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.

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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.

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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!

Brennan Antone presents work with Alina Lungeanu and Noshir Contractor at the Complex Networks 2018 Conference in Cambridge, U.K. He spoke about extensions to autologistic actor attribute models for multi-attribute influence processes to better understand modern contraceptive usage in Kenyan villages.