Conferences and Journals

2024

Yaxuan Yin, Longjie Guo, and Jacob Thebault-Spieker 2024. Productivity or Equity? Tradeoffs in Volunteer Microtasking in Humanitarian OpenStreetMap. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW1. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1145/3637390

Zihan Gao and Jacob Thebault-Spieker 2024. Investigating Users’ Responses to Permanent Suspension on Social Media. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW1. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1145/3637356

Jean Hardy and Jacob Thebault-Spieker 2024. A Turn to Assets in Community-Based Computing Research: Tradeoffs, Deficits, and Neoliberalism in Technological Development. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW1. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1145/3637291

2023

Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Naomi Mine, and Kurt Luther 2023. Diverse Perspectives Can Mitigate Political Bias in Crowdsourced Content Moderation. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’23), 1280–1291. https://doi.org/10.1145/3593013.3594080

2021

Molly G. Hickman, Viral Pasad, Harsh Kamalesh Sanghavi, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, and Sang Won Lee 2021. Understanding Wikipedia Practices Through Hindi, Urdu, and English Takes on an Evolving Regional Conflict. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW1. https://doi.org/10.1145/3449108

2019

Sukrit Venkatagiri, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Rachel Kohler, John Purivance, Rifat Sabbir Mansur, and Kurt Luther 2019. GroundTruth: Augmenting Expert Image Geolocation with Crowdsourcing and Shared Representations. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 3, CSCW.

2018

Andrew Hall, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Shilad Sen, Brent Hecht, and Loren Terveen 2018. Exploring the Relationship Between "Informal Standards" and Contributor Practice in OpenStreetMap. In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym ’18), 10:1–10:11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3233391.3233962

Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Aaron Halfaker, Loren G. Terveen, and Brent Hecht 2018. Distance and Attraction: Gravity Models for Geographic Content Production. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18), 148:1–148:13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173722

Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Brent Hecht, and Loren Terveen 2018. Geographic Biases Are ’Born, Not Made’: Exploring Contributors’ Spatiotemporal Behavior in OpenStreetMap. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork (GROUP ’18), 71–82. https://doi.org/10.1145/3148330.3148350

Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Daniel Kluver, Maximilian A. Klein, Aaron Halfaker, Brent Hecht, Loren Terveen, and Joseph A. Konstan 2017. Simulation Experiments on (the Absence of) Ratings Bias in Reputation Systems. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 1, CSCW: 101:1–101:25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3134736

S. Andrew Sheppard, Julian Turner, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Haiyi Zhu, and Loren Terveen 2017. Never Too Old, Cold or Dry to Watch the Sky: A Survival Analysis of Citizen Science Volunteerism. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 1, CSCW: 94:1–94:21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3134729

2017

Hannah Miller, Daniel Kluver, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Loren Terveen, and Brent Hecht 2017. Understanding Emoji Ambiguity in Context: The Role of Text in Emoji-Related Miscommunication. In Eleventh International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM ’17).

Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Loren Terveen, and Brent Hecht 2017. Toward a Geographic Understanding of the Sharing Economy: Systemic Biases in UberX and TaskRabbit. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 24, 3: 21:1–21:40. https://doi.org/10.1145/3058499

Jacob Thebault-Spieker*, Ashley Colley*, Allen Yilun Lin*, Donald Degraen, Benjamin Fischman, Jonna Häkkilä, Kate Kuehl, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Jardim Nunes, Nina Wenig, Dirk Wenig, Brent Hecht**, and Johannes Schöning** 2017. The Geography of Pokémon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17), 1179–1192. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025495

  • Note: * - indicates co-First Authors, ** - indicates co-Principal Investigators
  • Acceptance Rate: 25% | Pre-Print | ACM Author-izer

Andrew Hall, Sarah McRoberts, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Yilun Lin, Shilad Sen, Brent Hecht, and Loren Terveen 2017. Freedom Versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer Production Community. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17), 6352–6362. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025940

2016

Hannah Miller, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Shuo Chang, Johnson Isaac, Loren Terveen, and Brent Hecht 2016. "Blissfully Happy" or "Ready to Fight": Varying Interpretations in Emoji. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM ’16).

2015

Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Loren G. Terveen, and Brent Hecht 2015. Avoiding the South Side and the Suburbs: The Geography of Mobile Crowdsourcing Markets. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW ’15), 265–275. https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675278

Aaron Halfaker, Os Keyes, Daniel Kluver, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Tien Nguyen, Kate Grandprey-Shores, Anuradha Uduwage, and Morten Warncke-Wang 2015. User Session Identification Based on Strong Regularities in Inter-Activity Time. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW ’15), 410–418. https://doi.org/10.1145/2736277.2741117


Workshop Papers

2018

Sukrit Venkatagiri, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Aliza Camacho, and Kurt Luther 2018. Localness and Urbanness in Geographic Crowd Work. In (CSCW ’18 Companion).

2015

Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Brent Hecht, and Loren Terveen 2015. Digitally Reflecting Our Space: Crowdsourcing Space Usage Rules. In (Information Technology and City LIfe Workshop - CSCW ’15).


Posters, Demos, and Extended Abstracts

2020

Molly G. Hickman, Viral Pasad, Harsh Sanghavi, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, and Sang Won Lee 2020. Wiki HUEs: Understanding Wikipedia Practices Through Hindi, Urdu, and English Takes on Evolving Regional Conflict. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2020). https://doi.org/10.1145/3392561.3397586

2019

Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Sukrit Venkatagiri, David Mitchell, Chris Hurt, and Kurt Luther 2019. PairWise: Mitigating Political Bias in Crowdsourced Content Moderation. In Human Computation Conference 2019 Work-in-Progress/Demos (HCOMP 2019). (Best Poster/Demo Award, out of 25 submissions)

Sukrit Venkatagiri, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Sarwat Kamzi, Efua Akonor, and Kurt Luther 2019. It’s QuizTime: A Study of Online Verification Practices on Twitter. In Human Computation Conference 2019 Work-in-Progress/Demos (HCOMP 2019).

2018

Sukrit Venkatagiri, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, and Kurt Luther 2018. Verifying Truth from the Ground: Leveraging Human Strengths in the Image Geolocation Process. In Human-Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC 2018).

2016

Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Anbang Xu, Jilin Chen, Jalal Mahmud, and Jeffrey Nichols 2016. Exploring Engagement in a ’Social Crowd’ on Twitter. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion (CSCW ’16 Companion), 417–420. https://doi.org/10.1145/2818052.2869112