Loren Terveen

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

 

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Honors and Major Roles

ACM Distinguished Scientist (2009 - )

ACM SIGCHI Vice President for Membership and Communications (2009 - 2012)

Co-chair, 2002 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2002)

Specialties

Human-Computer Interaction
Social Computing
Recommender Systems
Online Communities
User Interface Design
Graphical User Interfaces
Location-Based Systems
Web search and information management

Click here for a complete C.V. in PDF format, current as of September 2010.

Current Research

I currently carry out research in two major areas:

• Theory-based design of online communities: applying theories from the social sciences to create new interaction techniques and algorithms that elicit more positive participation from community members.
• Geographically-based online communities: creating novel open content systems to support geographically-based communities of interest; Cyclopath is our routing and wiki-map system for bicyclists.

The best way to find my publications is through a Google Scholar search. You can also find a list of all the publications from my research lab here.

Professional / Consulting

I hold 10 patents on a broad variety of topics in web search, information management, intelligent interfaces, and graphical user interfaces. I have consulted on a number of intellectual property cases on issues such as location-based advertising, context-sensitive advertising, intelligent web search, and graphical user interfaces. Professional references available on request.