Kurt Luther

Papers

You can also find my papers on Google Scholar and in the ACM Digital Library.

2012

• A. Bruckman, K. Luther, and C. Fiesler. (In press). “When Should We Use Real Names in Published Accounts of Internet Research?” To appear in Research Confidential, Second Edition (E. Hargittai, editor).
• P. André, M. Bernstein, and K. Luther. (In press). “Who Gives A Tweet: Evaluating Microblog Content Value.” To appear in CSCW ’12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. (Best Paper Award honorable mention) (top 5% of submissions)

2011

• K. Luther, and A. Bruckman. (September/October 2011). “Leadership and Success Factors in Online Creative Collaboration.” IEEE Potentials 30:5, 27–32. (Invited submission)
• K. Luther. (2011). “Fast, Accurate, and Brilliant: Realizing the Potential of Crowdsourcing and Human Computation.” Presented at the CHI ’11 Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Human Computation, Vancouver, Canada.

2010

• K. Luther, K. Caine, K. Ziegler, and A. Bruckman. (2010). “Why It Works (When It Works): Success Factors in Online Creative Collaboration.” In GROUP ’10: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work, pp. 1–10, New York: ACM Press. (36% acceptance rate)
• K. Luther, N. Diakopoulos, and A. Bruckman. (2010). “Edits & Credits: Exploring Integration and Attribution in Online Creative Collaboration.” In CHI ’10 (alt.chi): Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 2823–2832, New York: ACM Press. (Invited submission)
• P. André, m.c. schraefel, A. Dix, R.W. White, M. Bernstein, and K. Luther. (2010). “Designing for Schadenfreude (or, how to express well-being and see if you're boring people).” Presented at the CHI ’10 Workshop on Microblogging: What and How Can We Learn From It?, Atlanta, Ga.
• K. Luther and A. Bruckman. (2010). “Flash Collabs: Collaborative Innovation Networks in Online Communities of Animators.” Presented at the COINs ’09 Conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks, Savannah, Ga.
• K. Luther. (2010). “Supporting and Transforming Leadership in Online Creative Collaboration.” Presented at the CHI ’10 Doctoral Consortium, Atlanta, Ga. (26% acceptance rate)

2009

• B. Magerko, W. Manzoul, M. Riedl, A. Baumer, D. Fuller, K. Luther, and C. Pearce. (2009). “An Empirical Study of Cognition and Theatrical Improvisation.” In C&C ’09: Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, pp. 117–126, New York: ACM Press. (24% acceptance rate)
• K. Luther, S. Counts, K.B. Stecher, A. Hoff, and P. Johns. (2009). “Pathfinder: An Online Collaboration Environment for Citizen Scientists.” In CHI ’09: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 239–248, New York: ACM Press. (25% acceptance rate)
• M. Bernstein, P. André, K. Luther, E.T. Solovey, E.S. Poole, S.A. Paul, S.K. Kane, and J. Grudin. (2009). “CHIstory.” In CHI ’09: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 3493–3494, New York: ACM Press. (Most Entertaining Video Award)
• D.A. Shamma, D. Perkel, and K. Luther. (2009). “Understanding the Creative Conversation: Modeling to Engagement.” In C&C ’09: Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, pp. 491–492, New York: ACM Press.
• K. Luther, K. Ziegler, K.E. Caine, and A. Bruckman. (2009). “Predicting Successful Completion of Online Collaborative Animation Projects.” In C&C ’09: Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, pp. 391–392, New York: ACM Press.
• K. Luther, M. Flaschen, A. Forte, C. Jordan, and A. Bruckman. (2009). “Provelt: A New Tool for Supporting Citation in MediaWiki.” In WikiSym ’09: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, no. 43, New York: ACM Press.
• K. Luther. (2009). “Supporting and Transforming Leadership in Online Creative Collaboration.” Presented at the GROUP ’09 Doctoral Consortium, Sanibel Island, Fla.

2008

• K. Luther, and A. Bruckman. (2008). “Leadership in Online Creative Collaboration.” In CSCW ’08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, pp. 343–352, New York: ACM Press. (23% acceptance rate)
• J.B. Ellis, K. Luther, K. Bessiere, and W.A. Kellogg. (2008). “Games for Virtual Team Building.” In DIS ’08: Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, pp. 295–304, New York: ACM Press. (34% acceptance rate)
• N. Diakopoulos, K. Luther, and I. Essa. (2008). “Audio Puzzler: Piecing Together Time-Stamped Speech Transcripts with a Puzzle Game.” In MM ’08: Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pp. 865–868, New York: ACM Press. (18% acceptance rate)
• Y. Kang, J. Stasko, K. Luther, A. Ravi, and Y. Xu. (2008). “RevisiTour: Enriching the Tourism Experience with User-Generated Content.” In ENTER ’08: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism, pp. 59–69, Vienna: Springer.
• S. Yardi, K. Luther, N. Diakopoulos, and A. Bruckman. (2008). “Opening the Black Box: Four Views of Transparency in Remix Culture.” Presented at the CSCW ’08 Workshop on Tinkering, Tailoring, & Mashing: The Social and Collaborative Practices of the Read-Write Web, San Diego, Calif.
• J.B. Ellis, K. Luther, K. Bessiere, and W.A. Kellogg. (2008). “Games for Virtual Team Building.” Presented at the CSCW ’08 Workshop on Supporting Distributed Team Work, San Diego, Calif.

2007

• N. Diakopoulos, K. Luther, Y.“E.” Medynskiy, and I. Essa. (2007). “The Evolution of Authorship in a Remix Society.” In Hypertext ’07: Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, pp. 133–136, New York: ACM Press. (34% acceptance rate)
• K. Luther and N. Diakopoulos. (2007). “Distributed Creativity.” Presented at the C&C ’07 Workshop on Supporting Creative Acts Beyond Dissemination, Washington, D.C.
• N. Diakopoulos, K. Luther, Y.“E.” Medynskiy, and I. Essa. (2007). “Remixing Authorship: Reconfiguring the Author in Online Video Remix Culture.” Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Report GIT-IC-07-05.