Loren Terveen

Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Minnesota 4-192 EE/CS Building 200 Union Street SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 terveen@cs.umn.edu +1 612 624-8310

 

Research

My research interests are human-computer interaction and computer-mediated communication. I have done research in specific areas such as collaborative filtering, web search and information management, intelligent interfaces, organizational memory, and visualization.

I currently carry out research in two major areas:

• Online communities: specifically, applying theories from the social sciences to create new interaction techniques and algorithms that elicit more positive participation from community members. This work is carried out as a joint project between the University of Minnesota, Carnegie Mellon University, and The University of Michigan. See CommunityLab.org for more details.
• Location-based systems: specifically, creating both mobile and web-based systems that are allow individuals and groups to organize and access information about geographical places and areas. See my vita (below) and the GroupLens web site for links to the relevant publications.

Long Curriculum Vita, Summer 2007