Ed H. Chi

Author: Ed H. Chi

Ed H. Chi is area manager and senior research scientist at Palo Alto Research Center's Augmented Social Cognition Group. Ed completed his three degrees (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.) in 6.5 years from University of Minnesota, and has been doing research on user interface software systems since 1993. He has been featured and quoted in the press, such as the Economist, Time Magazine, LA Times, and the Associated Press.

He has 19 patents and published over 50 research articles. His most well-known project is the study of Information Scent --- understanding how users navigate and understand information environments such as the Web. His past works include an information visualization project called "Spreadsheet for Visualization" --- a data exploratory tool using a 'spreadsheet metaphor' that allows each cell to hold an entire data set with a full-fledged visualization. He has also worked on computational molecular biology, ubicomp, and recommendation/search engines. He has won awards for both teaching and research. In his spare time, Ed is an avid Taekwondo martial artist, photographer, and snowboarder.

Publications

Publication period start: 2010
Number of co-authors: 53

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
Peter Pirolli
6
Lichan Hong
6
Bongwon Suh
9

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
David R. Millen
45
Peter Pirolli
46
Stuart K. Card
73

Publications

Chi, Ed H., Rosien, Adam, Supattanasiri, Gesara, Williams, Amanda, Royer, Christiaan, Chow, Celia, Robles, Erica, Dalal, Brinda, Chen, Julie (2003): The bloodhound project: automating discovery of web usability issues using the InfoScentp . In: Cockton, Gilbert, Korhonen, Panu (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2003 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 5-10, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. pp. 505-512.

Olston, Christopher, Chi, Ed H. (2003): ScentTrails: integrating browsing and searching on the Web. In Interactions, 10 (5) pp. 9-10.

Olston, Christopher, Chi, Ed H. (2003): ScentTrails: Integrating browsing and searching on the Web. In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 10 (3) pp. 177-197. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/937549.937550

Heer, Jeffrey, Chi, Ed H. (2002): Separating the swarm: categorization methods for user sessions on the web. In: Terveen, Loren (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2002 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 20-25, 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota. pp. 243-250.

Chi, Ed H., Pirolli, Peter, Chen, Kim, Pitkow, James (2001): Using Information Scent to Model User Information Needs and Actions and the Web. In: Beaudouin-Lafon, Michel, Jacob, Robert J. K. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2001 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference March 31 - April 5, 2001, Seattle, Washington, USA. pp. 490-497. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/365024/p490-chi/p490-chi.pdf

Woodruff, Allison, Gossweiler, Rich, Pitkow, James, Chi, Ed H., Card, Stuart K. (2000): Enhancing a Digital Book with a Reading Recommender. In: Turner, Thea, Szwillus, Gerd, Czerwinski, Mary, Peterno, Fabio, Pemberton, Steven (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2000 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 1-6, 2000, The Hague, The Netherlands. pp. 153-160. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/332040/p153-woodruff/p153-woodruff.pdf

Chi, Ed H., Pirolli, Peter, Pitkow, James (2000): The Scent of a Site: A System for Analyzing and Predicting Information Scent, Usage, and U. In: Turner, Thea, Szwillus, Gerd, Czerwinski, Mary, Peterno, Fabio, Pemberton, Steven (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2000 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 1-6, 2000, The Hague, The Netherlands. pp. 161-168. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/332040/p161-chi/p161-chi.pdf

Chi, Ed H., Pitkow, James, Mackinlay, Jock D., Pirolli, Peter, Gossweiler, Rich, Card, Stuart K. (1998): Visualizing the Evolution of Web Ecologies. In: Karat, Clare-Marie, Lund, Arnold, Coutaz, Joëlle, Karat, John (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 98 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 18-23, 1998, Los Angeles, California. pp. 400-407. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/274644/p400-chi/p400-chi.pdf

Chi, Ed H., Song, Jin, Corbin, Greg (2004): \\. In: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology , 2004, . pp. 277-285. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1029632.1029680

Kittur, Aniket, Suh, Bongwon, Pendleton, Bryan A., Chi, Ed H. (2007): He says, she says: conflict and coordination in Wikipedia. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2007, . pp. 453-462. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1240624.1240698

Hong, Lichan, Chi, Ed H., Card, Stuart K. (2005): Annotating 3D electronic books. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2005, . pp. 1463-1466. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1056808.1056942

Kittur, Aniket, Chi, Ed H., Suh, Bongwon (2008): Crowdsourcing user studies with Mechanical Turk. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008, . pp. 453-456. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1357054.1357127

Suh, Bongwon, Chi, Ed H., Kittur, Aniket, Pendleton, Bryan A. (2008): Lifting the veil: improving accountability and social transparency in Wikipedia with wikid. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008, . pp. 1037-1040. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1357054.1357214

Bellotti, Victoria, Begole, Bo, Chi, Ed H., Ducheneaut, Nicolas, Fang, Ji, Isaacs, Ellen, King, Tracy, Newman, Mark W., Partridge, Kurt, Price, Bob, Rasmussen, Paul, Roberts, Michael (2008): Activity-based serendipitous recommendations with the Magitti mobile leisure guide. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008, . pp. 1157-1166. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1357054.1357237

Chi, Ed H., Mytkowciz, Todd (2008): Understanding the Efficiency of Social Tagging Systems using Information Theory. In: ACM Conference on Hypertext 2008 , 2008, . pp. 81-88. https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~echi/papers/2008-hypertext/2008-04-29-hypertext08-tagging-info-theory-fp-046-chi.pdf

Kittur, Aniket, Suh, Bongwon, Chi, Ed H. (2008): Can you ever trust a wiki?: impacting perceived trustworthiness in wikipedia. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW08 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work , 2008, . pp. 477-480. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1460563.1460639

Evans, Brynn M., Chi, Ed H. (2008): Towards a model of understanding social search. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW08 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work , 2008, . pp. 485-494. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1460563.1460641

Chi, Ed H., Mytkowicz, Todd (2008): Understanding the efficiency of social tagging systems using information theory. In: Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia , 2008, . pp. 81-88. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1379092.1379110

Kammerer, Yvonne, Nairn, Rowan, Pirolli, Peter, Chi, Ed H. (2009): Signpost from the masses: learning effects in an exploratory social tag search browser. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 625-634. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1518701.1518797

Kittur, Aniket, Chi, Ed H., Suh, Bongwon (2009): What\'s in Wikipedia?: mapping topics and conflict using socially annotated category struc. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 1509-1512. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1518701.1518930

Hong, Lichan, Chi, Ed H. (2009): Annotate once, appear anywhere: collective foraging for snippets of interest using paragra. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 1791-1794. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1518701.1518976

Nelson, Les, Held, Christoph, Pirolli, Peter, Hong, Lichan, Schiano, Diane, Chi, Ed H. (2009): With a little help from my friends: examining the impact of social annotations in sensemak. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 1795-1798. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1518701.1518977

Evans, David A., Feldman, Susan, Chi, Ed H., Milic-Frayling, Natasa, Perisic, Igor (2008): The social (open) workspace. In: Shanahan, James G., Amer-Yahia, Sihem, Manolescu, Ioana, Zhang, Yi, Evans, David A., Kolcz, Aleksander, Choi, Key-Sun, Chowdhury, Abdur (eds.) Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - CIKM 2008 October 26-30, 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA. pp. 1529. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1458082.1458214

Convertino, Gregorio, Kairam, Sanjay, Hong, Lichan, Suh, Bongwon, Chi, Ed H. (2010): Designing a cross-channel information management tool for workers in enterprise task force. In: Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces , 2010, . pp. 103-110. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1842993.1843013

Hong, Lichan, Convertino, Gregorio, Suh, Bongwon, Chi, Ed H., Kairam, Sanjay (2010): FeedWinnower: layering structures over collections of information streams. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2010, . pp. 947-950. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753326.1753466

Suh, Bongwon, Convertino, Gregorio, Chi, Ed H., Pirolli, Peter (2009): The singularity is not near: slowing growth of Wikipedia. In: Proceedings of the 2009 International Symposium on Wikis , 2009, . pp. 8. https://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/procfiles/p108-suh.pdf

Bernstein, Michael S., Suh, Bongwon, Hong, Lichan, Chen, Jilin, Kairam, Sanjay, Chi, Ed H. (2010): Eddi: interactive topic-based browsing of social status streams. In: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology , 2010, . pp. 303-312. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1866029.1866077

Convertino, Gregorio, Grasso, Antonietta, Michelis, Giorgio De, Millen, David R., Chi, Ed H. (2010): Clorg: collective intelligence in organizations. In: GROUP10 International Conference on Supporting Group Work , 2010, . pp. 355-358. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1880071.1880149

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