Shelly Farnham, Researcher, Microsoft Research, Social Computing Group.
Shelly Farnham is a researcher in the Social Computing Group at Microsoft Research, where she studies computer-mediated social interactions. Recent projects include tools that help people find each other, communicate, and share in the context of implicit, automated social networks: Personal Map, Connections, Point to Point, and Wallop. She earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology at the University of Washington, where she studied the interplay between the self-concept, social environments, and behavior.
Danyel Fisher, Researcher, Microsoft Research, Community Technologies Group.
Danyel Fisher’s general research focuses on the ways that people collaborate with each other, and maintain their networks through electronic means. His recent dissertation project explores the potential for increasing end-user awareness of social and temporal structures in everyday collaboration through use of a network analysis and visualization tool, Soylent. The goal of Soylent is to help people coordinate their work by providing them with ways to see how their work is connected to that of their colleagues.
David W. McDonald, Assistant Professor, The Information School, University of Washington.
David McDonald is an Assistant Professor Professor at University of Washington. His research interests include computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), human-computer interaction (HCI), system design, software architecture, software engineering, ethnographic study, and the social analysis of technology. Recent projects explore the use of social network information in expertise recommender systems.