Research Papers


Crowd Coach: Peer Coaching for Crowd Workers' Skill Growth

Chun-Wei Chiang, Anna Kasunic, Saiph Savage
CSCW: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2018.

The Social Roles of Bots: Evaluating Impact of Bots on
Discussions in Online Communities

Joseph Seering, Juan Pablo Flores, Saiph Savage, Jessica Hammer
CSCW: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2018.

Mobilizing the Trump Train: Understanding Collective Action
in a Political Troll Community

Claudia Flores-Saviaga, Brian Keegan, Saiph Savage
ICWSM: International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 2018

A Data-Driven Analysis of Workers’ Earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Kotaro Hara, Abigail Adams, Kristy Milland, Saiph Savage, Chris Callison-Burch, Jeffrey Bigham
CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2018
Honorable Mention (Top 5% of all CHI Papers)

Crowdsourcing the Installation and Maintenance of Indoor Localization Infrastructure to Support Blind Navigation

Cole Gleason, Dragan Ahmetovic, Saiph Savage, Jeffrey Bigham
UbiComp Journal: ACM Journal on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 2018

Blockchain for Trustful Collaborations between Immigrants and Governments

Chun-Wei Chiang, Eber Betanzos, Saiph Savage
CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2018

Enabling Expert Critique with Chatbots and Micro Guidance

Carlos Toxtli, Joel Chan, Walter S. Lasecki, Saiph Savage
CI: ACM Collective Intelligence Conference 2018

Crowd Work on a CV? Understanding How AMT Fits into Turkers' Career Goals and Professional Profiles

Anna Kasunic, Chun Wei Chiang, Geoff Kaufman, Saiph Savage
CI: ACM Collective Intelligence Conference 2018

User Experiences with Traditional and 3D-Printed Upper Extremity Prostheses, Development of a Comprehensive Survey Instrument

Goeran Fiedler, Jennifer Mankoff, Sydney Eckert, Chelsea Ngo, Saiph Savage
Canadian Prosthetics and Orthotics Journal 2018

Designing Blockchain Technology to Transform Rural Communities

Chun-Wei Chiang, Eber Betanzos, Michael Austin, Saiph Savage
Workshop CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2018

Detecting and Counter-Attacking Online Radicalization and Cyberwars

Saiph Savage, Eber Betanzos
POST 2018 (DOD Funding conference)

Subcontracting Microwork

Meredith Ringel Morris, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Robin Brewer, Jonathan Bragg, Anand Kulkarni, Jessie Li, and Saiph Savage
CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2017

The Effects of ``Not Knowing What You Don't Know'' on Web Accessibility for Blind Web Users

Jeffrey Bigham, Irene Lin, Saiph Savage
ASSETS: ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility 2017

Audience Participation Games: Blurring the Line Between Player and Spectator

Joseph Seering, Saiph Savage, Michael Eagle, Joshua Churchin, Rachel Moeller, Jeffrey Bigham, Jessica Hammer
DIS: ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2017

Understanding Mobile Money Perceptions of Latin American Migrants

Chun-Wei Chiang, Claudia Flores Saviaga, Eduardo Jr Arenas, Felipe Colin, Mario Romero, Cuauhtemoc Rivera-Loaiza, Norma Elva Chavez and Saiph Savage
Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2017

On How Deaf People Might Use Speech to Control Devices

Jeffrey Bigham, Raja Kushalnagar, Ting-Hao K. Huang, Karen Kim, Juan Pablo Flores, Saiph Savage
ASSETS: ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility 2017

Automated Assistants to Identify and Prompt Action on Visual News Bias

Vishwajeet Narwa, Mohamed Hashim Salih, Jose Angel Lopez, Angel Ortega, John o'Donovan, Tobias Hollerer, and Saiph Savage
CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2017

CHI-nnabis: Implications of Marijuana Legalization for and from Human-Computer Interaction

Brian C. Keegan, Jofish Kaye, Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, Munmun de Choudhury, Dong Nguyen, Michael J. Paul, and Saiph Savage
CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2017

Social Media, Civic Engagement, and the Slactivism Hypothesis:
Lessons from Mexico's "El Bronco"

Phil Howard, Saiph Savage, Claudia Saviaga, Carlos Toxtli, Andres Monroy-Hemández
Journal Of International Affairs 2016

Botivist: Calling Volunteers to Action Using Online Bots

Saiph Savage, Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Tobias Hollerer
CSCW: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2016

Bring on Board New Enthusiasts! A Case Study of Impact of Wikipedia Art + Feminism Edit-a-thon Events on Newcomers

Rosta Farzan, Saiph Savage, Claudia Flores-Saviaga
SocInfo: 8th International Conference on Social Informatics 2016

Innovations in Autonomous Systems: Challenges and Opportunities for Human-Agent Collaboration

Lia Emanuel, Joel Fischer, Wendy Ju, Saiph Savage
CSCW: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2016

How To Think About Bots

Sam Woolley, danah boyd, Gilad Lotan, Gilad Rasner, Samantha Shorey, Alexis Lloyd, Luis Daniel Palacios, Saiph Savage, Meredith Broussard, Madeline Clare Elish, Lainna Fader, Tim Hwang
Vice Magazine

BotViz: Data Visualizations for Collaborations With Bots and Volunteers

Carlos Toxtli, Claudia Flores-Saviaga, Flor Aguilar, Alejandra Monroy, William Dai, Juan Pablo Flores, Nedda Amini, Jeerel Herrejon, Shloka Desai, Norma Elva Chavez, Saiph Savage
CSCW: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2016

Tag Me Maybe: Perceptions of Public Targeted Sharing on Facebook

Saiph Savage, Andres Monroy-Hernandez,Kasturi Bhattacharjee, Tobias Hollerer.
Hypertext:26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 2015

LeadWise: Using Online Bots to Recruite and Guide Expert Volunteers

Claudia Flores-Saviaga, Saiph Savage, Dario Taraborelli
CSCW: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2016

Participatory Militias: An Analysis of an Armed Movement's Online Audience.

Saiph Savage, Andres Monroy-Hernandez.
CSCW: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2015

Political Bots and the Manipulation of Public Opinion in Venezuela

Michelle Forelle, Phil Howard, Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Saiph Savage.
arXiv 2015

Daemo: a Self-Governed Crowdsourcing Marketplace

Stanford Research Collective, Saiph Savage, Michael Bernstein.
UIST: ACM Conference on User Interface Software and Technology 2015

Motivating Crowds to Volunteer Neighborhood Data

Nataly Moreno, Saiph Savage, Anamary Leal, Jessica Cornick, Matthew Turk, Tobias Hollerer.
CSCW: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2015

Participatory Stoves: Designing Renewable Energy Technologies for the Rural Sector

Walter Angel, Saiph Savage, Nataly Moreno.
CSCW: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2015

Visualizing Targeted Online Audiences

Saiph Savage, Angus Forbes, Carlos Toxtli, Grant McKenzie, Shloka Desai, Tobias Hollerer.
COOP: Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems 2014: Springer

The "Courage For” Facebook Pages: Advocacy Citizen Journalism in the Wild.

Saiph Savage, Andres Monroy-Hernandez.
C+J:Computation+Journalism Symposium 2014. American Journalism Review.

FiberKraft: An Interface for Designing Optical Fiber Networks

Julio Cruz, Hugo Estrada, Saiph Savage, Norma Elva Chavez.
ENC: Encuentro Nacional de Ciencias de la Computacion 2014

I'm Feeling LoCo: A Location Based Context Aware Recommendation System.

Norma Saiph Savage, Maciej Baranski, Norma Elva Chavez, Tobias Hollerer.
LBS: International Symposium on Location-Based Services 2011. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer

Crowdsourcing Volunteers

Shloka Desai, Luis Rodriguez, Saiph Savage, Norma Elva Chavez, Angus Forbes.
SoCal CWIC: Celebration of Women in Computing in Southern California 2014.

Utilizing Crowdsourced Databases for Social Media Question Asking

Saiph Savage, Angus Forbes, Rodrigo Savage, Tobias Hollerer, Norma Elva Chavez.
CSCW: Workshop on Social Media Question Asking at ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2013

Directed Social Queries with Transparent User Models

Saiph Savage, Angus Forbes, Rodrigo Savage, Tobias Hollerer, Norma Elva Chavez.
UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2012

Visualizing and Verifying Directed Social Queries

Angus Forbes, Saiph Savage, Tobias Hollerer.
InfoVis: IEEE Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics at IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2012

Search on the Cloud File System

Rodrigo Savage,Tania Nava, Norma Elva Chavez, Norma Saiph Savage.
PDCS: Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems Conference 2011

Nintendo Wiimote for Arm and Wrist Therapy in Stroke Survivors with Upper Extremity Hemipariesis

Ron S. Leder, Gil Azcarate, Rodrigo Savage, Saiph Savage, L. Enrique Sucar, David Reinkensmeyer, Carlos Toxtli, Emilio Roth, Ariel Molina.
IEEE Virtual Rehabilitation 2008

A Social Crowd-Controlled Orchestra

Saiph Savage, Norma Elva Chavez, Carlos Toxtli, Salvador Medina, David Alvarez, Tobias Hollerer.
CSCW: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2013

Enchantment Under the Sea: An Intelligent Environment for User Friendly Music Mixing

Norma Elva Chavez, Rodrigo Savage, Tania Nava, Saiph Savage.
IE: International Conference on Intelligent Environments 2012

Never Alone:A Crowdbased Interactive Musical Interface.

Norma Elva Chavez, Rodrigo Savage, Saiph Savage.
SoCal CWIC: Celebration of Women in Computing in Southern California 2012

Mmmmm:A multi-modal mobile music mixer

Norma Saiph Savage, Reza Ali, Norma Elva Chavez, Rodrigo Savage.
NIME: Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2010

Frequent trajectory mining on GPS data.

Norma Saiph Savage, Shoji Nishimura, Norma Elva Chavez, and Xifeng Yan.
LocWeb: ACM Workshop on Location and the Web, at the Internet of Things, 2010.

Right place at the right time: novel place recommendation system

Norma Elva Chávez, Saiph Savage, Rodrigo Savage.
IX Congreso Internacional sobre Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico, Cuernavaca, México del 23 al 25 de Noviembre del 2011


Patents

Socially and Contextually Appropriate Recommendation Systems

Saiph Savage, Lama Nachman, Saurav Sahay, Giuseppe Raffa.
U.S. Patent Disclosure, filed 2014

Online Social Persona Management

Saiph Savage, Rita Wouhaybi, Lama Nachman, Saurav Sahay.
U.S. Patent Disclosure, filed, 2013

Traversing Data Using Data Relationships

Saiph Savage, Rita Wouhaybi.
U.S. Patent Disclosure, filed 2012, published 2014.