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Leysia Palen's Degrees

PhD Information Science University of California, Berkeley
Masters Information Science University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Leysia Palen is an American computer scientist known for her contributions to human–computer interaction and disaster informatics. She is a professor of computer science, professor of information science, and founding chair of information science at the University of Colorado Boulder. At Colorado, she directs a research project titled "Empowering the Public with Information during Crisis", and is co-director of the Center for Software & Society. She also holds an adjunct affiliation with the University of Agder, and is a member of the CHI Academy.

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Leysia Palen's Published Works

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Microblogging during two natural hazards events: what twitter may contribute to situational awareness (2010) (1530)
Unpacking "privacy" for a networked world (2003) (1085)
Twitter adoption and use in mass convergence and emergency events (2009) (1022)
"Voluntweeters": self-organizing by digital volunteers in times of crisis (2011) (556)
Citizen communications in crisis: anticipating a future of ICT-supported public participation (2007) (548)
Chatter on the red: what hazards threat reveals about the social life of microblogged information (2010) (513)
Instant messaging in teen life (2002) (495)
(How) will the revolution be retweeted?: information diffusion and the 2011 Egyptian uprising (2012) (434)
Natural Language Processing to the Rescue? Extracting "Situational Awareness" Tweets During Mass Emergency (2011) (353)
Crisis in a Networked World (2009) (347)
A vision for technology-mediated support for public participation & assistance in mass emergencies & disasters (2010) (346)
Finding community through information and communication technology in disaster response (2008) (326)
Pass it on?: Retweeting in mass emergency (2010) (314)
Going wireless: behavior & practice of new mobile phone users (2000) (306)
Online public communications by police & fire services during the 2012 Hurricane Sandy (2014) (264)
Collective Intelligence in Disaster: Examination of the Phenomenon in the Aftermath of the 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting (2008) (260)
Social, individual and technological issues for groupware calendar systems (1999) (257)
In search of the bigger picture: The emergent role of on-line photo sharing in times of disaster (2008) (249)
Voice-mail diary studies for naturalistic data capture under mobile conditions (2002) (247)
Online forums supporting grassroots participation in emergency preparedness and response (2007) (245)
Crisis informatics—New data for extraordinary times (2016) (241)
The Evolving Role of the Public Information Officer: An Examination of Social Media in Emergency Management (2012) (239)
"Site-seeing" in disaster: An examination of on-line social convergence (2008) (213)
The New Cartographers: Crisis Map Mashups and the Emergence of Neogeographic Practice (2010) (208)
Constructing Meaning from Space, Gesture, and Speech (1997) (208)
Discovery and Integration of Mobile Communications in Everyday Life (2001) (196)
“I'll get that off the audio”: a case study of salvaging multimedia meeting records (1997) (192)
Online Social Media in Crisis Events. (2008) (190)
Affect and Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction, From Theory to Applications (2008) (178)
Crisis Informatics: Studying Crisis in a Networked World (2007) (176)
Why Groupware Succeeds: Discretion or Mandate? (1995) (173)
From Crowdsourced Mapping to Community Mapping: The Post-earthquake Work of OpenStreetMap Haiti (2014) (148)
Learning from the crowd: Collaborative filtering techniques for identifying on-the-ground Twitterers during mass disruptions (2012) (146)
Of pill boxes and piano benches: "home-made" methods for managing medication (2006) (142)
The emergence of online widescale interaction in unexpected events: assistance, alliance & retreat (2008) (141)
Think Local, Retweet Global: Retweeting by the Geographically-Vulnerable during Hurricane Sandy (2015) (135)
Twitter‐based information distribution during the 2009 Red River Valley flood threat (2010) (130)
Chatting with teenagers: Considering the place of chat technologies in teen life (2006) (130)
"Beacons of hope" in decentralized coordination: learning from on-the-ground medical twitterers during the 2010 Haiti earthquake (2012) (119)
Social Media in Disaster Communication (2018) (118)
Trial by fire: The deployment of trusted digital volunteers in the 2011 shadow lake fire (2012) (116)
Supporting “Everyday Analysts” in Safety- and Time-Critical Situations (2011) (111)
Participatory design in emergency medical service: designing for future practice (2006) (110)
Success & Scale in a Data-Producing Organization: The Socio-Technical Evolution of OpenStreetMap in Response to Humanitarian Events (2015) (109)
The Zephyr Help Instance: promoting ongoing activity in a CSCW system (1996) (107)
Working and sustaining the virtual "Disaster Desk" (2013) (106)
Finding Community Through Information and Communication Technology During Disaster Events (2008) (106)
Mobile telephony in a connected life (2002) (103)
The Inside Text: Social, Cultural and Design Perspectives on SMS (The Computer Supported Cooperative Work Series) (2005) (99)
Mastering social media: An analysis of Jefferson County's communications during the 2013 Colorado floods (2014) (97)
Beyond the handset: designing for wireless communications usability (2002) (93)
Discretionary Adoption of Group Support Software: Lessons from Calendar Applications (2003) (93)
Supporting disaster reconnaissance with social media data: A design-oriented case study of the 2013 Colorado floods (2014) (86)
The Social Production of Heritage through Cross‐media Interaction: Making Place for Place‐making (2008) (85)
Identifying and Categorizing Disaster-Related Tweets (2016) (75)
Digital mobilization in disaster response: the work & self-organization of on-line pet advocates in response to hurricane sandy (2014) (73)
When home base is not a place: parents’ use of mobile telephones (2007) (70)
The Inside Text (2005) (53)
Hazardous Weather Prediction and Communication in the Modern Information Environment (2017) (53)
Corporate Editors in the Evolving Landscape of OpenStreetMap (2019) (53)
Blogs as a collective war diary (2012) (52)
Infrastructure in the Wild: What Mapping in Post-Earthquake Nepal Reveals about Infrastructural Emergence (2016) (50)
Visual Representations of Disaster (2017) (50)
Calendars on the new frontier: challenges of groupware technology (1998) (44)
Informating Crisis (2018) (44)
“Sometimes da #beachlife ain't always da wave”: Understanding People’s Evolving Hurricane Risk Communication, Risk Assessments, and Responses Using Twitter Narratives (2018) (38)
Resilience-building and the crisis informatics agenda: Lessons learned from open cities Kathmandu (2014) (36)
Improving Classification of Twitter Behavior During Hurricane Events (2018) (33)
Citizen Photojournalism During Crisis Events (2009) (28)
Far Far Away in Far Rockaway: Responses to Risks and Impacts during Hurricane Sandy through First-Person Social Media Narratives (2016) (28)
Thin Grey Lines: Confrontations With Risk on Colorado's Front Range (2017) (26)
Expertise in the Wired Wild West (2015) (26)
Emerging Groupware Successes in Major Corporations: Studies of Adoption and Adaptation (1997) (24)
Finding the Way to OSM Mapping Practices: Bounding Large Crisis Datasets for Qualitative Investigation (2016) (23)
Promoting structured data in citizen communications during disaster response: an account of strategies for diffusion of the 'Tweak the Tweet' syntax (2012) (23)
Don't Get Emotional (2008) (23)
Welcome to the wireless world: problems using and understanding mobile telephony (2001) (22)
The Crowd is the Territory: Assessing Quality in Peer-Produced Spatial Data During Disasters (2018) (22)
Communicating Hurricane Risks: Multi-Method Examination of Risk Imagery Diffusion (2019) (21)
Coordinating time-critical work with role-tagging (2011) (21)
Mobile communications: understanding users, adoption, and design (2001) (20)
Of Coffee Shops and Parking Lots: Considering Matters of Space and Place in the Use of Public Wi-Fi (2008) (20)
NLP to the Rescue?: Extracting "Situational Awareness" Tweets During Mass Emergency (2011) (19)
Crowdwork, crisis and convergence: how the connected crowd organizes information during mass disruption events (2012) (19)
Developing and Evaluating Annotation Procedures for Twitter Data during Hazard Events (2018) (17)
Architectural Implications of Social Media Analytics in Support of Crisis Informatics Research (2013) (16)
EPIC-OSM: A Software Framework for OpenStreetMap Data Analytics (2016) (15)
Engineering Crowdwork for Disaster Events: The Human-Centered Development of a Lost-and-Found Tasking Environment (2015) (14)
Conversations in the Eye of the Storm: At-Scale Features of Conversational Structure in a High-Tempo, High-Stakes Microblogging Environment (2018) (14)
Workshop summary: collaboration & crisis informatics (CCI'2012) (2012) (10)
'Is the Time Right Now?' (2019) (10)
Incorporating Context and Location Into Social Media Analysis: A Scalable, Cloud-Based Approach for More Powerful Data Science (2019) (10)
Learning from the crowd (2012) (9)
The Polyvocality of Resilience: Discovering a Research Agenda through Interdisciplinary Investigation & Community Engagement (2015) (9)
Achieving Accuracy through Ambiguity: the Interactivity of Risk Communication in Severe Weather Events (2020) (9)
Heritage matters in crisis informatics: how information and communication technology can support legacies of crisis events (2012) (8)
Supporting the social media needs of emergency public information officers with human-centered design and development (2012) (7)
Groupware adoption and adaptation: studies of successful use (1997) (5)
Research Agenda in Intelligent Infrastructure to Enhance Disaster Management, Community Resilience and Public Safety (2017) (5)
Participatory Mapping for Disaster Preparedness: The Development & Standardization of Animal Evacuation Maps (2015) (5)
The Tools We Live By: A Description of Personal Support Media in Work Life ; CU-CS-981-04 (2004) (5)
Groupware adoption & adaptation (1997) (4)
Designs for home life (2005) (4)
The Polyvocality of Online COVID-19 Vaccine Narratives that Invoke Medical Racism (2022) (3)
Policy Issues Facing the Use of Social Networking Information During Times of Crisis (2010) (3)
More than the usual suspects: the physical self and other resources for learning to program using a 3D avatar environment (2011) (2)
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (2013) (2)
The Zephyr Help Instance as a CSCW Resource (2008) (2)
“Can’t think of anything more to do”: Public displays of power, privilege, and surrender in social media disaster monologues (2021) (2)
Special Interest Group (SIG): Designs for the home (2005) (2)
Online Social Media in Crisis Events Investigation of recent disasters reveals use of online social media as an emergent, significant, and often accurate form of public participation and backchannel communication (2008) (2)
Repairing Human Infrastructure During Crises (2015) (2)
W orkshop Summary: Collaboration and Crisis Informatics (CCI) (2012) (1)
Keeping Calm in the Chaos: An Examination of Forecaster Sense-Making and Partner Response to TORFFs during Hurricane Florence (2020) (1)
Safety, sensemaking, and solidarity (2018) (1)
Inside Text: an introduction (2005) (1)
"When danger arises, the rule in normal situations is for people to help those next to them before they help themselves." (2007) (0)
Editorial Advisory Board (2012) (0)
Default Thinking : Why consumer products fail (2010) (0)
Data that matter: opportunities in crisis informatics research (2014) (0)
Proceedings Blockinof Blockinthe Blockinchi Blockin2011 Blockindoctoral Blockinsymposium (2011) (0)
MOBILE TELEP CONNECTED LIF (2002) (0)
Information science at CU Boulder (2017) (0)
Call for Open Humanitarian Information (2015) (0)
The social life of disaster information: cultivating resources for emergent information infrastructures in Nepal (2021) (0)
Social Media in Crisis Communication (2013) (0)
Session details: Help me help you (2008) (0)
ECSCW'97 doctoral colloquium: a student participant report (1998) (0)
SIGCHI Social Impact Award (2015) (0)
Speeding-Up Innovation Cycles in Emergency Management Using Mobile & Social Software (2015) (0)

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