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I'm a fourth year PhD student in cognitive science and psychology at Indiana University, Bloomington My work explores human behavior in social information environments on the Web. This largely manifests in integrating knowledge of human search and decision-making capacities with large scale data-mining and analysis methods.

My principal research project currently involves data I have crawled from the social music site Last.fm, which I am using to study collaborative tagging and music consumption patterns. Questions we are exploring include social imitation and expertise effects in tagging, whether and how users' tagging decisions are sensitive to the distribution of tags previously assigned to content, and how listening and tagging habits are connected. We are also beginning to explore methods for studying people's movement through the "music space" over time (e.g. are their listening habits broadening or narrowing, do certain artists serve as gateways to others, etc.). Our hope is that this will inform improved recommendation algorithms that are sensitive to the trajectory a user has taken (or wishes to take) in their listening habits, and can ultimately apply to other information domains (e.g. academic paper recommendations).

But that's just the blurb version. Beyond tagging, I'm interested in: big data analysis, web mining, social signaling online, path-following in physical and digital environments, game design, motivational factors in online communities, gamification, recommendation systems, multi-agent simulation, tools for connecting the academic and non-academic world...and plenty of other stuff. If any of that sounds cool to you, too, let's talk about it!

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Works (5)

"Supertagger" behavior in building folksonomies

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM conference on Web science - WebSci '14
2014 | Conference paper
DOI:

10.1145/2615569.2615686

Part of ISBN:

9781450326223

Contributors: Jared Lorince; Sam Zorowitz; Jaimie Murdock; Peter M. Todd
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Path Following in Social Web Search

Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction
2014 | Other
DOI:

10.1007/978-3-319-05579-4_15

ISBN:

978-3-319-05578-7

ISSN:

0302-9743

Contributors: Jared Lorince; Debora Donato; Peter M. Todd
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Can simple social copying heuristics explain tag popularity in a collaborative tagging system?

Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference on - WebSci '13
2013 | Conference paper
DOI:

10.1145/2464464.2464516

Part of ISBN:

9781450318891

Contributors: Jared Lorince; Peter M. Todd
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Heuristica: Designing a serious game for improving decision making

2013 IEEE International Games Innovation Conference (IGIC)
2013-09 | Conference paper
DOI:

10.1109/igic.2013.6659159

Part of ISBN:

978-1-4799-1245-2

Contributors: Gwen Mullinix; Oliver Gray; Juan Colado; Elizabeth Veinott; James Leonard; Elizabeth Lerner Papautsky; Chris Argenta; Marcia Clover; Steven Sickles; Edward Castronova et al.
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When Will Social Norms Persuade Group Members to Drink Less Alcohol?

PsycEXTRA Dataset
Dataset
DOI:

10.1037/e631302010-001

Contributors: Heather J. Smith; Rhonda Balzarini; Jocelyn Berry; Chris Goode; Constance Bravos; Jared Lorince; Ashley Plouffe; Andrea Pella; Greg Grenier
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