I am a graduating Ph.D. student at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon University. My advisors are Scott Hudson and Robert Kraut.
I am broadly interested in Human-Computer Interaction. My research focuses on understanding, designing and developing technologies that utilize economic and social incentives to enable people to communicate and interact in ways that are efficient and socially optimal. My dissertation topic is on using economic markets to support interpersonal information exchange. Currently, I am exploring how monetary payments affect question and answer (Q&A) communities. I am also interested in designing technologies that encourage prosocial behavior (prosocial computing)
Prior to graduate school, I spent some time conducting research in the domain of ambient and peripheral displays. I studied the use of public, interactive displays at a cafe with Elizabeth Churchill. Before that, I studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley (Go Bears!). While I was there, I worked with Jennifer Mankoff and Anind Dey, who are both at HCII now, on the evaluation of ambient and peripheral displays.
I have had the opportunity to work with many wonderful people. My recent collaborators are: Roberto Weber, Laura Dabbish, Scott Counts, Ian Li, Jennifer Lai, Karen Tang and Ken Wood.
Application Materials
Publications
Why Pay: Exploring How Financial Incentives are Used for Question & Answer
Gary Hsieh, Robert E. Kraut, Scott E. Hudson.
CHI 2010: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (to appear)
Don’t Ask Me: Designing Social Q&A Services
Gary Hsieh.
Crossroads
mimir: A Market-Based Real-Time Question and Answer Service
Gary Hsieh and Scott Counts.
CHI 2009: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Evaluating Peripheral Displays
Tara Matthews, Gary Hsieh and Jennifer Mankoff.
Book chapter in Awareness Systems: Advances in Theory, Methodology and Design
Can Markets Help?: Applying Market Mechanisms to Improve Synchronous Communication
Gary Hsieh, Robert E. Kraut, Scott E. Hudson and Roberto Weber.
CSCW 2008: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Using Visualization to Increase Compliance in Experience Sampling
Gary Hsieh, Ian Li, Anind Dey, Jodi Forlizzi and Scott E. Hudson.
UBICOMP 2008: International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Using Tags to Assist Near-Synchronous Communication
Gary Hsieh, Scott E. Hudson, Robert E. Kraut and Jennifer Lai.
CHI 2008: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Field Deployment of IMBuddy: A Study of Privacy Control and Feedback Mechanism for Contextual IM
Gary Hsieh, Karen P. Tang, Wai Y. Low and Jason I. Hong.
UBICOMP 2007: International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Prioritization in Computer-Mediated Communication: Influences of Urgency, Notification, and Identity
Laura Dabbish, Gary Hsieh, Scott E. Hudson and Robert E. Kraut.
AOM 2007: Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings
User-Controllable Security and Privacy For Pervasive Computing
Jason Cornwell, Ian Fette, Gary Hsieh et al.
HotMobile 2007: IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
Peripheral Display of Digital Handwritten Notes
Gary Hsieh, Ken Wood and Abigail Sellen.
CHI 2006: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Café Life in the Digital Age: Augmenting Information Flow in a café-work-entertainment Space
Elizabeth Churchill, Les Nelson and Gary Hsieh.
CHI 2006: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
DanceAlong: Supporting Positive Social Exchange and Exercise for the Elderly Through Dance
Pedram Keyani, Gary hsieh, Bilge Mutlu, Matthew Easterday and Jodi Forlizzi.
CHI 2005: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A Comparison of Two Peripheral Displays for Monitoring Email: Measuring Usability, Awareness, and Distraction
Gary Hsieh and Jennifer Mankoff.
Berkeley EECS Technical Report
Heuristic evaluation of ambient displays
Jennifer Mankoff, Anind K. Dey, Gary Hsieh et al.
CHI 2003: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Using Low-Cost Sensing to Support Nutritional Awareness
Jennifer Mankoff, Gary Hsieh, Ho C. Hung, Sharon Lee and Elizabeth Nitao.
UBICOMP 2002: International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
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