In technical cooperation with the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society

ABSTRACT

Social computing has emerged as a broad area of research in HCI and CSCW, encompassing systems that gather, store, process, re-present, and disseminate social information that is distributed across social collectivities such as teams, communities, organizations, cohorts, populations, and markets. Social computing systems are likely to contain components that support and make visible social features such as identity, reputation, trust, accountability, presence, social roles, expertise, knowledge, and ownership. We see social computing transforming the net by creating a pervasive technical infrastructure that includes people, organizations, and their activities as fundamental system components, and enabling identity, behavior, social relationships, and experience to be used as resources for activity. In this talk, I selectively review emerging applications and trends in social computing, and discuss current research in our group and beyond that is driving and is driven by the emerging vision of social computing.

BIOGRAPHY

Wendy A. Kellogg is Manager of Social Computing¹ at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center. Her current work involves designing and evaluating novel computer-mediated collaboration systems for supporting work in organizations. Wendy's work in human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) over the last two decades has spanned theory, methodology, design, and development. She holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Oregon. She is author and editor of publications in the fields of HCI and CSCW, and is currently serving on the editorial board of ACM's Queue magazine². Wendy has served in a variety of professional and advisory positions, including co-chairing CHI³ (1994), CSCW⁴ (2000), and the DIS⁵ technical program (2000). Currently, Wendy is serving as technical papers co-chair for CHI 2005⁶ and as a member of the National Academies of Science Computer Science and Telecommunications Board⁷. She is a member of IEEE⁸ and ACM⁹ and was elected ACM Fellow¹⁰ in 2002.

REFERENCES

[1] Social Computing: http://www.research.ibm.com/SocialComputing/

[2] ACM's Queue: http://www.acmqueue.org/

[3] CHI: http://www.acm.org/sigchi/

[4] CSCW: http://www.acm.org/cscw2004/

[5] DIS: http://www.sigchi.org/DIS2004/mid.php

[6] CHI 2005: http://www.acm.org/chi2005

[7] Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/

[8] IEEE: http://www.ieee.org/portal/site

[9] ACM: http://www.acm.org/

[10] ACM Fellow: http://www.acm.org/awards/fellows/

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