Center for the Study of Complex Systems
Seminar Series
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Room 4448 East Hall*
12:00 - 1:00 pm
SPEAKER:
Eytan Adar,
Assistant Professor, School of Information, & Computer Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
Title:
Applications of Networks and Text in Interface Design
Abstract: The interaction between the end-user and the interface is
almost always a personal interaction. However, there are many
situations where the interfaces serve to connect people or bridge
people and information artifacts (text, multimedia, etc.). The
networks that emerge through these connections can be mined and used
to improve the user experience in significant ways. For this talk,
I'm going to relate some of our recent experiences in network and text
mining to support novel interaction techniques ranging from scientific
concept tracking to citation recommendation to social feed ranking.
I'll talk about a few specific systems--Butterworth and CiteSight--which
demonstrate this idea, but will also try to describe the approach that
has made these successful. In particular, I'll focus on some of the
unconventional sources of network data and transformations that we
have been able to leverage to achieve desired interface improvements.
By looking to large-scale networks to solve text problems, or looking
to Web-scale text collections instead of the single end-user's
behavior, we're able to improve the user experience for many different
problems in dramatic ways.
Bio: Eytan Adar is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information
& Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. He
completed his doctoral work in the Computer Science and Engineering
Department at the University of Washington. He works broadly at the
intersection of HCI and IR/Data Mining and ranges from empirical
studies of large-scale online behaviors to building new systems, tools
and methods. Before graduate school, Eytan was a researcher at HP
Labs and Xerox PARC for a number of years (spinning out a company
called Outride somewhere in there). He received his Master of
Engineering and Bachelor of Science degrees from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Eytan was co-founder of ICWSM and is
currently General Co-Chair for ICWSM'14. His website is at
http://www.cond.org
*PLEASE NOTE THAT 4448 EAST HALL WILL BE THE LOCATION OF THE REMAINDER OF THE COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR SERIES FOR 2014.
(to find this room, go to the East Hall Annex off Church Street - north entrance doors (Psychology) and take stairs to fourth floor, or take elevator located just inside first set of doors at Church St. entrance - to 4th floor)
