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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…

Zihan Gao et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison

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…

Yaxuan Yin et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison

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…

Yaxuan Yin et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison

Open Source Communities

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…

Yaxuan Yin et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison

Crowdsourcing & Peer Production

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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…

Yaxuan Yin et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison

Session 1d: Values and Practices in Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science

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…

Zihan Gao et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison

Session 3d: Moderating the Digital Sphere

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…

Zihan Gao et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison

Session 2d: Technology and the Experiences of Migrant and Minority Communities

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…

Jean Hardy et al.Michigan State University

Session 2g: Reflecting on CSCW, methods and artifacts

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…

Molly G Hickman et al.Virginia Tech

Crowds and Data Work

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…

Sukrit Venkatagiri et al.Virginia Tech

Crowds and participatory sensing

Distance and Attraction: Gravity Models for Geographic Content Production

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), such as contributions to OpenStreetMap and geotagged Wikipedia articles, is often assumed to be produced locally. However, recent work has found that peer-produced VGI is frequently contributed by non-locals. , in which contributions flow between regions based on distance, pr…

Jacob Thebault-Spieker et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison

Toward a Geographic Understanding of the Sharing Economy: Systemic Biases in UberX and TaskRabbit

Despite the geographically situated nature of most sharing economy tasks, little attention has been paid to the role that geography plays in the sharing economy. In this article, we help to address this gap in the literature by examining how four key principles from human geography—distance decay, structured variation…

Jacob Thebault-Spieker et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison

Simulation Experiments on (the Absence of) Ratings Bias in Reputation Systems

As the gig economy continues to grow and freelance work moves online, five-star reputation systems are becoming more and more common. At the same time, there are increasing accounts of race and gender bias in evaluations of gig workers, with negative impacts for those workers. We report on a series of four Mechanical…

Jacob Thebault-Spieker et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison

Fairness and Bias

Paper Title	Authors	Research Topics
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…	ZG Zihan Gao et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison
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…	YY Yaxuan Yin et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison
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…	YY Yaxuan Yin et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison	Open Source Communities
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…	YY Yaxuan Yin et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison	Crowdsourcing & Peer Production
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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…	YY Yaxuan Yin et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison	Session 1d: Values and Practices in Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science
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…	ZG Zihan Gao et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison	Session 3d: Moderating the Digital Sphere
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…	ZG Zihan Gao et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison	Session 2d: Technology and the Experiences of Migrant and Minority Communities
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…	JH Jean Hardy et al.Michigan State University	Session 2g: Reflecting on CSCW, methods and artifacts
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…	MH Molly G Hickman et al.Virginia Tech	Crowds and Data Work
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…	SV Sukrit Venkatagiri et al.Virginia Tech	Crowds and participatory sensing
Distance and Attraction: Gravity Models for Geographic Content Production Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), such as contributions to OpenStreetMap and geotagged Wikipedia articles, is often assumed to be produced locally. However, recent work has found that peer-produced VGI is frequently contributed by non-locals. , in which contributions flow between regions based on distance, pr…	JT Jacob Thebault-Spieker et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison
Toward a Geographic Understanding of the Sharing Economy: Systemic Biases in UberX and TaskRabbit Despite the geographically situated nature of most sharing economy tasks, little attention has been paid to the role that geography plays in the sharing economy. In this article, we help to address this gap in the literature by examining how four key principles from human geography—distance decay, structured variation…	JT Jacob Thebault-Spieker et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison
Simulation Experiments on (the Absence of) Ratings Bias in Reputation Systems As the gig economy continues to grow and freelance work moves online, five-star reputation systems are becoming more and more common. At the same time, there are increasing accounts of race and gender bias in evaluations of gig workers, with negative impacts for those workers. We report on a series of four Mechanical…	JT Jacob Thebault-Spieker et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison	Fairness and Bias