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Overview

Derek L. Hansen is affiliated with Brigham Young University in the United States. Their research mainly spans the field of Computer Science with a focus on multiple subfields including Developmental and Educational Psychology, Information Systems, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Human-Computer Interaction, and Computer Science Applications.

The primary topics addressed in Hansen's work include Educational Games and Gamification, Information and Cyber Security, Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis, Teaching and Learning Programming, Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts, Behavioral Health and Interventions, and Innovative Human-Technology Interaction.

Hansen has published in several venues, with frequent contributions appearing in arXiv (Cornell University), Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, TechTrends, and Aphasiology.

  • The Role of Steps and Game Elements in Gamified Fitness Tracker Apps: A Systematic Review (2021) in Multimodal Technologies and Interaction
  • Learning physical models that can respect conservation laws (2023) in Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena
  • Increasing Cybersecurity Career Interest through Playable Case Studies (2021) in TechTrends
  • Simulating Municipal Cybersecurity Incidents: Recommendations from Expert Interviews (2021) in Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • Generative AI applied to AAC for aphasia: a pilot study of Aphasia-GPT (2024) in Aphasiology

Frequent collaborators of Derek L. Hansen include Elizabeth Bonsignore, Jason K. McDonald, Justin Scott Giboney, Jon Balzotti, and Aatish Neupane.

Best Publications

  • Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World

    Derek Hansen;Ben Shneiderman;Marc A. Smith

  • The impact of polices on government social media usage: Issues, challenges, and recommendations

    John Carlo Bertot;Paul T. Jaeger;Derek L. Hansen

  • Dynamic changes in motivation in collaborative citizen-science projects

    Dana Rotman;Jenny Preece;Jen Hammock;Kezee Procita

  • Adolescents Searching for Health Information on the Internet: An Observational Study

    Derek L Hansen;Holly A Derry;Paul J Resnick;Caroline R Richardson

  • Impact of Popularity Indications on Readers' Selective Exposure to Online News

    Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick;Nikhil Sharma;Derek L. Hansen;Scott Alter

  • Using gamification to inspire new citizen science volunteers

    Anne Bowser;Derek Hansen;Yurong He;Carol Boston

  • Computing political preference among twitter followers

    Jennifer Golbeck;Derek Hansen

  • Does pornography-blocking software block access to health information on the Internet?

    Caroline R. Richardson;Paul J. Resnick;Derek L. Hansen;Holly A. Derry

  • Chapter 2 – Social Media: New Technologies of Collaboration

    Derek L. Hansen;Ben Shneiderman;Marc A. Smith

  • A method for computing political preference among Twitter followers

    Jennifer Golbeck;Derek L. Hansen

  • Social Participation in Health 2.0

    Bradford W Hesse;Derek Hansen;Thomas Finholt;Sean Munson

  • Do You Know the Way to SNA?: A Process Model for Analyzing and Visualizing Social Media Network Data

    D. L. Hansen;D. Rotman;E. Bonsignore;N. Milic-Frayling

  • Supporting content curation communities: The case of the Encyclopedia of Life

    Dana Rotman;Kezia Procita;Derek Hansen;Cynthia Sims Parr

  • Social Network Analysis: Measuring, Mapping, and Modeling Collections of Connections

    Derek L. Hansen;Ben Shneiderman;Marc A. Smith;Itai Himelboim

  • First Steps to Netviz Nirvana: Evaluating Social Network Analysis with NodeXL

    Elizabeth M. Bonsignore;Cody Dunne;Dana Rotman;Marc Smith

  • Group-in-a-Box Layout for Multi-faceted Analysis of Communities

    Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues;Natasa Milic-Frayling;Marc Smith;Ben Shneiderman

  • Exploring social media relationships

    Derek L. Hansen

  • Alternate Reality Games as Platforms for Practicing 21st-Century Literacies

    Elizabeth Bonsignore;Derek Hansen;Kari Kraus;Marc Ruppel

  • Quality control mechanisms for crowdsourcing: peer review, arbitration, & expertise at familysearch indexing

    Derek L. Hansen;Patrick J. Schone;Douglas Corey;Matthew Reid

  • PLAYING IN THE SAME TWITTER NETWORK

    Itai Himelboim;Derek Hansen;Anne Bowser

  • Gamifying citizen science: a study of two user groups

    Anne Bowser;Derek Hansen;Jennifer Preece;Yurong He

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc A. Smith
Marc A. Smith Connected Action Consulting Group
Ben Shneiderman
Ben Shneiderman University of Maryland, College Park
Jenny Preece
Jenny Preece University of Maryland, College Park
Paul Resnick
Paul Resnick University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Allison Druin
Allison Druin University of Maryland, College Park
Jennifer Golbeck
Jennifer Golbeck University of Maryland, College Park
Paul T. Jaeger
Paul T. Jaeger University of Maryland, College Park
Carman Neustaedter
Carman Neustaedter Simon Fraser University
Brian G. Southwell
Brian G. Southwell Duke University

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