Lab Director, Noshir Contractor, presented on a panel titled Issues of Social Media and Social Networks for the Communication of Science Related to Contentious Societal Issues at the National Academies of Science’s Committee on the Science of Science Communication: A Research Agenda in Washington DC on February 24th, 2016.… Read the rest
Lab Director, Noshir Contractor delivered a talk entitled “Team Science for the 21st Century” as an invited speaker at the 3rd Kavli Symposium on Science Journalism in Washington DC on February 15th, 2016.
Full Citation:
Contractor, N. (February 15, 2016). Team Science for the 21st Century.… Read the rest
Lab Director, Noshir Contractor delivered a talk entitled “Leveraging Computational Social Science to address Grand Societal Challenges” as an invited member of the Lambda Pi Eta Choice Scholar Lecture Series at the University of California Santa Barbara on March 4th, 2016.… Read the rest
31212D Charles M. Macal, (GSS) Director, Center for Complex Adaptive Agent Sys
On February 23r, 2016, Charles “Chick” Macal visited SONIC Lab to present “Simulating Chicago (and Everyone in It)” as part of the SONIC Speaker Series. Dr. Macal’s full abstract and presentation can be viewed below.
Abstract:
chiSIM, the Chicago Social Interaction Model, is an agent-based model of people and places in Chicago along with the daily activities in which residents engage.… Read the rest
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Emily DeMarco of Inside Science reports that researchers from the the University of Delaware are fitting Delaware Bay tiger sharks with devices to track them during their southward migration. These researchers are interested in, not just where they go, but how the sharks interact with each other and other animals during their long swim.
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Adam Pearce and Dorothy Gambrell of Bloomberg Buisiness scanned data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 American Community Survey to maps the most common professional pairings across 3.5 million households. Their interactive highlights the five most common occupation/relationship matchups as well as the top male-male and female-female job matchups for each occupation within 435 professional silos.… Read the rest
“An illustration of the relational event model to analyze group interaction processes” by lab members Noshir Contractor and Aaron Schecter and collaborators Andrew Pilny and Marshall Scott Poole was accepted for publication in the upcoming issue of Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice.… Read the rest
Along with collaborators from Georgia Tech, Noshir Contractor, Eric Forbush, Ivan Hernandez, and Marlon Twyman presented posters for the INERTIA, CREWS, and SCALE projects at NASA’s 2016 Human Research Program Investigator’s Workshop in Galveston, TX on February 9th, 2016.… Read the rest
Along with collaborators Cheng Zhang, Chee Wei Phang, Ximeng Wang, and Yunjie Xu at Fudan University and Xiaohua Zeng at College of City University of Hong Kong, Noshir’s and Yun’s article “Circadian Rhythms in Socializing Propensity” was published in PLOS One on September 09, 2015.
Abstract: Using large-scale interaction data from a virtual world, we show that people’s propensity to socialize (forming new social connections) varies by hour of the day.… Read the rest
Lab Director, Noshir Contractor participated in the closing panel, “Reflections: Lessons learned,” at the 22nd Annual Organization Science Winter Conference: Innovations & Organizations on February 7th, 2016 alongside Natalya Vinokurova (Wharton), Todd Zenger (University of Utah), Martin Schulz (British Columbia at Vancouver).… Read the rest