Noshir Contractor presented at the University of Buffalo’s Virtual Brown Bag Series and Global HR Forum
Noshir Contractor recently presented at the Virtual Brown Bag Series at the University of Buffalo and the Global HR Forum.
- At the Virtual Brown Bag Series, his presentation titled “Using Digital Traces to Leverage Network Insights During COVID-19 Today – and in Space in the Future” featured some of our latest works on digital traces and how we can gain network insights from these data.
- At the Global HR Forum (글로벌인재포럼) 2020, Noshir Contractor was one of the panelists during the “Big Data and the Future of Human Resources Management” session. Other speakers in the session include Sidney Yang (CEO, Heartcount), Heather Whiteman (Fellow, Future Workplace), and Eun Jinki (Partner, HR Strategy, re:BOX Consulting).
- More details about the event can be found here: https://www.ghrforum.org/program/program_03.html?sMenu=m3…
Citation:
Contractor, N. (2020, November). Using Digital Traces to Leverage Network Insights During COVID-19 Today – and in Space in the Future. Speaker at the Virtual Brown Bag Series Department of Organization and Human Resources, School of Management, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
Noshir Presenting at NCA 2020 Tomorrow!
Tomorrow (11/20), Noshir Contractor will be presenting at the National Communication Association (NCA) Convention. He will discuss topics surrounding AI and teams as part of a panel titled Team Communication Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
Other speakers in the panel include:
- Brooke Foucault Welles from Northeastern University
- Javier Garcia from US CCDC Army Research Laboratory
- Nina Lauharatanahirun from University of Pennsylvania and US CCDC Army Research Laboratory
- Andrew Gambino from Penn State University
- Christoph Riedl from Northeastern University
- Leslide DeChurch from Northwestern University
More details on the panel can be found below:
Diego Presenting at the National Communication Association (NCA) Convention 2020
Our gradaute student Diego Gomez-Zara is going to present his research on team formation at the upcoming National Communication Association (NCA) Convention. The 106th Annual NCA Convention will be fully virtual and will cover topics surroounding Communication at the Crossroads. Diego’s presentation will be live from 7-9AM CST and is part of the Information Seeking, Impressions, and Technology.
More information about the presentation can be found here: https://ww4.aievolution.com/nca2001/index.cfm?do=ev.viewEv&ev=11014
Title: Do I Know You? The Effects of Offline Social Capital on Self-Assembled Teams Online
Abstract: This study investigates how individuals’ offline social capital affects the formation of teams in online contexts. We conducted a study with 854 participants who assembled teams using an online platform developed for this study and examined how they sent invitations to assemble teams to others, as well as their responses to others’ invitations. Through a family of statistical models for analyzing social network data, ERGMs, the result suggests that participants’ prior offline relationships have strong effects on the likelihood of being invited and accepted in a team. We found that the strength of offline relationships, the number of weak and strong ties, and leadership experience influenced the processes of team formation online. This study provides empirical support for social capital theories that explain how teams emerge online.
Citation: Gómez-Zará, D., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. Do I Know You? The Effects of Offline Social Capital on Self-Assembled Teams Online. Accepted at the NCA 106th Annual Convention.
Niloufar presenting at INFORMS 2020
Our graduate student, Niloufar Izadinia, presented at the 2020 Virtual INFORMS Annual Meeting today (11/13). Her presentation titled Optimization-based Metrics Of Multilevel Performance In Multiteam Systems will be available for the next three months.
More Event Details: http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/annual2020/schedule/
Below please find the abstract and link to the presentation.
Abstract: Members in Multiteam system (MTS) have to negotiate making decisions that optimize their individual performance vis a vis the performance of their team and the MTS. Further, the performance of an individual or a team is constrained by decisions made by others with whom they are independent. Organizational research has generally not accounted for these interdependencies when measuring performance, In this study, we develop optimization-based metrics for assessing the performance of individuals, teams, and MTS that take into account these constraints. We demonstrate that our metrics are valid, reliable, and superior to existing metrics as predictors and outcomes of team states and processes.
Link to Presentation: https://cattendee.abstractsonline.com/meeting/9022/Session/3435
Note: If you’re not a registered for the annual meeting, you’ll still be able to access the event and watch Niloufar’s presentation by creating an account.
Watch Noshir Contractor’s SIOP 2020 and MORS Brownbag Talk
A few months ago, Noshir Contractor presented at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP 2020) as well as at the Management and Organizations (MORS) Brownbag Series. His talk is on (Re-)pairing Teams for the Moon, and it is based on our NASA CREWS project. Check out a recording of the talk here:
- SIOP 2020 Talk: https://bit.ly/2GnfNIz
- MORS Brownbag Series: https://bit.ly/35UYyHm
Citation:
- Contractor, N. (2020, May). (Re-)pairing Teams for the Moon. Speaker at MORS Brownbag Series, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
- Antonne, B., DeChurch, L. A., Bell, S., & Contractor, N. S. (2020, April 21-25). Re-Pairing Teams for Long-Duration Space Exploration. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) 2020, Virtual Conference.
Noshir and Leslie will be delivering the Welcome Plenary at INGroup 2020
Upcoming NASA HRP IWS 2020 presentations
Paper by Yun Huang, Anup Sawant, and Noshir Contractor titled “Enabling teams to self-assemble: the my dream team tool” was presented at the 5th Annual International Science of Team Science (SciTS) Conference in Austin, TX on August 8, 2014
Paper by Yun Huang, Anup Sawant, and Noshir Contractor titled “Enabling teams to self-assemble: the my dream team tool” was presented at the 5th Annual International Science of Team Science (SciTS) Conference in Austin, TX on August 8, 2014
Project by Anup Sawant, Harshad Gado, and Noshir Contractor titled “VIVO team builder based on linked open data conforming to the VIVO ontology” was presented at the 5th Annual International Science of Team Science (SciTS) Conference in Austin, TX on August 7, 2014
Project by Anup Sawant, Harshad Gado, and Noshir Contractor titled “VIVO team builder based on linked open data conforming to the VIVO ontology” was presented at the 5th Annual International Science of Team Science (SciTS) Conference in Austin, TX on August 7, 2014