student in CSE co-advised by Kate
Starbird and Gaetano Borriello. She graduated in 2012 from Washington
and Lee University with a BS in physics and a BA in computer science.
She is originally from Charlotte, NC. Camille's is interested in
interdisciplinary projects that have a motivation or application beyond
computer science and has been working on this crisis related project
since she started at UW.
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