Papers and Projects

Publications:

Bernstein, M., Suh, B., Hong, L., Chen, J., Kairam, S., and Chi, E.H. Eddi: Interactive Topic-based Browsing of Social Status Streams. [Submitted to] Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM ‘10), AAAI Press, 2010.

Convertino, G., Kairam, S., Hong, L., Suh, B., and Chi, E. Designing a Cross-Channel Information Management Tool for Workers in Enterprise Task Forces. [To Appear] in Proceedings of the Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI ’10), ACM Press, 2010.

Hong, L., Convertino, G., Suh, B., Chi, E., and Kairam, S. FeedWinnower: Layering Structures Over Collections of Information Streams. [To Appear] in Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘10), ACM Press, 2010

Evans, B.M., Kairam, S., and Pirolli, P. Do Your Friends Make You Smarter?: An Analysis of Social Strategies in Online Information Seeking.  [To Appear] in Information Processing & Management special issue on Collaborative Information Seeking, 2010. Draft available here.

Evans, B.M., Kairam, S., and Pirolli, P.  Exploring the Cognitive Consequences of Social Search.  In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘09), ACM Press, 2009. (2^nd Place in CHI Student Research Competition). Available here.

Workshop Papers:

Pirolli, P., Kairam, S., Convertino, G., and Nelson, L. Modeling Individual and Cognitive Cognition in Social Systems Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation. [Submitted to] Workshop on Cognitive Models of Social Information Systems at the 2010 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘10), Atlanta, GA. April 2010.

Bernstein, M., Kairam, S., Suh, B., Hong, L., and Chi, E.H. A Torrent of Tweets: Managing Information Overload in Online Social Streams. [To Appear] in Workshop on Microblogging at the 2010 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘10), Atlanta, GA. April 2010.

Convertino, G., Kairam, S., Chi, E., Grasso, A., Pirolli, P., Stricker, T., Bascaran, E. Designing for Learning Communities in a Large Enterprise. Presented at the Workshop on Collective Intelligence at the 2010 ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW ‘10), Savannah, GA. February 2010.

Convertino, G., Stricker, T., Kairam, S., et al. Learning Communities in a Large Enterprise. Presented at the 3^rd International Workshop on Building Technology Enhanced Learning Solutions for Communities of Practice (TEL-CoPs ‘09), Nice, France.  September 2009.

Projects:

Mobilizer: A demo for a prototype of an iPhone application that I pitched to Y Combinator last year.