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Faculty Candidate Talk:
"Combining Minds: Harnessing Social Collaboration for Sensemaking" |
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1:00 PM-2:00 PM
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Wed, January 28, 2009 |
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1202 SI North (in person)
Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall (videocast) |
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Speakers: |
Aniket Kittur |
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Description: |
Aniket Kittur is a postdoctoral fellow in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and a visiting researcher at the Palo Alto Research Center. He received his doctorate in cognitive psychology from UCLA. His research focuses on understanding the dynamics of distributed cognition systems for making sense of overwhelming amounts of information and building tools to improve their effectiveness. Kittur has consulted in information design and engineering for more than 20 companies, ranging from Internet startups to the Fortune 500. In this talk, he will discuss how human cognition, while unparalleled at discovering patterns and linking seemingly disparate concepts, is also limited in the amount of information it can process at once. He will elaborate on such promising solutions to this problem as large-scale social collaboration, in which groups of individuals collaborate to produce knowledge and solve problems that exceed a single individual's cognitive
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All are invited to attend. To promote in-depth intellectual engagement during the seminar, all are encouraged to read Kittur's paper in advance .
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Sponsor: |
School of Information |
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Contact: |
JoAnne Kerr |
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jmkerr@umich.edu |
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