Hi! I am Paul André, a postdoc at CMU, working in social computing and crowdsourcing.
I am exploring complex and creative uses of the crowd, working with Niki Kittur and Bob Kraut. My thesis from the University of Southampton focused on social and affective computing: examining physical practices in the workplace and asking how we might use digital tools to augment or enrich those practices, (see projects on serendipity, well-being, and reminiscence).
I have been fortunate enough to spend four enjoyable internships at Microsoft Research, where my proudest achievement was receiving the CHI Golden Mouse Award for the co-authored parody video CHIstory, which largely involved putting Jonathan Grudin's head in a jar.
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Happenings
Who Gives a Tweet accepted to CSCW 2012, with an Honorable Mention award. Written up at The Atlantic and CMU.Co-organizing CrowdCamp workshop at CHI 2012: looking forward to your submissions.
Publicity Co-Chair for UIST 2012 and 2013. So, y'know, come to UIST.
August: visiting/talking at HCOMP, UC Berkeley, Adobe.
Our 4chan paper won Best Paper at ICWSM 2011 (thanks to everyone who voted!) and is on Slate, HackerNews, Reddit, Rhizome, Waxy and Metafilter.
Who Gives A Tweet was featured on TechCrunch, Mashable, and CNN.
Co-chair of Madness for CHI 2011 and 2012.
Recent Publications
Who Gives a Tweet? Evaluating Microblog ContentAndré, P., Bernstein, M., and Luther, K.
CSCW 2012 (Honorable Mention Award)
CrowdWeaver: Visually managing complex crowd work
Kittur, A., Khamkar, S., André, P., and Kraut, R. E.
CSCW 2012
4chan and /b/: An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community
Bernstein, M.S., Monroy-Hernández, A., Harry, D., André, P., Panovich, K. and Vargas, G.
ICWSM 2011 (Best Paper Award)