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12018
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7799
National Ranking
3374

Overview

Dan Cosley is affiliated with the National Science Foundation in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of social sciences, with a particular focus in subfields including sociology and political science, statistical and nonlinear physics, marketing, automotive engineering, and education.

Their main research topics involve the digital economy and work transformation, sharing economy and platforms, transportation and mobility innovations, complex network analysis techniques, the impact of technology on adolescents, child development and digital technology, and opinion dynamics and social influence.

Dan Cosley has published multiple papers across prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include the Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, and Social Sciences.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Dan Cosley include:

  • Predictability of Popularity: Gaps between Prediction and Understanding (2021), Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Privacy, Surveillance, and Power in the Gig Economy (2022), CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Toward a More Inclusive Gig Economy: Risks and Opportunities for Workers with Disabilities (2022), Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Friends, Strangers, and the Value of Ego Networks for Recommendation (2021), Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Understanding Cross-lingual Pragmatic Misunderstandings in Email Communication (2022), Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Dan Cosley has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Shruti Sannon, Diana Freed, Natalya N. Bazarova, Sunny Consolvo, and Patrick Gage Kelley. Each of these coauthors has contributed multiple times to joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Feedback effects between similarity and social influence in online communities

    David Crandall;Dan Cosley;Daniel Huttenlocher;Jon Kleinberg

  • Getting to know you: learning new user preferences in recommender systems

    Al Mamunur Rashid;Istvan Albert;Dan Cosley;Shyong K. Lam

  • Is seeing believing?: how recommender system interfaces affect users' opinions

    Dan Cosley;Shyong K. Lam;Istvan Albert;Joseph A. Konstan

  • PolyLens: a recommender system for groups of users

    Mark O'Connor;Dan Cosley;Joseph A. Konstan;John Riedl

  • Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing

    Dan Cosley;Andrea Forte;Luigina Ciolfi;David McDonald

  • Inferring social ties from geographic coincidences

    David J. Crandall;Lars Backstrom;Dan Cosley;Siddharth Suri

  • On the recommending of citations for research papers

    Sean M. McNee;Istvan Albert;Dan Cosley;Prateep Gopalkrishnan

  • tagging, communities, vocabulary, evolution

    Shilad Sen;Shyong K. Lam;Al Mamunur Rashid;Dan Cosley

  • SuggestBot: using intelligent task routing to help people find work in wikipedia

    Dan Cosley;Dan Frankowski;Loren Terveen;John Riedl

  • Finding social roles in Wikipedia

    Howard T. Welser;Dan Cosley;Gueorgi Kossinets;Austin Lin

  • Managing Impressions and Relationships on Facebook Self-Presentational and Relational Concerns Revealed Through the Analysis of Language Style

    Natalya N. Bazarova;Jessie G. Taft;Yoon Hyung Choi;Dan Cosley

  • The many faces of facebook: experiencing social media as performance, exhibition, and personal archive

    Xuan Zhao;Niloufar Salehi;Sasha Naranjit;Sara Alwaalan

  • Think different: increasing online community participation using uniqueness and group dissimilarity

    Pamela J. Ludford;Dan Cosley;Dan Frankowski;Loren Terveen

  • Social Sharing of Emotions on Facebook: Channel Differences, Satisfaction, and Replies

    Natalya N. Bazarova;Yoon Hyung Choi;Victoria Schwanda Sosik;Dan Cosley

  • Pensieve: supporting everyday reminiscence

    S. Tejaswi Peesapati;Victoria Schwanda;Johnathon Schultz;Matt Lepage

  • Idea expander: supporting group brainstorming with conversationally triggered visual thinking stimuli

    Hao-Chuan Wang;Dan Cosley;Susan R. Fussell

  • How oversight improves member-maintained communities

    Dan Cosley;Dan Frankowski;Sara Kiesler;Loren Terveen

  • Do social explanations work?: studying and modeling the effects of social explanations in recommender systems

    Amit Sharma;Dan Cosley

  • Taking a HIT: Designing around Rejection, Mistrust, Risk, and Workers' Experiences in Amazon Mechanical Turk

    Brian McInnis;Dan Cosley;Chaebong Nam;Gilly Leshed

  • Automatic Archiving versus Default Deletion: What Snapchat Tells Us About Ephemerality in Design

    Bin Xu;Pamara Chang;Christopher L. Welker;Natalya N. Bazarova

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan R. Fussell
Susan R. Fussell Cornell University
John Riedl
John Riedl University of Minnesota
Loren Terveen
Loren Terveen University of Minnesota
Claire Cardie
Claire Cardie Cornell University
Joseph A. Konstan
Joseph A. Konstan University of Minnesota
Jeffrey T. Hancock
Jeffrey T. Hancock Stanford University
Jon Kleinberg
Jon Kleinberg Cornell University
Steve Lawrence
Steve Lawrence Google (United States)
Siddharth Suri
Siddharth Suri Microsoft (United States)

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