Program
Day One
June 15, 2017
8:30 AM — 9:00 AM
Refreshments and Registration
9:00 AM — 9:10 AM
Introductory Remarks
9:10 AM — 10:00 AM
In Conversation With Geoff Mulgan
Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive Officer, NESTA
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM
Plenary Talks: Citizen / Public Innovation
Darlene Cavalier, Founder, SciStarter
Tom Kalil, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Group
Dana Lewis, Founder, #OpenAPS
11:00 AM — 11:30 AM
Networking and Coffee Break
11:30 AM — 1:00 PM
Parallel Session 1
Extended abstracts of these talks are available here
- Eoin Cullina, Driving Entrepreneurship Through Crowdsourcing in Scientific Research Funding Agencies
 - Thomas Malone, Using Contest Webs to Address the Problem of Global Climate Change
 - Chris Welty, Crowdsourcing Ambiguity-Aware Ground Truth
 - Mark Whiting, Designing A Constitution for a Self-Governing Crowdsourcing Marketplace
 - Andrew Young, Leveraging Corporate Data and Collective Intelligence to Solve Public Problems: Data Collaboratives as Prize-Backed Challenges
 
Parallel Session 2
Extended abstracts of these talks are available here
- Jordan B. Barlow, Collective Intelligence and its Relationship to Collective Individual Intelligence
 - Carsten Bergenholtz, The Ikea-effect in Collective Problem Solving
 - Shi Kai Chong, Large-Scale Experiment on the Importance of Social Learning and Unimodality in the Wisdom of the Crowd
 - Jeremy Foote, The Behavior and Network Position of Peer Production Community Founders
 - Alejandro Noriega Campero, Wisdom of Dynamic Networks: Selective Social Learning and the Adaptive Wisdom of the Crowd
 
1:00 PM — 2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM — 3:00 PM
Plenary Talks: Organizing and Organizations
Mark Ackerman, George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Noshir Contractor, Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University
Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Assistant Professor, NYU Stern School of Business
3:00 PM — 4:00 PM
Poster Session 1
- Lora Aroyo, Crowdsourcing for Video Event Detection
 - David Baltaxe, Amplifying Prediction Accuracy using Human Swarms
 - Jordan B. Barlow, Emergent Roles in Computer-Mediated Collective Work
 - Ohad Barzilay, A Potato Salad with a Lemon Twist: Using Supply-Side Shocks to Study the Impact of Low-Quality Actors on Crowdfunding Platforms
 - Hanna Halaburda, Incentives and Trust in Blockchain Technologies
 - Kurt Luther, Crowdsourced Image Geolocation as Collective Intelligence
 - Ian Miller, Influence on GitHub: Individual Limits and Organization Advantages
 - Manuel Moritz, Collaborative Competition or Competitive Collaboration? Exploring User Behavior in Community-based Innovation Contests
 - Frank Nagle, Goldilocks and the Three Programmers: Unpacking the Relationship Between Online Contributions and Productivity at Work
 - Pinar Ozturk, Dialog Classification in Wikipedia
 - Carlos Parra, Collective Intelligence and Institutional (In)Stability
 - Jie Ren, Comparing Divergent Thinking and Creativity Performance in the Crowd versus Experts –The Moderating Role of Task Type
 - Feng Shi, Wisdom of Polarized Crowds
 - Jesse Shore, Network structure and patterns of information diversity on Twitter
 - Adriana Silva, Mapaton The unsustainable mobility case of México City
 - Tim Straub, Partition Dependence Bias in Prediction Markets
 - Christopher Welty, Disagreement in Crowdsourcing and Active Learning for Better Distant Supervision Quality
 - Amy X. Zhang, Bridging Discussions and Wikis using Recursive Summarization
 
4:00 PM — 5:00 PM
Keynote: R. Luke Dubois and Lauren McCarthy
R. Luke Dubois, Co-Director and Associate Professor of Integrated Digital Media, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Lauren McCarthy, Assistant Professor, UCLA Design Media Arts
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM
Cocktail hour
Day Two
June 16, 2017
8:30 AM — 9:00 AM
Refreshments and Registration
9:00 AM — 10:30 AM
Plenary Talks: Modeling Intelligence
Bernardo Huberman, Stanford University
Ece Kamar, Researcher, Microsoft Research
Nick Ouellette, Associate Professor, Stanford University
Daniel Weld, Thomas J. Cable / WRF Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow, University of Washington
10:30 AM — 11:00 AM
Networking and Coffee Break
11:00 AM — 12:30 PM
Parallel Session 3
Extended abstracts of these talks are available here
- Young Ji Kim, More Evidence for a General Collective Intelligence Factor in Human Groups: A Meta-Analysis
 - Pantelis Pipergias Analytis, Diversity of preference can increase collective welfare in sequential exploration problems
 - Emile Servan-Schreiber, Debunking Three Myths About Crowd-Based Forecasting
 - Taranjit Singh, Markets and Media: A Case Study of Crowdsourcing During Election Night
 
Parallel Session 4
Extended abstracts of these talks are available here
- Andres Abeliuk, Controlling Collective Behavior Through Position Bias
 - Brent Hecht, The Role of Human Geography in Collective Intelligence
 - Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Delineating Emergent Role Behaviors in Wikipedia
 - Mehdi Moussaid, The propagation of accurate judgments in experimental transmission chains
 
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM — 3:00 PM
Parallel Session 5
Extended abstracts of these talks are available here
- Jiye Baek, Using cohort size to promote content contribution: a field experiment on a discussion forum
 - Giuseppe Carbone, Emergence of Collective Intelligence in Human Groups
 - Pamela Hinds, Co-creating innovation: how feedback exchange processes impact upon innovation in a crowdsourcing platform
 - Thomas Malone, Analyzing Group Interactions Using a Technique Developed for Measuring Consciousness
 - Yuko Sakurai, Toward Crowdsourced Mechanism Design
 
Parallel Session 6
Extended abstracts of these talks are available here
- Yue Han, Collective Exploration: Remixing with Human-based Search Algorithms
 - Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang, Real-time On-Demand Crowd-powered Entity Extraction
 - John Harlow, Proactively Identifying and Correcting for Social Biases in Datasets Proliferating into Civic Technologies
 - Yun Huang, BandCaption: Crowdsourcing Video Caption Corrections
 - John Prpić, Unpacking Blockchains
 
3:00 PM — 4:00 PM
Poster Session 2
- Lora Aroyo, Improving NER Performance by Harnessing Diversity of Machines and Crowds
 - Edmond Awad, Did They Escape? Judging Groups at Face Value
 - David Baltaxe, Human Swarms amplify accuracy in Honesty Detection
 - Tyler Burleigh, The HUMAN Project: a public resource for representative big data research addressing societal problems
 - Philip Feldman, Modeling The Law of Group Polarization
 - Sai Gouravajhala, Towards Hybrid Intelligence for Robotics
 - Tom Grad, The Role of Cognitive Distance in Crowd-based Evaluations
 - Justin Longo, OPEN AMC: Opening governance in the New York University Administrative Management Council
 - Luana Marinho, Argos: Crowdlaw Web Tool
 - Hamed Nilforoshan, Segment-Predict-Explain for Automatic Writing Feedback
 - Charles Pezeshki, Origins of Collective Intelligence: Is there a Homology between Social Networks and Knowledge Structures?
 - Yulistina Riyadi, Collaborative Translation to Better Listen to Citizen Feedback and Voices on a Public Sector Programme
 - Tom Saunders, Governing with Collective Intelligence
 - Danny Sierra, Motivational factors from citizens in participating civic crowdsourcing initiatives
 - Irene Tello Arista, Using crowdsourcing and crowdlaw to enact anti-corruption legislation
 - Benjamin Timmermans, ControCurator: Understanding Controversy Using Collective Intelligence
 - W. Ben Towne, Even on Wikipedia, Draft Status Makes A Difference
 - Gianluigi Viscusi, Crowd Dynamics and Crowd Capital in Small Teams: Insights from three crowdsourcing exercises in higher education
 - Christopher Welty, The Quantum Collective
 
4:00 PM — 5:30 PM
Plenary Talks: Government Use of Public / Crowd Participation
Eric Gordon, Professor , Emerson College
Karen Levy, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Kate Starbird, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Erin Simpson, Director of Programs, Civic Hall Labs
5:30 PM — 5:45 PM
Closing Remarks
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