ACL 2024: Lin, Y-C, Neville, J., Stokes, Jack W., Yang, L., Safavi. T., Wan, M., Counts, S., Suri, S., Andersen, R., Xu, X., Gupta, D., Jauhar, S., Song, X., Buscher, G., Tiwary, S., Hecht, B., and Teevan, J. Interpretable User Satisfaction Estimation for Conversational Systems with Large Language Models. Association for Computational Linguistics 2024. PDF Preprint
ACM CHI 2024: Precel, H., McDonald, A., Hecht, B., and Vincent, N. A Canary in the AI Coal Mine: American Jews May Be Disproportionately Harmed by Intellectual Property Dispossession in Large Language Model Training. ACM SIGCHI 2024. PDF Preprint | PDF
PNAS: Tao, Y., Yang, L., Jaffe, S., Amini, F., Bergen, P., Hecht, B. and You, F. Climate mitigation potentials of teleworking are sensitive to changes in lifestyle and workplace rather than ICT usage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2023. Full PDF
Microsoft Technical Report: Cambon, A., Hecht, B., Edelman, B., Ngwe, D., Jaffe, S., Heger, A., Vorvoreanu, M., Peng, S., Hofman, J., Farach, A., Bermejo-Cano, M., Knudsen, E., Bono, J., Sanghavi, H., Spatharioti, S., Rothschild, D., Goldstein, D.G., Kalliamvakou, E., Cihon, P., Demirer, M., Schwarz, M., and Teevan, J. Early LLM-based Tools for Enterprise Information Workers Likely Provide Meaningful Boosts to Productivity. Microsoft Technical Report. 2023. Full PDF
Edited Volume: Butler, J., Jaffe, S., Baym, N., Czerwinski, M., Iqbal, S., Nowak, K., Rintel, R., Sellen, A., Vorvoreanu, M., Hecht, B., and Teevan, J. Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2023 (Third Edition). 2023. Full PDF
ACM Tran. Rec. Sys.: Tomlinson, K., Wan, M., Lu, C., Hecht, B., and Teevan, J. Targeted Training for Multi-Organization Recommendation. ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems. 2023. New York : ACM Press. Full PDF
ACM FAccT 2023: Li, H. Vincent, N., Chancellor, S., and Hecht, B. The Dimensions of Data Labor: A Road Map for Researchers, Activists, and Policymakers to Empower Data Producers. ACM FAccT ’23 . New York : ACM Press. Full PDF
ACM SIGKDD 2022: Ma, J. Wan, M., Yang, L., Li, J., Hecht, B., and Teevan, J. Learning Causal Effects on Hypergraphs, ACM SIGKDD ’22 . New York : ACM Press. * Best Paper Award
ACM FAccT 2022: Contractor, D., McDuff, D., Haines, J., Lee, J., Hines, C., Hecht, B., Vincent, N., and Li, H. Behavioral Use Licensing for Responsible AI. ACM FAccT 2022. New York : ACM Press HTML | PDF
Edited Volume: Teevan, J., Baym, N., Butler, J., Hecht, B., Jaffe, S., Nowak, J., Yang, L. New Future of Work Report 2022. 2nd ed. Microsoft, 2022. Full PDF | Other Resources
AAAI ICWSM 2022: Lin, H., Hecht, B., and Chancellor, S. Measuring the Monetary Value of Online Volunteer Work. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (AAAI ICWSM ’22). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.
Full PDF
* Best Paper Nomination (Top 1% of Submissions)
AAAI ICWSM 2022: Lin, H., Hecht, B., and Chancellor, S. All That’s Happening Behind the Scenes: Putting the Spotlight on Volunteer Moderator Labor in Reddit. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (AAAI ICWSM ’22). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. Full PDF
Nature Human Behavior: Yang, L., Holtz, D., Jaffe, S., Suri, S., Sinha, S., Weston, J., Joyce, C., Shah, N., Sherman, K., Hecht, B. and Teevan, J. 2021. The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers. Nature Human Behaviour. (Sep. 2021), 1–12. Full PDF
ACM RecSys 2021: Jiang, J.J., Lee, C.J., Yang, L., Sarrafzadeh, B., Hecht, B., and Teevan, J. Learning to Represent Human Motives for Goal-directed Web Browsing. ACM RecSys 2021. New York : ACM Press. Full PDF
ACM CSCW 2021 / PACM CSCW: Vincent, N. and Hecht, B. Can “Conscious Data Contribution” Help Users to Exert “Data Leverage” Against Technology Companies? ACM CSCW 2021 / PACM CSCW. New York : ACM Press. Paper PDF | Archived Code
ACM CSCW 2021 / PACM CSCW: Vincent, N. and Hecht, B. A Deeper Investigation of the Importance of Wikipedia Links to Search Engine Results. ACM CSCW 2021 / PACM CSCW. New York : ACM Press. Paper PDF | Software Library
ACM CSCW 2021 / PACM CSCW: Bandy, J. and Hecht, B. Errors in Geotargeted Display Advertising: Good News for Local Journalism? ACM CSCW 2021 / PACM CSCW. New York : ACM Press. Paper PDF
ACM FAccT 2021 (formerly FAT*): Vincent, N., Li, H., Tilly, N., Chancellor, S., and Hecht, B. Data Leverage: A Framework for Empowering the Public in its Relationship with Technology Companies. ACM FAccT 2021 (formerly FAT*). New York : ACM Press. Paper PDF
ACM SIGCHI 2021: Cao, H., Lee, C.J., Iqbal, S. Czerwinksi, M., Wong, P., Rintel, S., Hecht, B., Teevan, J., and Yang, L. Large Scale Analysis of Multitasking Behavior During Remote Meetings. ACM SIGCHI 2021. New York : ACM Press. Paper PDF
ACM CSCW 2020 / PACM CSCW: Li, Hanlin and Hecht, B. 3 Stars on Yelp, 4 Stars on Google Maps: A Cross-Platform Examination of Restaurant Ratings. ACM CSCW 2020 / PACM CSCW New York : ACM Press. PDF of Paper
ACM Collective Intelligence 2020: Vincent, N. and Hecht, B. Can “Conscious Data Contribution” Help Users to Exert “Data Leverage” Against Technology Companies?. Collective Intelligence 2020 New York : ACM Press. PDF of Paper
ACM CSCW 2019 / PACM CSCW: Li, H., Vincent, N., Tsai, J., Kaye, J., and Hecht, B. How Do People Change Their Technology Use in Protest?: Understanding “Protest Users”. CSCW 2019 / PACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2 (1). New York : ACM Press. PDF of Paper
WWW 2019 / The Web Conference 2019: Vincent, N., Hecht, B, and Sen, S. (2019) “Data Strikes”: Evaluating the Effectiveness of New Forms of Collective Action Against Technology Platforms. Proceedings of the 28th World Wide Web Conference (The Web Conference / WWW 2019). PDF of Paper
AAAI ICWSM 2019: Vincent, N., Johnson, I., Sheehan, P., and Hecht, B. (2019) Measuring the Importance of User-Generated Content to Search Engines. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (AAAI ICWSM ’19). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. PDF of Paper
ACM SIGCHI 2019: Das, M., Hecht, B., and Gergle, D. (2019) The Gendered Geography of Contributions to OpenStreetMap: Complexities in Self-Focus Bias. Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019). New York : ACM Press. PDF of Paper
ACM CSCW / PACM CSCW: Miller, H., Levonian, Z., Kluver, D., Terveen, L., and Hecht, B. (2018) What I See Is What You Don't Get: Effects of Seeing Emoji Rendering Differences Across Platforms. CSCW 2018 / PACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 1 (1). New York : ACM Press. PDF of Paper
ACM CSCW / PACM CSCW: Li, H., Alarcon, B., Espinosa, S.M., and Hecht, B. (2018) Out of Site: Empowering a New Approach to Online Boycotts. CSCW 2018 / PACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 1 (1). New York : ACM Press. PDF of Paper
ACM CSCW / PACM CSCW: Foong, E., Vincent, N., Hecht, B., and Gerber, E. (2018) Women (Still) Ask For Less: Gender Differences in Wage-Setting and Occupation in an Online Labor Marketplace. CSCW 2018 / PACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 1 (1). New York : ACM Press. PDF of Paper
AAAI ICWSM: He, S., Lin, A.Y., Adar, E., and Hecht, B. (2018) The_Tower_of_Babel.jpg: The Diversity of Visual Encyclopedic Knowledge Across Wikipedia Language Editions. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (AAAI ICWSM ’18). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.
* Best Paper Award
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WWW: Lin, A.Y., Ford, J., Adar, E., and Hecht, B. (2018) VizByWiki: Mining Data Visualizations from the Web to Enrich News Articles. Proceedings of the 27th World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2018).
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ACM SIGCHI: Vincent, N., Johnson, I., and Hecht, B. (2018) Examining Wikipedia With a Broader Lens: Quantifying the Value of Wikipedia’s Relationships with Other Large-Scale Online Communities. Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018) . New York : ACM Press.
* Best Paper Award (Top 1% of Submissions)
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ACM SIGCHI: Kariryaa, A., Johnson, I., Schöning, J., and Hecht, B. (2018) Defining and Predicting the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information using Ground Truth Data. Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018) . New York : ACM Press. PDF of Paper
ACM SIGCHI: Thebault-Spieker, J., Halfaker, A., Terveen, L., and Hecht, B. (2018) Distance and Attraction: Gravity Models for Geographic Content Production. Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018) . New York : ACM Press. PDF of Paper
ACM CSCW / PACM CSCW: Thebault-Spieker, J., Kluver, D., Klein, M.A., Halfaker, A., Hecht, B., Terveen, L., and Konstan, J. (2018) Simulation Experiments on (the Absence of) Ratings Bias in Reputation Systems. CSCW 2018 / PACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 1 (1). New York : ACM Press. PDF of Paper
ACM CSCW / PACM CSCW: Dillahunt, T., Wang, X., Wheeler, E., Cheng, H.F., Hecht, B., and Zhu, H. (2018) The Sharing Economy in HCI: A Systematic Literature Review. CSCW 2018 / PACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 1 (1). New York : ACM Press. PDF of Paper | Paper Dataset
ACM GROUP: Thebault-Spieker, J., Hecht, B., and Terveen, L. (2018) Geographic Biases are ‘Born, not Made’: Exploring Contributors’ Spatiotemporal Behavior in OpenStreetMap. The 2018 International ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork (ACM GROUP 2018). New York : ACM Press. PDF of Paper
PACM IMWUT / UbiComp: Johnson, I., Henderson, J., Perry, C., Schöning, J., and Hecht, B. (2017) Beautiful…but at What Cost? An Examination of Externalities in Geographic Vehicle Routing. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (PACM IMWUT / UbiComp ’17) . New York : ACM Press. PDF of Paper
AAAI ICWSM: McMahon, C.*, Johnson, I.*, and Hecht, B. (2017) The Substantial Interdependence of Wikipedia and Google – A Case Study on the Relationship Between Peer Production Communities and Information Technologies. Proceedings of AAAI ICWSM 2017. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.
*Indicates co-First Authors
Best Paper Nomination (Top 1% of Submissions)
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AAAI ICWSM: Miller, H., Kluver, D., Thebault-Spieker, J., Terveen, L., and Hecht, B. (2017) Understanding Emoji Ambiguity in Context: The Role of Text in Emoji-Related Miscommunication. Proceedings of AAAI ICWSM 2017. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. PDF of Paper
ACM MobileHCI: Wenig, N., Wenig, D., Ernst, S., Malaka, R., Hecht, B., and Schöning, J. Pharos: Improving Navigation Instructions on Smartwatches by Including Global Landmarks. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2017). New York : ACM Press. PDF of Paper
ACM TOCHI: Thebault-Spieker, J., Terveen, L., and Hecht, B. (2017) Towards a Geographic Understanding of the Sharing Economy: Systemic Biases in UberX and TaskRabbit. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). 24 (3). New York, NY : ACM Press. Preprint PDF | Code
ACM CHI: Johnson, I., McMahon, C., Schöning, J., and Hecht, B. (2017) The Effect of Population and "Structural" Biases on Social Media-based Algorithms – A Case Study in Geolocation Inference Across the Urban-Rural Spectrum. Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017). New York: ACM Press. PDF of Paper
ACM CHI: Lin, A.Y., Kuehl, K., Schöning, J., and Hecht, B. (2017) Understanding “Death by GPS”: A Systematic Analysis of Catastrophic Incidents Associated with Personal Navigation Technologies. Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017). New York: ACM Press. PDF of Paper | Dataset
ACM CHI: Colley, A.*, Thebault-Spieker, J.*, Lin, A.Y.*, Häkkilä, J., Nunes, N., Wenig, D., Kuehl, K., Fischman, B., Nisi, V., Runge, N., Degraen, D., Hecht, B.**, Schöning, J**. (2017). The Geography of Pokémon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement. Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017). New York: ACM Press. *Indicates co-First Authors, **Indicates co-Principal Investigators PDF of Paper | Dataset
ACM CHI: Hall, A., Roberts, S., Thebault-Spieker, J., Lin, Y., Sen, S., Hecht, B., and Terveen, L. (2017) Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer Production Community Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017). New York: ACM Press. PDF of Paper
ACM IUI: Sen, S., Swoap, A., Li, Q., Jackson, B., Boatman, B., Dippenaar, J., Gold, R., Ngo, M., Pujol, S., and Hecht, B. (2017) Cartograph: Unlocking Spatial Visualization Through Semantic Enhancement. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017). New York: ACM Press.
ACM CSCW: Lin, Y., Yu, B., Hall, A., and Hecht, B. (2017) Problematizing and Addressing the Article-as-Concept Assumption in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2017). New York: ACM Press. PDF of Paper | Datasets | Code
AAAI ICWSM: Miller, H., Thebault-Spieker, J., Chang, S., Johnson, I., Terveen, L., and Hecht, B. (2016) “Blissfully happy” or “ready to fight”: Varying Interpretations of Emoji. Proceedings of ICWSM 2016. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. PDF of Paper | Blog Post | Datasets
ACM CHI: Johnson, I., Lin, Y., Li, T., Hall, A., Halfaker, A., Schöning, J., and Hecht, B. (2016) Not at Home on the Range: Peer Production and the Urban/Rural Divide. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016) . New York: ACM Press PDF of Paper | Datasets | Slides
ACM CHI: Johnson, I., Sengupta, S., Schöning, J., and Hecht, B. (2016) The Geography and Importance of Localness in Geotagged Social Media. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016). New York: ACM Press. PDF of Paper | Code | Slides | Maps and Demo
ACM CHI: Soll, M., Naumann, P., Schöning, J., Samsonov, P., and Hecht, B. (2016). Helping Computers Understand Geographically-Bound Activity Restrictions. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016). Short paper. New York: ACM Press. New York: ACM Press. PDF of Paper
ACM MobileHCI: Wenig, D., Schöning, J., Steenbergen, A., Hecht, B., and Malaka, R. (2016). ScrollingHome: Bringing Image-based Indoor Navigation to Smartwatches. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2016). Short paper. New York: ACM Press. PDF of Paper
IJCAI: Sen, S., Johnson, I., Harper, R., Mai, H., Olsen, S., Mathers, B., Vonessen, L., Wright, M., and Hecht, B. Towards Domain-Specific SR: A Case Study from Geography. Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI ’15). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. PDF of Paper | GeoSR Dataset
ACM MobileHCI: Wenig, D., Schöning, J., Hecht, B., and Malaka, R. StripeMaps: Improving Map-based Pedestrian Navigation for Smartwatches. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2015). New York: ACM Press.
* Best Paper Award (Top 1% of Submissions)
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AAAI ICWSM: Warncke-Wang, M., Ranjan, V. Terveen, L., and Hecht, B. Misalignment Between Supply and Demand of Quality Content in Peer Production Communities. Proceedings of ICWSM 2015. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. PDF of Paper
ACM CHI: Sen, S., Ford, H., Musicant, D., Graham, M., Keyes, O., and Hecht, B. 2015. Barriers to the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information. Proceedings of CHI 2015. New York: ACM Press.
PDF of Paper | Geoprovenance Algorithm Code | Geoprovenance Evaluation Dataset | NEW: Interactive Version of Paper!
* Honorable Mention (Top 5% of Submissions)
ACM CHI: Samsonov, P., Tang, X., Schöning, J., Kuhn, W., and Hecht, B. 2015. You Can't Smoke Here: Towards Support for Space Usage Rules in Location-aware Technologies. Proceedings of CHI 2015. New York: ACM Press. PDF of Paper
ACM CSCW: Sen, S., Lesicko, M., Giesel, M., Gold, R., Hillman, B., Naden, S., Russell, J., Wang, Z., and Hecht, B. 2015. Turkers, Scholars, "Arafat" and "Peace": Cultural Communities and Algorithmic Gold Standards. Proceedings of CSCW 2015. New York: ACM Press.
* Best Paper Award (Top 1% of Submissions)
PDF of Paper | PluraSR200 Dataset | Semantic Relatedness Library
ACM CSCW: Thebault-Spieker, J., Terveen, L., and Hecht, B. 2015. Avoiding the South Side and the Suburbs: The Geography of Mobile Crowdsourcing Markets. Proceedings of CSCW 2015. New York: ACM Press. PDF of Paper
ACM CSCW: Warncke-Wang, M., Ayukaev, V., Hecht, B., and Terveen, L. 2015. The Success and Failure of Quality Improvement Projects in Peer Production Communities. Proceedings of CSCW 2015. New York: ACM Press. PDF of Paper
ACM SIGSPATIAL: Stockx, T., Hecht, B., and Schöning, J. 2014. SubwayPS: Towards Enabling Smartphone Positioning in Underground Public Transportation Systems. Proceedings of ACM SIGSPATIAL 2014. New York: ACM Press. PDF of Paper
ACM GROUP: Wang, T., Harper, F. M., Hecht, B. 2014. Designing Better Location Fields in User Profiles. Proceedings of GROUP 2014. New York: ACM Press. PDF of Paper
AAAI ICWSM: Hecht, B., Stephens, M. 2014. A Tale of Cities: Urban Biases in Volunteered Geographic Information. Proceedings of ICWSM 2014. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. PDF of Paper | Blog Post
WikiSym: Sen, S., Li, T., Hecht, B. 2014. WikiBrain: Democratizing computation on Wikipedia. Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym / WikiSym 2014). New York: ACM Press. PDF of Paper | API Website
ACM DIS: Schöning, J., Hecht, B., Kuhn, W. 2014. Informing Online and Mobile Map Design with the Collective Wisdom of Cartographers. Proceedings of DIS 2014. New York: ACM Press. PDF of Paper
ACM CHI: Gao, T., Hullman, J., Adar, E., Hecht, B., Diakopolous, N. 2014. NewsViews: An Automated Pipeline for Creating Custom Geovisualizations for News. Proceedings of CHI 2014. New York: ACM Press.
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ACM CSCW: Oeldorf-Hirsch, A., Hecht, B., Morris, M., Teevan, J., Gergle, D. 2014. To Search or to Ask: The Routing of Information Needs Between Traditional Search Engines and Social Networks. Proceedings of CSCW 2014. New York: ACM Press.
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ACM SIGIR: Hecht, B., Carton, S., Quaderi, M., Schöning, J., Raubal, M., Gergle, D., Downey, D. 2012. Explanatory Semantic Relatedness and Explicit Spatialization for Exploratory Search. Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2012. New York: ACM Press.
PDF of Paper | Semantic Relatedness Dataset
ACM CHI: Bao, P., Hecht, B., Carton, S., Quaderi, M., Horn, M. and Gergle, D. 2012. Omnipedia: Bridging the Wikipedia Language Gap. Proceedings of CHI 2012. New York: ACM Press.
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AAAI ICWSM: Hecht, B., Teevan, J., Morris, M., Liebling, D. 2012. SearchBuddies: Bringing Search Engines into the Conversation. Proceedings of ICWSM 2012. Selected for oral presentation. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.
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ACM CHI: Hecht, B., Hong, L., Suh, B. and Chi, E.H. 2011. Tweets from Justin Bieber’s Heart: The Dynamics of the “Location” Field in User Profiles. Proceedings of CHI 2011, pp. 237-246. New York: ACM Press.
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ACM MobileHCI: Böhmer, M., Hecht, B., Schöning, J., Krüger, A. and Bauer, G. 2011. Falling Asleep with Angry Birds, Facebook and Kindle – A Large Scale Study on Mobile Application Usage. Proceedings of MobileHCI 2011, pp. 47-56. New York: ACM Press.
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ACM CHI: Hecht, B. and Gergle, D. 2010. The Tower of Babel Meets Web 2.0: User-Generated Content and Its Applications in a Multilingual Context. Proceedings of CHI 2010, pp. 291–300. New York: ACM Press.
* Best Paper Award (Top 1% of Submissions)
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ACM CSCW: Hecht, B. and Gergle, D. 2010. On The “Localness” of User-Generated Content. Proceedings of CSCW 2010, pp. 229-232 (short paper). New York: ACM Press.
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COSIT: Hecht, B. and Moxley, E. 2009. Terabytes of Tobler: Evaluating the First Law of Geography in a Massive, Domain-Neutral Representation of World Knowledge. Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Spatial Information Theory , pp. 88-105. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
* Best Presentation Award (Given to 2 of 30 Accepted Papers)
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ACM C&T: Hecht, B. and Gergle, D. 2009. Measuring Self-Focus Bias in Community-Maintained Knowledge Repositories. Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Communities and Technologies , pp. 11-19. New York: ACM Press.
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ACM IUI: Schöning, J., Hecht, B., Raubal, M., Krüger, A., Marsh, M. and Rohs, M. 2008. Improving Interaction with Virtual Globes through Spatial Thinking: Helping Users Ask “Why?” Proceedings of IUI 2008, pp. 129-138. New York: ACM Press.
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AGILE: Hecht, B. and Raubal, M. 2008. GeoSR: Geographically explore semantic relations in world knowledge. Proceedings of the 2008 AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, pp. 95-114. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
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AAAI Fall Symposium: Hecht, B., Starosielski, N. and Dara-Abrams, D. 2007. Generating Educational Tourism Narratives from Wikipedia. Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence 2007 Fall Symposium on Intelligent Narrative Technologies, pp. 37-44. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.
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Ph.D. Thesis: Hecht, B. The Mining and Application of Diverse Cultural Perspectives in User-Generated Content. Northwestern University. 2013.
* Best Dissertation Award (Northwestern University Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
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Masters Thesis: Hecht, B. Utilizing Wikipedia as a Spatiotemporal Knowledge Repository. UC Santa Barbara. 2007.
Thesis PDF
Microsoft: Teevan, J., Hecht, B., and Jaffe, S. eds. The New Future of Work: Research from Microsoft on the Impact of the Pandemic on Work Practices. 1st ed. Microsoft, 2021. Full PDF
Communications of the ACM: Barocas, B., Biega, A.J., Boyarskaya, M., Crawford, K., Daumé, H., Dudík, M., Fish, B., Gray, M.L, Hecht, B., Olteanu, A., Poursabzi-Sangdeh, F., Stark, L., Wortman Vaughan, J., Wallach, H. and Zepf, M. 2021. Responsible computing during COVID-19 and beyond. Communications of the ACM 64, 7: 30–32. Article HTML | Article PDF
ACM Negative Impacts Statement: Hecht, B., Wilcox, L., Bigham, J.P., Schöning, J., Hoque, E., Ernst, J., Bisk, Y., De Russis, L., Yarosh, L., Anjum, B., Contractor, D. and Wu, C. 2018. It’s Time to Do Something: Mitigating the Negative Impacts of Computing Through a Change to the Peer Review Process. ACM Future of Computing Blog.HCI Research Agenda: Hecht, B. HCI and the U.S. Presidential Election: A Few Thoughts on a Research Agenda
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ACM CHI: Hecht, B., Schöning, J., Haklay, M., Capra, L., Mashhadi, A.J., Terveen, L., and Kwan, M. 2013 Workshop on Geographic Human-Computer Interaction (GeoHCI 2013). Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems..
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ACM CSCW: Ackerman, M., Adamic, L., Ellison, N., Gergle, D., Hecht, B., Lampe, C., Morris, M.R., Teevan, J. 2013 Workshop on Social Media Question Asking. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2013).
Proposal PDF | Workshop Website | Workshop Proceedings
ACM CHI: Hecht, B., Schöning, J., Erickson, T. and Priedhorsky, R. Special Interest Group on Geographic Human-Computer Interaction. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011), pp. 447–450. New York: ACM Press.
Proposal PDF
GIScience: Schöning, J., Hecht, B., Krüger, A., Raubal, M., Rohs, M. Trends in Pervasive and Ubiquitous Geotechnology and Geoinformation (TIPUGG 2008). Proceedings of the International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2008).
Proposal PDF | Workshop Proceedings
ACM CHI 2017: Hecht, B., Hearst, M., Shneiderman, B., Hourcade, J.P., Starbird, K., Golbeck, J., and Terveen, L. HCI and the 2016 U.S. Campaign: Towards a Research Agenda (Panel). Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2017). New York: ACM Press. PDF of Abstract | My Slides
Collective Intelligence: Hecht, B. and Terveen, L. The Role of Human Geography in Collective Intelligence. Collective Intelligence 2017 (CI 2017). New York, NY. PDF of Paper
ACM Spring Symposium: Johnson, I. and Hecht, B. Structural Causes of Bias in Crowd-derived Geographic Information: Towards a Holistic Understanding. Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence 2016 Spring Symposium on Observational Studies through Social Media and Other Human-Generated Content. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. PDF of Paper | Slides (from Isaac Johnson)
ACM SIGSPATIAL: Li, T., Sen, S., and Hecht, B. 2014. Leveraging Advances in Natural Language Processing to Better Understand Tobler’s First Law of Geography. Extended Proceedings of ACM SIGSPATIAL 2014. New York: ACM Press. PDF of Paper
GIScience: Hecht, B. and Schöning, J. 2008. Mapping the Zeitgeist. Extended Abstracts of the International Conference on Geographic Information Science. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
* Best Extended Abstract Award
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ACM CHI: Schöning, J., Hecht, B. and Starosielski, N. 2007. Evaluating automatically generated location-based stories for tourists. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 2937–2942. New York: ACM Press. PDF of Paper
ACM Ubicomp: Schöning, J., Hecht, B., Rohs, M. and Starosielski, N. 2007. WikEar - Automatically Generated Location-Based Audio Stories Between Public City Map. Extended Abstracts of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. New York: ACM Press. PDF of Paper
ACM Pervasive: Rohs, M., Schöning, J., Krüger, A. and Hecht, B. 2007. Towards real-time markerless tracking of magic lenses on paper maps. Adjunct Proceedings of the Conference on Pervasive Computing, Late Breaking Results, pp. 69-72. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. PDF of Paper
PERMID: Hecht, B., Rohs, M., Schöning, J. and Krüger, A. 2007. Using Magic Lenses to Explore Georeferenced Wikipedia Content. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices in conjunction with Pervasive 2007. PDF of Paper
MIT Press: Hecht, B. and Gergle, D. How we learned to stop worrying (or worry less) and love the diverse challenges of our fast-moving, geographically-flavored interdisciplinary research area. 2012. Digital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online. E. Hargittai and C. Sandvig, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
IGI Global: Hecht, B. and Gergle, D. A Beginner’s Guide to Geographic Virtual Communities Research. 2011. Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities: Paradigms and Phenomena. pp. 333-347. IGI Global. Preprint PDF
Harvard Business Review: Teevan, J. and Hecht, B. To Work Well with GenAI, You Need to Learn How to Talk to It. Harvard Business Review. Read Article
Harvard Business Review: Teevan, J., Jaffe, S., and Hecht, B. Let’s Redefine “Productivity” for the Hybrid Era. Harvard Business Review. Read Article
American Snowmobiler Magazine: Hecht, B. Iron Range Map. “Home on the Range”. American Snowmobiler Magazine, 27(3), December 2012.
Specialist Meeting on Spatio-Temporal Constraints on Social Networks: Position Statement on Spatio-Temporal Constraints on Social Networks. NSF and Army Research Office Specialist Meeting on Spatio-Temporal Constraints on Social Networks. Santa Barbara, CA. 2010.
Encyclopedia of Geography: Data Indexing. Encyclopedia of Geography. SAGE Publications. 2010.
Specialist Meeting on Volunteered Geographic Information: Wikipedia Volunteered Geographic Information. NSF and Army Research Office Specialist Meeting on Volunteered Geographic Information. Santa Barbara, CA. 2007.
ESRI Press: Popularity of Christian Contemporary Music in the United States. Understanding Place: GIS and Mapping Across the Curriculum. D.S. Sinton and J.J. Lund, eds. pp. 264-265. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.