Cobi: Communitysourcing Large-Scale Conference Scheduling

Haoqi Zhang; Paul André; Lydia Chilton; Juho Kim; Steven P. Dow; Robert C. Miller; Wendy Mackay; Michel Beaudouin-Lafon

doi:10.1145/2468356.2479597

Cobi: Communitysourcing Large-Scale Conference Scheduling

Haoqi Zhang, Paul André, Lydia Chilton, Juho Kim, Steven P. Dow, Robert C. Miller, Wendy Mackay, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon

Computer Science

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7 Scopus citations

Abstract

Creating a good schedule for a large conference such as CHI requires taking into account the preferences and constraints of organizers, authors, and attendees. Traditionally, the onus of planning is placed entirely on the organizers and involves only a few individuals. Cobi presents an alternative approach to conference scheduling that engages the entire community to take active roles in the planning process. The Cobi system consists of a collection of crowdsourcing applications that elicit preferences and constraints from the community, and software that enable organizers and other community members to take informed actions toward improving the schedule based on collected information. We are currently piloting Cobi as part of the CHI 2013 planning process.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI EA 2013 - Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Changing Perspectives
Editors	Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Patrick Baudisch, Wendy E. Mackay
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	3011-3014
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450318990
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2479597
State	Published - Apr 27 2013
Event	31st Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems:, CHI EA 2013 - Paris, France Duration: Apr 27 2013 → May 2 2013

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	2013-April

Other

Other	31st Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems:, CHI EA 2013
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	4/27/13 → 5/2/13

Funding

We thank Patrick Baudisch for helping us pilot Cobi at CHI 2013, Pedro Lopes and Nirmal Patel for sharing their tools, and members of the CHI community for contributing to planning CHI 2013 using Cobi. This work is supported in part by Quanta Computer as part of the Qmulus project, by the Ford-MIT Alliance, and by NSF under awards SOCS-1111124 and IIS-1208382. Opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors.

Keywords

CHI
Clustering
Collaborative Planning
Conference Scheduling
Crowdware
Human Computation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Zhang, H., André, P., Chilton, L., Kim, J., Dow, S. P., Miller, R. C., Mackay, W., & Beaudouin-Lafon, M. (2013). Cobi: Communitysourcing Large-Scale Conference Scheduling. In M. Beaudouin-Lafon, P. Baudisch, & W. E. Mackay (Eds.), CHI EA 2013 - Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Changing Perspectives (pp. 3011-3014). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2013-April). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2479597

Zhang, Haoqi ; André, Paul ; Chilton, Lydia et al. / Cobi : Communitysourcing Large-Scale Conference Scheduling. CHI EA 2013 - Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Changing Perspectives. editor / Michel Beaudouin-Lafon ; Patrick Baudisch ; Wendy E. Mackay. Association for Computing Machinery, 2013. pp. 3011-3014 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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