Papers and Projects

Publications:

Conference Papers:

[1] Kairam, S., Brzozowski, M., Huffaker, D., and Chi, E.H. (2012): Talking in Circles: Selective Sharing in Google+. [To Appear] Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’12). (Draft PDF)

[2] Kairam, S., Wang, D., Leskovec, J. (2012): The Life and Death of Online Groups: Predicting Group Growth and Longevity. [To Appear] Proc. ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2012). 21% acceptance rate. (Draft PDF)

[3] Bernstein, M.S., Suh, B, Hong, L., Chen, J., Kairam, S., and Chi, E.H. (2010): Eddi: Interactive Topic-Based Browsing of Social Status Streams. Proc. ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’10), ACM Press, pp. 303-312. 18% Acceptance Rate. (PDF) (MP4 Demo)

[4] Convertino, G., Kairam, S., Hong, L., Suh, B., and Chi, E.H. (2010): Designing a Cross-Channel Information Management Tool for Workers in Enterprise Task Forces. Proc. Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI ’10), ACM Press, pp. 103-110. 20% Acceptance Rate. (PDF)

[5] Hong, L., Convertino, G., Suh, B., Chi, E.H., and Kairam, S. (2010): FeedWinnower: Layering Structures Over Collections of Information Streams. Proc. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’10), ACM Press, pp. 947-950. 22% Acceptance Rate. (PDF)

Posters and Demonstrations:

[1] Evans, B.M., Kairam, S., and Pirolli, P. (2009): Exploring the Cognitive Consequences of Social Search.  In Proc. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘09), ACM Press, pp. 3377-3382. (2^nd Place in CHI Student Research Competition). (PDF)

Journal Articles:

[1] Pirolli, P. and Kairam, S. (2012): A Knowledge Tracing Model of Learning from a Social Tagging System. [To Appear] Journal of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI), Special issue on Personalization in Social Web Systems.

[2] Evans, B.M., Kairam, S., and Pirolli, P. (2010): Do Your Friends Make You Smarter?: An Analysis of Social Strategies in Online Information Seeking. Information Processing and Management, 46(6) Nov., pp. 679-692. (Draft PDF)

Workshop Papers:

[1] Bernstein, M., Kairam, S., Suh, B., Hong, L., and Chi, E.H. A Torrent of Tweets: Managing Information Overload in Online Social Streams. CHI 2010 Workshop on Microblogging: What and How Can We Learn From It? Atlanta, GA. April 2010. (PDF)

[2] 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.

[3] 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.

Other Projects:

MedHelp Community Explorer: A simple interactive data visualization project done for CS 448B in conjunction with Diana MacLean. (2010)

Mobilizer: A demo for a prototype of an iPhone application that I pitched to Y Combinator with Manu Lakkur. (2008)