Travis Kriplean @ DUB

Travis Kriplean
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/travis/
travis [at] cs.washington.edu
Graduate Student
Computer Science & Engineering

Keywords: cscw, consensus, wikipedia, digital government, value sensitive design, participatory design, grounded theory, hci

I'm excited by collaborations that require consensus seeking among diverse stakeholders, particularly when the issues being deliberated are controversial--and I want to help support this work (which puts me in the domain of Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW)). I've been working with Alan Borning on tools for applying large-scale urban simulation models (UrbanSim) to contentious planning decisions, and making those results accessible to local organizations and citizens. The goal is to help engender a more vibrant public sphere.

To gain traction on the design of systems that participants work through their differences, I've also been studying how the Wikipedia community produces reasonable articles. By grounding my research in urban planning and participatory encyclopedia authoring, I hope to establish general principles for consensus-based design.

Publications:

Batya Friedman, Alan Borning, Janet Davis, Brian Gill, Peter H. Kahn, Travis Kriplean and Peyina Lin.
Laying the Foundations for Public Participation and Value Advocacy: Interaction Design for a Large Scale Urban Simulation.
dg.o 2008.
Ivan Beschastnikh, Travis Kriplean and David W. McDonald.
Wikipedian Self-governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens.
ICWSM 2008.
Travis Kriplean, Ivan Beschastnikh, David W. McDonald and Scott A. Golder.
Community, Consensus, Coercion, Control: CS*W or How Policy Mediates Mass Participation.
GROUP 2007.
Travis Kriplean, Evan Welbourne, Nodira Khoussainova, Vibhor Rastogi, Magdalena Balazinska, Gaetano Borriello and Tadayoshi Kohno.
Physical Access Control for Captured RFID Data.
IEEE Pervasive Computing 2007.