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Hello TUX!
A reminder that today we have a Member Presentation by Prof. Ashton
Anderson.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Ali, Daniel, and Tovi
TUX Member Presentation: Prof. Ashton Anderson
*October 5, 2018. DGP Lab, Department of Computer Science at U of T @
40 St. George Street Room 5166*
Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm.
*The Design of Social Incentives
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An increasingly common feature of online communities and social media
sites is a mechanism for rewarding user achievements based on a system
of social incentives, such as badges. Badges are given to users for
particular contributions to a site, such as performing a certain number
of actions of a given type. In this talk, I will speak about
how badges can influence and steer user behavior on a site—leading both
to increased participation and to changes in the mix of activities a
user pursues on the site. I’ll introduce a formal model for reasoning
about user behavior in the presence of badges, and in particular for
analyzing the ways in which badges can steer users to change their
behavior. To evaluate the main predictions of our model, we study the
use of badges and their effects on the widely used Stack Overflow
question-answering site, and find evidence that their badges steer
behavior in ways closely consistent with the predictions of our model.
We then investigate the problem of how to optimally place badges in
order to induce particular user behaviors. Several robust design
principles emerge from our framework that could potentially aid in the
design of incentives for a broad range of sites.
Finally, I’ll report on a large-scale deployment of badges as incentives
for engagement in a MOOC, including randomized experiments in which the
presentation of badges was varied across sub-populations. We find
that badges significantly increased student engagement, with the
magnitude of the increase varying with the saliency of
the badge presentation.
*Bio*
Ashton Anderson (University of Toronto) is an Assistant Professor of
Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where he is also a
Faculty Affiliate with the Vector Institute and a Research Fellow in
Behavioural Economics. He received his PhD from Stanford University in
2015 and completed a postdoctoral appointment at Microsoft Research NYC
in 2017. His research in computational social science focuses on
questions in the increasingly vital intersection of data and society.
His work has appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, Sociological Science, and The Web Conference.
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Hi All,
We have our HCI group meeting tomorrow at 12:30 PM at DGP Seminar room.
Dina Sabie will talk about designing technologies for refugees in Canada.
In addition, she will be talking about what she has done in her Ph.D. so
far and what is her future plan. Lunch will be provided during the meeting.
Please drop by and give your feedback. People who are very busy with
term-end items (exams, deadlines, etc.): you can still show up, say a hi to
Dina and others, have your lunch, and leave early before the presentation
starts. But please stay if you can. The presentation will start at 12:55 PM.
Thanks,
Rifat
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Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat
Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/
Hello all,
We will have a reading group session tomorrow (Monday, Dec 10th) from 2 to 3 pm at the seminar room. Jiannan will lead the discussion on the paper
Researcher-Centered Design of Statistics: Why Bayesian Statistics Better Fit the Culture and Incentives of HCI
Link: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2858465
Looking forward to seeing you then.
Thanks,
Jiannan
