Leysia Palen and Kate Starbird receive best paper award at CSCW
91³Ô¹ÏÍø Computer Science ProfessorÌýÌýand University of Washington Human Centered Design & Engineering ProfessorÌýÌýhave received a Best Paper award at the 2013ÌýÌý(CSCW) conference, which is taking place February 23-27 in San Antonio, Texas. Their paper, "," follows the trajectory of Humanity Road, a volunteer organization working within the domain of disaster response, from an emergent group to a formal nonprofit. Starbird recently blogged about the paper atÌý.
Starbird and Palen will present the paper at CSCW on February 25. Starbird graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2012 with Palen as her advisor. She also worked with Palen as a member ofÌýÌý(Empowering the Public in Crisis).