CALL FOR PAPERS

Venue

A workshop at the WWW 2016 Conference, Montreal, Canada

Workshop Date

Tuesday April 12th, 2016. 9:00AM - 12:30PM.

Room

520E, Palais des congrès de Montréal, 159 St. Antoine St W, Montréal, QC H2Z 1H2. [Map]

Cocktails

6PM at Le Mal Nécessaire [Link] 1106B Saint Laurent Boulevard. [8 minute walk from WWW venue]

Schedule

These are the accepted papers (in no particular order) Speakers have 22 minutes plus 8 for questions / transitions.

Time	Authors	Title
9:00	Eytan Bakshy, Drew Dimmery and John Myles White	Design-based Adaptive experimentation
9:30	Andrew Mao	TurkServer
10:00	Kevin Munger	Tweetment Effects on the Tweeted: Social Norm Promotion on Online Harassers
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Greg Stoddard and Maria Glenski	Guess the Karma: Predicting popularity on Reddit
11:30	Dan Goldstein, Jake Hofman, and Pablo Barrio	A crowdsourced system to help people understand numbers in the news
12:00	Ming Yin, Mary Gray, Siddharth Suri, and Jennifer Wortman Vaughan	The Communication Network Within the Crowd.
12:30	Workshop Ends

Overview

The World Wide Web has resulted in new and unanticipated avenues for conducting large-scale behavioral experiments. Crowdsourcing sites like Amazon Mechanical Turk, CrowdFlower, Upwork, TaskRabbit, among others, have given researchers access to a large participant pool that operates around the clock. As a result, behavioral researchers in academia have turned to crowdsourcing sites in large numbers. Moreover, websites like eBay, Yelp and Reddit have become places where researchers can conduct field experiments. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Yahoo! conduct hundreds of randomized experiments on a daily basis. We may be rapidly reaching a point where most behavioral experiments will be done online.

The main purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers conducting behavioral experiments online to share new results, methods and best practices.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to:

• Crowdsourcing
• Online behavioral experiments
• Online field experiments
• Online natural or quasi-experiments
• Online surveys
• Human computation

Organizing Committee

• Siddharth Suri, Microsoft Research NYC
• Winter A. Mason, Facebook
• Daniel G. Goldstein, Microsoft Research NYC & London Business School

Program Committee

• Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
• Pavel Atanasov, Polly Portfolio
• Eytan Bakshy, Facebook
• Laura Brandimarte, Carnegie Mellon University
• Jesse J. Chandler, Mathematica
• Yiling Chen, Harvard University
• Nicolas Della Penna, Australian National University
• Dean Eckles, MIT Sloan
• Alice Gao, University of British Columbia
• Sam Gosling, University of Texas at Austin
• John Horton, NYU Stern
• Eric Johnson, Columbia University
• Brian Keegan, Northeastern University
• Peter Krafft, MIT
• Andrew Mao, Microsoft Research
• Akitaka Matsuo, Nuffield College, Oxford University
• Gabriele Paolacci, Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Eyal Pe'er, Bar-Ilan University
• Ragan Petrie, George Mason University
• Alexander Peysakhovich, Facebook
• David Rand, Yale Unviersity
• David Rothschild, Microsoft Research
• Sven Seuken, University of Zurich
• Sean Taylor, Facebook
• Florian Teschner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Microsoft Research
• Jens Witkowski, ETH Zurich
• Georgios Zervas, Boston University School of Management
• Peter Zubcsek, University of Florida Warrington College of Business