Author: Kurt Luther
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Invited talk on photo sleuthing at Civil War Weekend
Dr. Luther gave an invited talk on historical photo sleuthing at Virginia Tech’s 25th Annual Civil War Weekend. His presentation was featured in a press release from Virginia Tech News.
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Incite workshop at 2016 Virginia Forum
Dr. Luther, with his collaborators Dr. Paul Quigley and Dr. David Hicks, led a workshop, titled “Crowdsourcing the History of American Independence Day in Civil War-Era Virginia,” at the 2016 Virginia Forum in Jamestown, Virginia. The workshop included a demo of our Incite software and the Mapping the Fourth of July website.
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Serving on HCOMP 2016 Program Committee
Dr. Luther accepted an invitation to serve on the Program Committee for HCOMP 2016, the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, to be held in Austin, Texas.
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Presented paper on crowdsourced design critique and expertise at CSCW 2016
Dr. Luther presented the paper, Almost an Expert: The Effects of Rubrics and Expertise on Perceived Value of Crowdsourced Design Critiques, in the “Crowd-Powered Applications” session at CSCW 2016 in San Francisco, CA. This was a collaborative effort with Alvin Yuan, Markus Krause, and Bjoern Hartmann (UC Berkeley); and Sophie Vennix and Steven Dow (Carnegie Mellon). This…
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CrowdCrit research cited in Science
A recent article in Science cited our CrowdCrit system as an example of “the power of crowds.”