Jacob Thebault-Spieker

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CHI '26CorrespondingExploratory Search & Information Seeking +2

PlaceWeave: Understanding Place Through Social Video Narratives and Graph-Enhanced Local Knowledge

People visiting or moving to a new city often struggle to understand local vibes and everyday routines. Short-form videos on TikTok capture these local stories, but people still have to jump between chatbots, maps, and apps to turn them into concrete plans. We introduce PlaceWeave, a human-centered trip-planning syste…

CHI '26CorrespondingCommunity Collaboration & Wikipedia +2

Beyond Access: Contextualizing the Benefits of Broadband through Contributor Dynamics on Wikipedia

Broadband infrastructure is often assumed to reduce informational disparities by expanding access to digital platforms. Yet less is understood about how broadband shapes participation in peer production communities, where knowledge is collectively created and maintained. Using spatial regression models, we examine how…

CSCW '25CorrespondingOpen Source Communities

The Effect of Population Density on Remote Humanitarian Mapping Activities: A Triple-Difference Analysis

The proliferation of OpenStreetMap (OSM) as a collaborative geographic dataset has been instrumental in addressing data gaps globally. However, disparities in map coverage persist, particularly in economically disadvantaged and disaster-prone regions. The emergence of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) in 2010…

CSCW '25CorrespondingCrowdsourcing & Peer Production

Beyond “Geo” HCI: Exploring Cultural Dimensions of Disparity in OpenStreetMap Road Safety Metadata

Peer production systems like OpenStreetMap exhibit well-known information gaps along socioeconomic and population density lines, causing issues for end users when AI tools, such as autonomous vehicles, rely on this incomplete data. Prior work has shown these trends, but how they influence important semantic metadata r…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 1d: Values and Practices in Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science

Productivity or Equity? Tradeoffs in Volunteer Microtasking in Humanitarian OpenStreetMap

Microtasking, the decomposition of tasks into small units of work, is prolific in human computation and crowdsourcing, and some peer production systems are beginning to leverage this same technique in volunteer contribution-based settings. While early research suggests that focusing volunteer work in this way using mi…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 3d: Moderating the Digital Sphere

Investigating Influential Users’ Responses to Permanent Suspension on Social Media

Social media platforms use permanent suspension as a measure of last resort to intervene with users who spread harmful or misleading content. However, permanent suspension does not signify the end of a user's online presence, but rather on that specific platform. This issue is particularly salient for influential user…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 2d: Technology and the Experiences of Migrant and Minority Communities

Journeying Through Sense of Place with Mental Maps: Characterizing Changing Spatial Understanding and Sense of Place During Migration for Work

Millions of people move for work yearly, but this labor migration risks social and cultural challenges, hindering migrants' integration into new communities. Software tools could support this transition, but the design space around, and the mechanisms behind, how individuals develop spatial understanding and ''sense o…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 2g: Reflecting on CSCW, methods and artifacts

A Turn to Assets in Community-Based Computing Research: Tradeoffs, Deficits, and Neoliberalism in Technological Development

CSCW and HCI scholars are increasingly adopting asset-based approaches to community-based social computing research. Emerging from asset-based community development (ABCD), an approach to community and economic development research and practice that emerged in the 1990s, advocates for asset-based approaches argue that…

CSCW '214th AuthorCrowds and Data Work

Understanding Wikipedia Practices Through Hindi, Urdu, and English Takes on an Evolving Regional Conflict

Wikipedia is the product of thousands of editors working collaboratively to provide free and up-to-date encyclopedic information to the project's users. This article asks to what degree Wikipedia articles in three languages --- Hindi, Urdu, and English --- achieve Wikipedia’s mission of making neutrally-presented, re…

CSCW '192nd AuthorCrowds and participatory sensing

GroundTruth: Augmenting Expert Image Geolocation with Crowdsourcing and Shared Representations

Expert investigators bring advanced skills and deep experience to analyze visual evidence, but they face limits on their time and attention. In contrast, crowds of novices can be highly scalable and parallelizable, but lack expertise. In this paper, we introduce the concept of shared representations for crowd–augmente…

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