Author: Aniket Kittur
I am currently an assistant professor in HCI at Carnegie Mellon. My research focuses on understanding and improving distributed and individual cognition.
My research on distributed cognition examines how groups of people can collaborate to process information on a scale that exceeds individual cognitive capabilities. For example, I am investigating how large social collaborative knowledge systems such as Wikipedia and del.icio.us function and can be made more effective. I am also a collaborator on the Cognitive Atlas project, whose goal is to build a knowledge base of mental processes, tasks, and brain systems using principles of distributed cognition.
My research in cognitive psychology seeks to understand cognitive processes in the individual which underlie categorization and memory by combining empirical studies with computational and statistical modeling. I am also involved in developing interfaces which improve the efficiency of storing and retrieving knowledge and support visualization and interaction with large knowledge spaces.
Before entering graduate school I spent four years in internet consulting, first as a senior programmer and then as a senior information architect. I continue to consult for Fortune 500 companies with difficult information and interaction problems. In addition I do freelance graphic design, especially focusing on logo design. I am also an avid photographer.
Publications
Co-authors
- Bongwon Suh
- Ed H. Chi
- Robert E. Kraut
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Productive Colleagues
- Sara Kiesler
- John Riedl
- Robert E. Kraut
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Publications
Kittur, Aniket, Suh, Bongwon, Pendleton, Bryan A., Chi, Ed H. (2007): He says, she says: conflict and coordination in Wikipedia. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2007, . pp. 453-462. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1240624.1240698
Kittur, Aniket, Chi, Ed H., Suh, Bongwon (2008): Crowdsourcing user studies with Mechanical Turk. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008, . pp. 453-456. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1357054.1357127
Suh, Bongwon, Chi, Ed H., Kittur, Aniket, Pendleton, Bryan A. (2008): Lifting the veil: improving accountability and social transparency in Wikipedia with wikid. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008, . pp. 1037-1040. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1357054.1357214
Kittur, Aniket, Kraut, Robert E. (2008): Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia: quality through coordination. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW08 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work , 2008, . pp. 37-46. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1460563.1460572
Kittur, Aniket, Suh, Bongwon, Chi, Ed H. (2008): Can you ever trust a wiki?: impacting perceived trustworthiness in wikipedia. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW08 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work , 2008, . pp. 477-480. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1460563.1460639
Kittur, Aniket, Lee, Bryant, Kraut, Robert E. (2009): Coordination in collective intelligence: the role of team structure and task interdependen. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 1495-1504. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1518701.1518928
Kittur, Aniket, Chi, Ed H., Suh, Bongwon (2009): What\'s in Wikipedia?: mapping topics and conflict using socially annotated category struc. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 1509-1512. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1518701.1518930
Chau, Duen Horng, Kittur, Aniket, Faloutsos, Christos, Hong, Jason I. (2009): SHIFTR: a user-directed, link-based system for ad hoc sensemaking of large heterogeneous d. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 3535-3536. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1520340.1520529
Cranshaw, Justin, Toch, Eran, Hong, Jason, Kittur, Aniket, Sadeh, Norman (2010): Bridging the gap between physical location and online social networks. In: Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Uniquitous Computing , 2010, . pp. 119-128. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1864349.1864380
Kittur, Aniket, Kraut, Robert E. (2010): Beyond Wikipedia: coordination and conflict in online production groups. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW10 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work , 2010, . pp. 215-224. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1718918.1718959
Balakrishnan, Aruna D., Fussell, Susan R., Kiesler, Sara, Kittur, Aniket (2010): Pitfalls of information access with visualizations in remote collaborative analysis. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW10 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work , 2010, . pp. 411-420. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1718918.1718988
Kittur, Aniket, Pendleton, Bryan, Kraut, Robert E. (2009): Herding the cats: the influence of groups in coordinating peer production. In: Proceedings of the 2009 International Symposium on Wikis , 2009, . pp. 7. https://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/procfiles/p107-kittur.pdf
Halfaker, Aaron, Kittur, Aniket, Kraut, Robert E., Riedl, John (2009): A jury of your peers: quality, experience and ownership in Wikipedia. In: Proceedings of the 2009 International Symposium on Wikis , 2009, . pp. 15. https://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/procfiles/p115-halfaker.pdf
Chau, Duen Horng, Kittur, Aniket, Hong, Jason I., Faloutsos, Christos (2011): Apolo: making sense of large network data by combining rich user interaction and machine l. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2011, . pp. 167-176. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1978967
Cranshaw, Justin, Kittur, Aniket (2011): The polymath project: lessons from a successful online collaboration in mathematics. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2011, . pp. 1865-1874. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979213
Zhu, Haiyi, Kraut, Robert E., Wang, Yi-Chia, Kittur, Aniket (2011): Identifying shared leadership in Wikipedia. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2011, . pp. 3431-3434. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979453
Bernstein, Michael, Chilton, Lydia, Hartmann, Bjorn, Kittur, Aniket, Miller, Robert C. (2011): Crowdsourcing and human computation: systems, studies and platforms. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2011, . pp. 53-56. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979593
Kittur, Aniket, Smus, Boris, Kraut, Robert E. (2011): CrowdForge: crowdsourcing complex work. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2011, . pp. 1801-1806. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979902
Zhu, Haiyi, Kraut, Robert E., Kittur, Aniket (2012): Effectiveness of shared leadership in online communities. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW12 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work , 2012, . pp. 407-416. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2145204.2145269
Rzeszotarski, Jeffrey, Kittur, Aniket (2012): Learning from history: predicting reverted work at the word level in wikipedia. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW12 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work , 2012, . pp. 437-440. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2145204.2145272
Zhu, Haiyi, Kraut, Robert E., Kittur, Aniket (2012): Organizing without formal organization: group identification, goal setting and social mode. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW12 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work , 2012, . pp. 935-944. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2145204.2145344
Kittur, Aniket, Khamkar, Susheel, André, Paul, Kraut, Robert E. (2012): CrowdWeaver: visually managing complex crowd work. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW12 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work , 2012, . pp. 1033-1036. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2145204.2145357
Halfaker, Aaron, Song, Bryan, Stuart, D. Alex, Kittur, Aniket, Riedl, John (2011): NICE: social translucence through UI intervention. In: Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration , 2011, . pp. 101-104. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2038558.2038575
Halfaker, Aaron, Kittur, Aniket, Riedl, John (2011): Don't bite the newbies: how reverts affect the quantity and quality of Wikipedia work. In: Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration , 2011, . pp. 163-172. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2038558.2038585
Rzeszotarski, Jeffrey M., Kittur, Aniket (2011): Instrumenting the crowd: using implicit behavioral measures to predict task performance. In: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology , 2011, . pp. 13-22. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2047196.2047199
Kittur, Aniket, Smus, Boris, Khamkar, Susheel, Kraut, Robert E. (2011): CrowdForge: crowdsourcing complex work. In: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology , 2011, . pp. 43-52. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2047196.2047202
Rzeszotarski, Jeffrey, Kittur, Aniket (2012): CrowdScape: interactively visualizing user behavior and output. In: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology , 2012, . pp. 55-62. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2380116.2380125