EurekAlert! – “Northwestern study of analog crews in isolation reveals weak spots for Mission to Mars.”

 The Globe and Mail – “NASA experiments suggest problems lie ahead for astronauts during Mars mission.”

 Science Daily – “Weak spots for Mission to Mars revealed.” 

 The Times of India – “Weak spots for Nasa’s manned Mars mission revealed.”

 New Atlas – “Simulated space journeys to help keep the peace on manned trips to Mars.”

 The Daily Galaxy – “Super Humans – NASA Tackles Perils of Astronaut Mission to Mars: 250 Million-Mile Journey.”

 The Economist Babbage Podcast – “Joker AAAStrounauts.” 

 AAAS Annual Meeting – “Building a Winning Team for Missions to Mars.” 

The Economist  – “The problems of flying to Mars – Astronauts will have to worry about space radiation – and also each other.”

 Tech2 – “NASA developing models to predict conflicts among crew members for manned Mars missions.” 

 Global Science – “Pensiero creativo e problem solving: gli umani sfidano Marte.”

 El Comercio – “Marte | Científicos trabajan en modelo para evitar “fallos psicológicos” en futuros viajes.”

EuropaPress – “Un modelo para predecir fallos psicológicos en el viaje a Marte.”

Electronic Component News – “Mars Mission Gets Help from Predictive Model, Helps NASA Anticipate Conflicts.”

Space.com – “Astronauts Struggle with Finishing Tasks on Mock Space Missions.”

CBC Radio – “It’s like a hall of mirrors: In a spacecraft, personalities work better than others.”

Northwestern News – “Northwestern study of analog crews in isolation reveals weak spots for Mission to Mars.” 

cnBeta.com – “西北大学开展模拟太空旅行计划 帮助宇航员更顺利抵达火星”

DigitalJournal.com – “Space agencies preparing for 3-year round-trip journey to Mars.”

rmf24.pl – “Lot na Marsa będzie jeszcze trudniejszy…”

The Daily Northwestern – “Northwestern professors build model for NASA Mars expedition.” 

 North by Northwestern – “On a mission to Mars, teamwork makes the dream work.”

The Times of India – “Mental health of Mars’ crew to be monitored.”

WBEZ – “Who Can Handle Trip To Mars? Northwestern Helps NASA Predict Strains On Astronauts.”

A My Dream Team paper titled “Who Would You Like to Work With? Use of Individual Characteristics and Social Networks in Team Formation Systems,” was accepted at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI).

In this paper, we conducted a field study where 530 participants used a team formation system to assemble project teams. We describe how users’ traits and social networks influence their teammate searches, teammate choices, and team composition. Our results show that (a) what users initially search for differs from what they finally choose: initially they search for experts and sociable users, but they are ultimately more likely to choose their prior social connections; (b) users’ decisions lead to non- diverse and segregated teams, where most of the expertise and social capital are concentrated in a few teams.

Citation: Diego Gómez-Zará, Matthew Paras, Marlon Twyman, Jacqueline N. Lane, Leslie A. DeChurch, and Noshir S. Contractor. 2019. Who Would You Like to Work With?: Use of Individual Characteristics and Social Networks in Team Formation Systems. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2019), May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland Uk. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300889

Contractor, N. (2019, January). “Avances y proyecciones de Computational Social Sciences”. Presented at the Ponticia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Comunicaciones, Santiago, Chile.

Citation:

Contractor, N. (2019, January). Avances y proyecciones de Computational Social Sciences. Presenter at the Universidad del Desarrollo Facultad de Gobierno, Santiago, Chile.

Citation: Contractor, N. (January 4, 2019). Relational Analytics: Transforming the future of work. Keynote address at the International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci-X), Santiago, Chile.

Diego Gómez-Zará presents, “Using relational event modeling for understanding team formation mechanisms in teams assembled online” at the central winter conference on Network Science, NetSci-X, in Santiago, Chile. This conference brings together leading researchers and innovators to connect, meet and establish interdisciplinary channels for collaboration. From biological and environmental networks, to social, technological and economic networks, NetSci-X 2019 links the Chilean spirit with the fresh outlook of Network Science.

Citation:

Diego Gómez-Zará, Matthew Paras, Aaron Schecter, Leslie A. DeChurch and Noshir S. Contractor. (2019, January). Using relational event modeling for understanding team formation mechanisms in teams assembled online. Paper presented at the International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci-X), Santiago, Chile. 

SONIC summer intern, Cameron DeChurch, was accepted early decision to Duke University. Congratulations!