Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities

Editing Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities is an EAGER (Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project. The project aims to explore personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, the project will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. In the course of the project we implemented and explored Conference Navigator 3.

PI: Associate Professor Peter Brusilovsky.

co-PI: Assistant Professor Jung Sun Oh.

Team:

- Chirayu Wongchokprasitti: Research on recommendations, main developer of the two first version of CN and developer of the current version.

- Sherry Sahebi: Research on recommendations, and Database developer.

- Shaopeng Zhang: Developer and designer of the first version of Web interface.

- Yijin Wu: Developer of Android application.

- Ranjani Rajagopal: Developer and designer of Android and iPhone application.

- Denis Parra: Researcher on recommendations and adaptive visualization, developer of the second versuion of Web interface

- Steve Van Tuyl: Researcher on social networks.

- Claudia Lopez: Researcher on incentive-based design.

- Xidao Wen: Researcher on Social technologies and log analysis