The
Human-Computer Interaction Group is involved in the NSF-funded
“Cybertools” project, also known as “Very
Large Semi-Structured Datasets for Social Science Research,”
supported by the National
Science Foundation. This iteration of that project focuses on
ways to give social scientists access to archived crawls of the
World Wide Web. The idea is to create a set of tools that can
facilitate social scientists’ research with this and other
very large corpuses of semi-structured data. Analysis is conceived
in both in the historical sense, of maintaining an archive of
the Internet so its development and changing pattern of use can
be explored, and also more real-time analyses based, for example,
on blogs. Yevgeniy
Medynskiy and Tom Jenkins are currently working with Thomas Lento
(in the context of Geri Gay's INFO 440/640 Advanced Human-Computer
Interaction Class) to establish basic support for collaboration
between Cornell's computer and information scientists, and sociologists.
They are working to design interfaces for sociologists to access
the tools and data to analyze very large, technically-mediated
social networks (such as the LiveJournal
blogging community). From this work we hope to extract design
principles and inspirations that will guide the creation of future
tools and the structure of future collaborations.
Participants
* Geri Gay
Professor/Chair, Communication Dept.
Director, Human-Computer Interaction Group
Jon
Kleinberg
Professor, Computer Science Dept.
Daniel
Huttenlocher
Professor, Computer Science Dept.
Professor and Corning Director of Technology Management in the
Cornel Johnson Graduate School of Management
Bill
Arms
Professor, Computer Science Dept.
Michael
Macy
Professor/Chair, Sociology Dept.
David
Strang
Professor, Sociology Dept.
Lars
Backstrom
Graduate Student, Computer Science Dept. (working with Jon
Kleinberg)
Thomas
Lento
Graduate Student, Sociology Dept. (working with Michael Macy)
Blazej
Kot
Graduate Student, Information Science Dept. (working with
Bill Arms)
*
Yevgeniy Medynskiy
Undergraduate Student, Computer Science/Information Science
Student Researcher at Human-Computer Interaction Group
Tom
Jenkins
Undergraduate Student, Science & Technology Studies/Information
Science
*Denotes HCI members. |
