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Saskatchewan, Canada Canada
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Professor in Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan
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Technology / Software / Internet
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http://julita.usask.ca
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I am interested in building successful online communities and social computing applications. These applications depend crucially on user participation. Finding ways to stimulate participation is an interdisciplinary area between computer science, social psychology, and economics. Since people is motivated by different things, I am particularly interested in personalization approaches that tailor the incentives for users depending on their personal features and the features of their groups / communities. I am also interested in recommending information to users in a way that is understandable and controlled by the user. Visualization is the best way to do this in my opinion, so designing...
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learning environments
mentorship
peer help
adaptive rewards
participation
comtella
incentives
interactive recommender systems
interactive visualization of recommendations
visualization
user interfaces for recommender systems
user-generated content
social web
personalization
virtual
museums
cultural heritage
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