I'm a Ph.D. student in the HCI Institute working with Bob Kraut. The "i" in my name is silent. And I really like Brussels sprouts.
Office: 300 S. Craig St., Room 206
Email: My first name at cmu.edu.
Burke, M., Marlow, C., and Lento, T. (2009). Feed me: Motivating newcomer contribution in social network sites. ACM CHI 2009: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
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Burke, M., and Kraut, R. (2008). Mopping up: Modeling Wikipedia promotion decisions. ACM CSCW 2008: Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. 27-36.
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Burke, M., and Kraut R. (2008) Mind your Ps and Qs: The impact of politeness and rudeness in online communities. ACM CSCW 2008: Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. 281-284.
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Burke, M., Joyce, E., Kim, T., Anand, V., and Kraut, R. (2007). Introductions and Requests: Rhetorical Strategies That Elicit Response in Online Communities. Third International Conference on Communities & Technologies 2007.
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Torrey, C., Lee, M., Burke, M. Dey, A., Fussell, S., and Kiesler, S., (2007). Connected Giving: Ordinary People Coordinating Disaster Relief on the Internet. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2007.
Burke M., Amento, B., Isengard, P. (2006). Error Correction of Voicemail Transcripts in SCANMail. ACM CHI 2006: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York: ACM.
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Burke, M., Gorman, N., Hornof, A., and E. Nilsen (2004). Banner Advertisements Hinder Visual Search and Are Ignored. ACM CHI 2004: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI 2004: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York: ACM, 1139-1142.
Burke, M., Kraut, R., and Joyce, E. (under review). Membership claims and requests: Some newcomer socialization strategies in online communities. Journal of Applied Psychology.
Kraut, R., Wang, X., Butler, B., Joyce, E., and Burke, M. (under review). Beyond information: Developing the Relationship between the Individual and the Group in Online Communities. Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ)
Burke, M., Hornof, A., Nilsen, E., and Gorman, N (2005). High Cost Banner Blindness: Ads Increase Perceived Workload, Hinder Visual Search, and Are Forgotten. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 12(4), 423-445.
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Burke, M., and Kraut, R. (2008). Taking up the mop: Identifying future Wikipedia administrators. Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI 2008: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Burke, M., and Kraut R. (2008). Mind your p's and q's: When politeness helps and hurts in online communities. Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI 2008: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Collier, B., Burke, M., Kittur, N., and Kraut, R. (2008). Retrospective versus Prospective Evidence for Promotion: The Case of Wikipedia. Academy of Management.
Shklovski, I., Burke M., Kiesler, S., and Kraut, R. (2008) Technology Adoption and Use in New Orleans Following Hurricane Katrina. HCI for emergencies workshop, CHI 2008.
Burke, M., Joyce, E., Kim, T., Anand, V., and Kraut, R. Introductions and Requests: Rhetorical Strategies that Elicit Community Response. Presentation at Interdisciplinary Network of Groups Researchers (INGRoup) 2007.
Torrey, C., Burke, M., Lee, M., Dey, A., Fussell, S., and Kiesler, S., (2007). Approaches to Authority in Online Disaster Relief Communities after Hurricane Katrina. Forthcoming in Atwater, L. and Weisband, S. (Eds.). Leadership at a Distance. Erlbaum, in press.
Burke, M. K. & Hornof, A. J. (2001). The Effect of Animated Banner Advertisements on a Visual Search Task. University of Oregon, Department of CIS Technical Report 02-03, University of Oregon.
Burke, M.K. (2001). The Effect of Animated Banner Advertisements on a Visual Search Task. University of Oregon, Clark Honors College Thesis.
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERISTY (2005 to Present)
Graduate Research Assistant
Advisor: Bob Kraut
Modeled successful interactions in online communities (Wikipedia, discussion groups).
FACEBOOK, INC. (Summer 2008)
Research Intern
Advisor: Cameron Marlow
Modeled newcomer socialization strategies associated with future content contribution to Facebook.
AT&T RESEARCH (Summer 2005)
Research Intern
Advisor: Brian Amento
Evaluated multimodal interfaces for error correction of automatically generated voicemail transcripts.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON (2000 to 2005)
Research Intern
Advisor: Anthony Hornof, with Erik Nilsen
Investigated human attentional capacity for animation concurrent with visual search tasks.
GRAPHICS, VISUALIZATION, USABILITY CENTER: GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Summer 2000)
Research Intern
Advisor: Jessica Hodgins
Analyzed play-balancing techniques in massively multi-player games.
COMPUTER GRAPHICS LAB, BROWN UNIVERSITY (Summer 1999)
Research Intern
Advisor: Nancy Pollard
Developed tools to visualize aspects of motion, such as center-of-mass position and trajectory.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON (Summer 1998)
Programmer
Advisor: Steve Fickas
Designed and implemented Java bots in an online “office hours” environment.
WEB AND MULTIMEDIA DESIGNER (1997 to 2002)
http://www.thoughtcrumbs.com/portfolio
Designed websites for non-profit organizations
Conducted usability testing, card sorting, heuristic evaluation
Composed creative standalone applications and Shockwave movies in Director
Programmed dynamic content with PHP, ColdFusion, MySQL