2025
Reexamining technological support for genealogy research, collaboration, and education
Fei Shan, Kurt Luther
CSCW 2025 Paper
Ajna: A wearable shared perception system for extreme sensemaking
Matthew Wilchek, Kurt Luther, Feras Batarseh
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
2024
FHIRViz: Multi-agent platform for FHIR visualization to advance healthcare analytics
Mariam ALMutairi, Lulwah AlKulaib, Shengkun Wang, Zhiqian Chen, Youssif ALMutiari, Thamer M. Alenazi, Kurt Luther, Chang-Tien Lu
BCB 2024 Paper
Crowd Compositions for Bias Detection and Mitigation in Predicting Recidivism
Sakshi Mhatre
Virginia Tech Computer Science M.S. Thesis
OSINT Research Studios: A flexible crowdsourcing framework to scale up open source intelligence investigations
Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Kurt Luther
CSCW 2024 Paper
Redistrict: Online Public Deliberation Support that Connects and Rebuilds Inclusive Communities
Andreea Sistrunk, Nathan Self, Subhodip Biswas, Kurt Luther, Nervo Verdezoto, Naren Ramakrishnan
CSCW 2024 Paper
Understanding the Relationship Between Social Identity and Self-Expression Through Animated GIFs on Social Media
Marx Boyuan Wang, Md Momen Bhuiyan, Eugenia Ha Rim Rho, Kurt Luther, Sang Won Lee
CSCW 2024 Paper
KHAIT: K-9 Handler Artificial Intelligence Teaming for collaborative sensemaking
Matthew Wilchek, Linhan Wang, Feras A. Batarseh, Kurt Luther
CHI 2024 Workshop Paper
2023
DoubleCheck: Designing community-based assessability for historical person identification
Vikram Mohanty, Kurt Luther
ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage
Community-driven AI support for genealogy research
Fei Shan, Kurt Luther
CSCW 2023 Workshop Paper
Developing Collaboration and Competition Skills in a Crowd of Student OSINT Investigators
Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Kurt Luther
CSCW 2023 Workshop Paper
Behind the Canvas: A Human-AI Workflow for Tracing 19th-Century Photographers and Studio Backdrops
Vikram Mohanty, Jude Lim, Terryl Dodson, Kurt Luther
HCOMP 2023 Demo Best Poster/Demo Award
Photo Steward: A deliberative collective intelligence workflow for validating historical archives
Vikram Mohanty, Kurt Luther
CI 2023 Paper
BackTrace: A human-AI collaborative approach to discovering studio backdrops in historical photographs
Jude Lim, Vikram Mohanty, Terryl Dodson, Kurt Luther
HCOMP 2023 Paper
CoSINT: Designing a collaborative capture the flag competition to investigate misinformation
Sukrit Venkatagiri, Anirban Mukhopadhyay, David Hicks, Aaron Brantly, Kurt Luther
DIS 2023 Paper
Diverse perspectives can mitigate political bias in crowdsourced content moderation
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Naomi Mine, Kurt Luther
FAccT 2023 Paper
Redistrict: Designing a self-serve interactive boundary optimization system
Andreea Sistrunk, Nathan Self, Subhodip Biswas, Kurt Luther, Nervo Verdezoto, Naren Ramakrishnan
DIS 2023 Demo
Sedition Hunters: A Quantitative Study of the Crowdsourced Investigation into the 2021 U.S. Capitol Attack
Tianjiao Yu, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Ismini Lourentzou, Kurt Luther
WWW 2023 Paper
Human-in-the-loop for computer vision assurance: A survey
Matthew Wilchek, Will Hanley, Jude Lim, Kurt Luther, Feras Batarseh
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Redrawing public school boundaries: An intersection of geography, education policy, and computer science
Andreea Sistrunk, Nathan Self, Subhodip Biswas, James A. Egenrieder, Kurt Luther, Adriana Glenn, Naren Ramakrishnan
ECSCW 2023 Exploratory Paper
Save A Tree or 6 kg of CO2? Understanding Effective Carbon Footprint Interventions for Eco-Friendly Vehicular Choices
Vikram Mohanty, Alexandre Filipowicz, Nayeli Bravo, Rumen Iliev, Scott Carter, David Ayman Shamma
CHI 2023 Paper Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
Designing Human-AI Collaborative Systems for Historical Photo Identification
Vikram Mohanty
Virginia Tech Computer Science Ph.D. Dissertation
Backdrop Explorer: A Human-AI Collaborative Approach for Exploring Studio Backdrops in Civil War Portraits
Jude Lim
Virginia Tech Computer Science M.S. Thesis
Behind the Scenes: Evaluating Computer Vision Embedding Techniques for Discovering Similar Photo Backgrounds
Terryl Dodson
Virginia Tech Computer Science M.S. Thesis
2022
Supporting and Transforming High-Stakes Investigations with Expert-Led Crowdsourcing
Sukrit Venkatagiri
Virginia Tech Computer Science Ph.D. Dissertation
Civil War Twin: Exploring ethical challenges in designing an educational face recognition application
Manisha Kusuma, Vikram Mohanty, Marx Wang, Kurt Luther
AIES 2022 Paper
Pick Your CARbon: User Perceptions of Equivalencies for Carbon Emissions when Selecting Rideshares
Vikram Mohanty, Alexandre Filipowicz, Nayeli Bravo, Rumen Iliev, Scott Carter, David A. Shamma
AutomotiveUI 2022 Poster
Towards designing a flexible expert-led crowdsourcing framework for investigating misinformation
Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Kurt Luther
Syracuse University Combating Misinformation Workshop Paper
Compete, collaborate, investigate: Exploring the social structures of open source intelligence investigations
Yasmine Belghith, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Kurt Luther
CHI 2022 Paper
Towards designing a flexible expert-led crowdsourcing framework for investigating misinformation
Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Kurt Luther
CHI 2022 Workshop Paper
Redistricting Practices in Public Schools: Social Progress or Necessity?
Andreea Sistrunk, Subhodip Biswas, Nathan Self, Kurt Luther, Naren Ramakrishnan
ECSCW 2022 Poster
Flud: A hybrid crowd-algorithm approach for visualizing biological networks
Aditya Bharadwaj, David Gwizdala, Yoonjin Kim, Kurt Luther, T. M. Murali
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
2021
Civil War Twin: Exploring ethical challenges in designing an educational face recognition application
Manisha Kusuma
Virginia Tech Computer Science M.S. Thesis
Sedition Hunters: Countering extremism through collective action
Sukrit Venkatagiri, Vikram Mohanty, Tianjiao Yu, Kurt Luther
CSCW 2021 Workshop Paper
Supporting high-stakes investigations with expert-led crowdsourcing
Sukrit Venkatagiri
HCOMP 2021 Graduate Symposium
Designing human-AI collaborative systems for historical photo identification
Vikram Mohanty
HCOMP 2021 Graduate Symposium
Double-checking history: Designing assessable systems for historical photo identification
Vikram Mohanty, Kurt Luther
HCOMP 2021 Demo
When content decides where you belong: Investigating micro communities on VSCO
Vikram Mohanty, Geneviève Patterson
HCOMP 2021 Poster
SleuthTalk: Identifying historical photos with intelligent shortlists, private collaboration, and structured feedback
Liling Yuan, Vikram Mohanty, Kurt Luther
CSCW 2021 Demo
The social structures of OSINT: Examining collaboration and competition in open source intelligence investigations
Yasmine Belghith
Virginia Tech Computer Science M.S. Thesis
SleuthTalk: Addressing the last-mile problem in historical person identification with privacy, collaboration, and structured feedback
Liling Yuan
Virginia Tech Computer Science M.S. Thesis
CrowdSolve: Managing tensions in an expert-led crowdsourced investigation
Sukrit Venkatagiri, Aakash Gautam, Kurt Luther
CSCW 2021 Paper
The psychological well-being of content moderators: The emotional labor of commercial moderation and avenues for improving support
Miriah Steiger, Timir J. Bharucha, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Martin J. Riedl, Matthew Lease
CHI 2021 Paper
The expanding circles of information behavior and human–computer interaction
Tim Gorichanaz, Sukrit Venkatagiri
Journal of Librarianship & Information Science
The collective wisdom handbook: Perspectives on crowdsourcing in cultural heritage
Mia Ridge, Samantha Blickhan, Meghan Ferriter, Austin Mast, Ben Brumfield, Brendon Wilkins, Daria Cybulska, Denise Burgher, Jim Casey, Kurt Luther, Michael Haley Goldman, Nick White, Pip Willcox, Sara Carlstead Brumfield, Sonya J. Coleman, Ylva Berglund Prytz
Book
2020
Find your twin in history: Exploring ethical design challenges in facial recognition
Vikram Mohanty, Marx Wang, Manisha Kusuma, David Thames, Kurt Luther
CSCW 2020 Workshop Paper
CrowdTrace: Visualizing provenance in distributed sensemaking
Tianyi Li, Yasmine Belghith, Chris North, Kurt Luther
VIS 2020 Paper
Mixed-initiative methods for following design guidelines in creative tasks
Aditya Bharadwaj
Virginia Tech Computer Science Ph.D. Dissertation
Solving mysteries with crowds: Supporting crowdsourced sensemaking with a modularized pipeline and context slices
Tianyi Li
Virginia Tech Computer Science Ph.D. Dissertation
Supporting historical photo identification with face recognition and crowdsourced human expertise
Vikram Mohanty, David Thames, Sneha Mehta, Kurt Luther
IJCAI 2020 Paper
Introduction to the special issue on negotiating truth and trust in socio-technical systems
Kurt Luther, Andrea Kavanaugh, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Judd Antin
ACM Transactions on Social Computing
Photo Sleuth: Identifying historical portraits with face recognition and crowdsourced human expertise
Vikram Mohanty, David Thames, Sneha Mehta, Kurt Luther
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
2019
Read-Agree-Predict: A crowdsourced approach to discovering relevant primary sources for historians
Nai-Ching Wang, David Hicks, Paul Quigley, Kurt Luther
Human Computation Journal
Solving AI’s last-mile problem with crowd-augmented expert work
Kurt Luther
2019 AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Work
GroundTruth: Augmenting expert image geolocation with crowdsourcing and shared representations
Sukrit Venkatagiri, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Rachel Kohler, John Purviance, Rifat Sabbir Mansur, Kurt Luther
CSCW 2019 Paper
Dropping the baton? Understanding errors and bottlenecks in a crowdsourced sensemaking pipeline
Tianyi Li, Chandler J. Manns, Chris North, Kurt Luther
CSCW 2019 Paper
Solving Mysteries with the Wisdom of Crowds: A Modularized Pipeline and Context Slices
Tianyi Li
CSCW 2019 Doctoral Consortium
Designing for coordinated action: Challenges and opportunities of working with experts
Sukrit Venkatagiri, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Kurt Luther
CSCW 2019 Workshop Paper
Second Opinion: Supporting last-mile person identification with crowdsourcing and face recognition
Vikram Mohanty, Kareem Abdol-Hamid, Courtney Ebersohl, Kurt Luther
HCOMP 2019 Paper
PairWise: Mitigating political bias in crowdsourced content moderation
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Sukrit Venkatagiri, David Mitchell, Chris Hurt, Kurt Luther
HCOMP 2019 Demo Best Poster/Demo Award
It’s QuizTime: A study of online verification practices on Twitter
Sukrit Venkatagiri, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Sarwat Kazmi, Efua Akonor, Kurt Luther
HCOMP 2019 Poster
Mixed-initiative methods for following design guidelines in creative tasks
Aditya Bharadwaj
HCOMP 2019 Doctoral Consortium
Critter: Augmenting creative work with dynamic checklists, automated quality assurance, and contextual reviewer feedback
Aditya Bharadwaj, Pao Siangliulue, Adam Marcus, Kurt Luther
CHI 2019 Paper
Flud: A hybrid crowd-algorithm approach for visualizing biological networks
Aditya Bharadwaj, David Gwizdala, Yoonjin Kim, Kurt Luther, T.M. Murali
CHI 2019 Workshop Paper
Flud: A hybrid crowd-algorithm approach for visualizing biological networks
Aditya Bharadwaj, David Gwizdala, Yoonjin Kim, Kurt Luther, T.M. Murali
BioVis@ISMB 2019 Talk and Poster
Photo Sleuth: Combining human expertise and face recognition to identify historical portraits
Vikram Mohanty, David Thames, Sneha Mehta, Kurt Luther
IUI 2019 Paper Best Paper Award
What Data Should I Protect? A Recommender and Impact Analysis Design to Assist Decision Making
Tianyi Li, Gregorio Convertino, Ranjeet Kumar Tayi, Shima Kazerooni
IUI 2019 Paper
Adding intelligence to a data security analysis system: recommendation and planning support
Tianyi Li, Gregorio Convertino, Ranjeet Kumar Tayi, Shima Kazerooni, Gary Patterson
IUI 2019 Demo
Validating the national-scale remote sensing models using crowdsourced observations
Jill M. Derwin, Valerie A. Thomas, Randolph H. Wynne, S. Seth Peery, John Coulston, Kurt Luther, Greg Liknes, Stacie Bender
Pecora 21 and ISRSE-38 Talk
Supporting Historical Research and Education with Crowdsourced Analysis of Primary Sources
Nai-Ching Wang
Virginia Tech Computer Science Ph.D. Dissertation
2018
Response to “Heuristics for the Online Curator”
Sukrit Venkatagiri, Amy X. Zhang
Rita Allen Foundation Misinformation Solutions Forum
Exploring Trade-Offs Between Learning and Productivity in Crowdsourced History
Nai-Ching Wang, David Hicks, Kurt Luther
CSCW 2018 Paper
CrowdIA: Solving Mysteries with Crowdsourced Sensemaking
Tianyi Li, Kurt Luther, Chris North
CSCW 2018 Paper
Localness and Urbanness in Geographic Crowd Work
Sukrit Venkatagiri, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Aliza Camacho, Kurt Luther
CSCW 2018 Workshop Paper
Validating the 2011 and 2016 NLCD Tree Canopy Cover Products using Crowdsourced Interpretations
Jill M. Derwin, Valerie A. Thomas, Randolph H. Wynne, S. Seth Peery, John Coulston, Kurt Luther, Greg Liknes, Stacie Bender
AGU 2018 Poster
The American Soldier Collaborative Digital Archive
Edward J.K. Gitre, Kurt Luther
NEH White Paper
The Effect of Edge Bundling and Seriation on Sensemaking of Biclusters in Bipartite Graphs
Maoyuan Sun, Jian Zhao, Hao Wu, Kurt Luther, Chris North, Naren Ramakrishnan
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
CrowdLayout: Crowdsourced Design and Evaluation of Biological Network Visualizations
Divit P. Singh, Lee Lisle, T. M. Murali, Kurt Luther
CHI 2018 Paper
Geolocating Images with Crowdsourcing and Diagramming
Rachel Kohler, John Purviance, Kurt Luther
IJCAI 2018 Paper
Photo Sleuth: Combining Collective Intelligence and Computer Vision to Identify Historical Portraits
Vikram Mohanty, David Thames, Kurt Luther
CI 2018 Talk
Are 1,000 Features Worth A Picture? Combining Crowdsourcing and Face Recognition to Identify Civil War Soldiers
Vikram Mohanty, David Thames, Kurt Luther
HCOMP 2018 Demo Best Poster/Demo Award
Crowdsourcing Intelligence Analysis with Context Slices
Tianyi Li, Asmita Shah, Kurt Luther, Chris North
CHI 2018 Workshop Paper
Verifying Truth from the Ground: Leveraging Human Strengths in the Image Geolocation Process
Sukrit Venkatagiri, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Kurt Luther
HCIC 2018 Poster
Human Computation for Image and Video Analysis
Kurt Luther
AI Magazine
HyperTuner: Visual Analytics for Hyperparameter Tuning by Professionals
Tianyi Li, Gregorio Convertino, Wenbo Wang, Haley Most, Tristan Zajonc, Yi-Hsun Tsai
IEEE VIS 2018 Workshop Paper
2017
Supporting Image Geolocation with Diagramming and Crowdsourcing
Rachel Kohler, John Purviance, Kurt Luther
HCOMP 2017 Paper Notable Paper Award
GroundTruth: Bringing Together Experts and Crowds for Image Geolocation
Rachel Kohler, John Purviance, Kurt Luther
HCOMP 2017 Workshop Paper
Supporting Open Source Investigative Journalism with Crowdsourced Image Geolocation
Rachel Kohler
Virginia Tech Computer Science M.S. Thesis William Preston Society Master’s Thesis Award
GraphSpace: Stimulating Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Network Biology.
Aditya Bharadwaj, Divit P. Singh, Anna Ritz, Allison N. Tegge, Christopher L. Poirel, Pavel Kraikivski, Neil Adames, Kurt Luther, Shiv D. Kale, Jean Peccoud, John J. Tyson, T. M. Murali
Bioinformatics
GraphSpace: Stimulating Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Network Biology
Aditya Bharadwaj, Divit P. Singh, Anna Ritz, Allison N. Tegge, Christopher L. Poirel, Pavel Kraikivski, Neil Adames, Kurt Luther, Shiv D. Kale, Jean Peccoud, John J. Tyson, T. M. Murali
BOSC@ISMB 2017 Talk
Crowdsourced Image Geolocation as Collective Intelligence
Rachel Kohler, Kurt Luther
CI 2017 Poster
2016
GraphCrowd: Harnessing the Crowd to Lay Out Graphs with Applications to Cellular Signaling Pathways
Divit P. Singh
Virginia Tech Computer Science M.S. Thesis
Researching and Learning History via Crowdsourcing
Nai-Ching Wang
HCOMP 2016 Doctoral Consortium
Crowdnection: Connecting High-level Concepts with Historical Documents via Crowdsourcing
Nai-Ching Wang
CHI 2016 Student Research Competition
An Exploratory Study of Human Performance in Image Geolocation Tasks
Sneha Mehta, Chris North, Kurt Luther
HCOMP 2016 Workshop Paper
Almost an Expert: The Effects of Rubrics and Expertise on Perceived Value of Crowdsourced Design Critiques
Alvin Yuan, Kurt Luther, Markus Krause, Sophie Isabel Vennix, Steven P. Dow, Björn Hartmann
CSCW 2016 Paper
2015
Crowdlines: Supporting Synthesis of Diverse Information Sources through Crowdsourced Outlines
Kurt Luther, Nathan Hahn, Steven P. Dow, Aniket Kittur
HCOMP 2015 Paper
When Should We Use Real Names in Published Accounts of Internet Research?
Amy Bruckman, Kurt Luther, Casey Fiesler
Digital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online
Structuring, Aggregating, and Evaluating Crowdsourced Design Critique
Kurt Luther, Jari-Lee Tolentino, Wei Wu, Amy Pavel, Brian P. Bailey, Maneesh Agrawala, Björn Hartmann, Steven P. Dow
CSCW 2015 Paper
Supporting Local News Sharing with Mobile Crowdsourcing and Large Display Technologies
Kurt Luther, Andrea Kavanaugh, Michael Horning
CSCW 2015 Workshop Paper
2014 and earlier
Curated City: Capturing Individual Mental Maps Through Social City Guides
Justin B. Cranshaw, Kurt Luther, Patrick Gage Kelley, Norman Sadeh
CHI 2014 Paper
CrowdCrit: Crowdsourcing and Aggregating Visual Design Critique
Kurt Luther, Amy Pavel, Wei Wu, Jari-lee Tolentino, Maneesh Agrawala, Björn Hartmann, Steven P. Dow
CSCW 2014 Demo
How Can Crowdsourcing Help Individuals Learn?
Kurt Luther, Steven Dow, Aniket Kittur
CSCW 2014 Workshop Paper
Redistributing Leadership in Online Creative Collaboration
Kurt Luther, Casey Fiesler, Amy Bruckman
CSCW 2013 Paper Best Paper Award
Supporting and Transforming Leadership in Online Creative Collaboration
Kurt Luther
Georgia Tech Human-Centered Computing Ph.D. Dissertation
Who Gives a Tweet: Evaluating Microblog Content Value
Paul André, Michael Bernstein, Kurt Luther
CSCW 2012 Paper Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
Fast, Accurate, and Brilliant: Realizing the Potential of Crowdsourcing and Human Computation
Kurt Luther
CHI 2011 Workshop Paper
Leadership and Success Factors in Online Creative Collaboration
Kurt Luther, Amy Bruckman
IEEE Potentials
Why It Works (When It Works): Success Factors in Online Creative Collaboration
Kurt Luther, Kelly Caine, Kevin Ziegler, Amy Bruckman
GROUP 2010 Paper
Edits & Credits: Exploring Integration and Attribution in Online Creative Collaboration
Kurt Luther, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Amy Bruckman
alt.chi 2010 Paper
Designing for Schadenfreude (or, how to express well-being and see if you’re boring people)
Paul André, m.c. schraefel, Alan Dix, Ryen W. White, Michael Bernstein, Kurt Luther
CHI 2010 Workshop Paper
Pathfinder: An Online Collaboration Environment for Citizen Scientists
Kurt Luther, Scott Counts, Kristin B. Stecher, Aaron Hoff, Paul Johns
CHI 2009 Paper
An Empirical Study of Cognition and Theatrical Improvisation
Brian Magerko, Waleed Manzoul, Mark Riedl, Allan Baumer, Daniel Fuller, Kurt Luther, Celia Pearce
C&C 2009 Paper
CHIstory
Michael Bernstein, Paul André, Kurt Luther, Erin Treacy Solovey, Erika S. Poole, Sharoda A. Paul, Shaun K. Kane, Jonathan Grudin
CHI 2009 Video Most Entertaining Video Award
Predicting Successful Completion of Online Collaborative Animation Projects
Kurt Luther, Kevin Ziegler, Kelly E. Caine, Amy Bruckman
C&C 2009 Poster
Provelt: A New Tool for Supporting Citation in MediaWiki
Kurt Luther, Matthew Flaschen, Andrea Forte, Christopher Jordan, Amy Bruckman
WikiSym 2009 Demo
Flash Collabs: Collaborative Innovation Networks in Online Communities of Animators
Kurt Luther, Amy Bruckman
COINS 2009 Talk
Leadership in Online Creative Collaboration
Kurt Luther, Amy Bruckman
CSCW 2008 Paper
Games for Virtual Team Building
Jason B. Ellis, Kurt Luther, Katherine Bessière, Wendy A. Kellogg
DIS 2008 Paper
Audio Puzzler: Piecing Together Time-Stamped Speech Transcripts with a Puzzle Game
Nicholas Diakopoulos, Kurt Luther, Irfan Essa
MM 2008 Paper
Opening the Black Box: Four Views of Transparency in Remix Culture
Sarita Yardi, Kurt Luther, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Amy Bruckman
CSCW 2008 Workshop Paper
RevisiTour: Enriching the Tourism Experience with User-Generated Content
Youn-ah Kang, John Stasko, Kurt Luther, Avinash Ravi, Yan Xu
ENTER 2008 Paper
Games for Virtual Team Building
Jason B. Ellis, Kurt Luther, Katherine Bessière, Wendy A. Kellogg
CSCW 2008 Workshop Paper
The Evolution of Authorship in a Remix Society
Nicholas Diakopoulos, Kurt Luther, Yevgeniy (Eugene) Medynskiy, Irfan Essa
HT 2007 Paper
Distributed Creativity
Kurt Luther, Nicholas Diakopoulos
C&C 2007 Workshop Paper