Lead architect for the Digital Lot, Brantley describes his work for the Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship. This work would not be possible without his brilliance, creativity, and commitment.
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Predicting likelihood of success in a crowdfunding campaign
Currently, we can predict with 68% accuracy whether a crowdfunding campaign launched on Kickstarter will succeed based on features of the campaign established pre-launch including – the project category, whether or not the campaign has a video uploaded, and how many rewards are offered. We are hoping to get a higher degree of accuracy to better advise campaign creators pre-launch. Check out the recent press coverage in The Guardian and Popular Science.
Oped on The Trifecta of Feedback now posted on Design Observer
The Design Observer just posted my OpEd on The Trifecta of Feedback. If given feedback, first thank, then listen to the feedback, then bucket as keep, reject, or save for later.
DFA Swipesense team delivers outstanding elevator pitch as top WSJ Start Up
This year, DFA Swipesense team was recognized as one of the top ten start-ups by the Wall Street Journal and they continue to impress. Check out Yuri Malina and Mert Iseri delivering their outstanding elevator pitch.
New PhD students to join the lab
This past month, we were thrilled welcomed two new PhD students to the lab.
Emily Harburg joins us from Disney Research where she was working on fascinating research on leadership, design, and the customer experience of waiting in lines at Disney. Dan Rees Lewis joins us from Design for America where he led a highly successful instructional design effort to develop the design and innovation curriculum for extracurricular project based learning.
OpEd Fellowship video released
The OpEd Fellowship video has been released. For those who have heard me talk about this incredible program, here’s an opportunity to watch a video that shows a bit behind the scenes. I am remain immensely grateful for my participation and to our amazing editors, Michelle Weldon and EJ Graff who led us through the storm.
DFA team Swipesense selected as one of the top ten start ups for Wall Street Journal
SwipeSense, is a medical startup founded by two recent Northwestern graduates through the University student group Design for America, has been selected as one of the final 10 contestants in the Wall Street Journal’s documentary, “WSJ Startup of the Year.” Check out their process videos.
CSCW 2014 Workshop Accepted : Structures for Knowledge Co-creation Between Organisations and the Public
I’m thrilled to be helping to lead a workshop at CSCW 2014 examining how social computing technologies have emerged to support innovative new relationships between organisations and the public. We discuss how this work has been inspired by concepts such as collective intelligence, citizen science, citizen journalism and crowdsourcing, diverse types of organisations are aiming to increase engagement with the public, collect localised knowledge, or leverage human cognition and creativity. In supporting these approaches, organisations are often provoked to make their data and processes more open, and to be inclusive of differing motivations and perspectives from inside and outside the organisation. In doing so, they raise new questions for both designers and organisations. For example how are “official‟ and „unofficial‟ information sources combined or hosted, mediated, or considered reliable? Does the role of the professional change through greater involvement of amateurs? How are the motivations of members of the public harnessed for mutual benefit? This workshop brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers to address those questions from different perspectives.
Paper on crowdfunding work to appear at CSCW 2014
Our large scale qualitative study on crowdfunding work, including the specific technological pain points and future opportunities, will appear at CSCW 2014 in Baltimore. The work counters the popular press that tends to downplay the amount of work required to crowdfund and explores the way in which the community share expertise with one another.
Design for America to work with FEMA
I am thrilled to announce that Design for America studios (Cornell, Rice, Baltimore, Yale, RISD – Brown, Vanderbilt, Berkeley, Northwestern, Case Western, Barnard – Columbia, University of Illinois UC, Virginia Tech) will be working with FEMA this coming school year to improve the response to natural disaster.