The
THEMIS.COG project is aimed at Theoretical and Empirical Modeling of Identity and Sentiments in Collaborative Groups. THEMIS.COG provides new theoretical insights into the dynamics of self-organized collaborations, in which people come together to work on a common problem, without prompting by a third party. Understanding the social forces behind self-organized collaboration is increasingly important in today's society. Technological and social innovations are increasingly generated through informal, distributed processes of collaboration, rather than in formal, hierarchical organizations. Our work uses a data-driven approach to explore the social and psychological mechanisms that motivate self-organized collaborations and determine their likelihood of success or failure, focusing on the example of open, collaborative software development in online collaborative networks (OCNs) like
GitHub.
Team
- Jesse Hoey (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Mei Nagappan (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Kimberly B. Rogers (Dartmouth College, USA)
- Tobias Schroeder (Potsdam Univ. of Applied Sciences, Germany)
- Nikolas Zoeller (PhD, Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
- Jonathan Morgan (Postdoc, Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
- Hong-Mao Li (Masters, Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
- Neda Paryab (PhD, University of Waterloo)
- Deepak Rishi (Masters, University of Waterloo)
- Yuwei Jiao (Masters, University of Waterloo)
- Alexander Sachs (Masters, University of Waterloo)
- Rahul Iyer (Masters, University of Waterloo)
- Gautam Kumar (Masters, University of Waterloo)
- Nalin de Zoysa (Masters, University of Waterloo)
- Moojan Ghafurian (Postdoc, University of Waterloo)
- Ivan Kobyzev (Postdoc, University of Waterloo)
- Jun Zhao (Postdoc, Dartmouth College, USA)
- Antonio Sirianni (Postdoc, Dartmouth College, USA)
- Lena Chen (Undergraduate, Dartmouth College, USA)
- Andrea Sedlacek (Undergraduate, Dartmouth College, USA)
- Hayley Piper (Undergraduate, Dartmouth College, USA)
- Yliana Beck (Undergraduate, Dartmouth College, USA)
- Cayla Plotch (Undergraduate, Dartmouth College, USA)
- Annie Sherrill (Undergraduate, Dartmouth College, USA)
Publications
- Neda Paryab, Alexander Sachs, Andrew Li, Meiyappan Nagappan and Jesse Hoey. Relating Values and Social Network Structure. International Conference on Computational Social Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2019.
- Jonathan H. Morgan, Jun Zhao, Andrea Sedlacek, Lena Chen, Hayley Piper, Yliana Beck, Kimberly B. Rogers, Jesse Hoey, and Tobias Schroeder. Modeling the Culture of Online Collaborative Groups with Affect Control Theory. Proceedings of the Social Simulation Conference, Mainz, Germany, 2019.
- Jesse Hoey, Zahra Sheihkbahaee, and Neil J. MacKinnon. Deliberative and Affective Reasoning: a Bayesian Dual-Process Model. Proceedings of the Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) workshop on Social Emotions - Theories and Models, Cambridge, UK, September, 2019.
- Jesse Hoey, Tobias Schroeder, Jonathan H. Morgan, Kimberly B. Rogers, Deepak Rishi, and Meiyappan Nagappan. Artificial Intelligence and Social Simulation: Studying Group Dynamics on a Massive Scale. Small Group Research, 49, 6, December, 2018.
- Jesse Hoey, Tobias Schroeder, Jonathan H. Morgan, Kimberly B. Rogers, and Meiyappan Nagappan. Affective Dynamics and Control in Group Processes. Proceedings of ICMI workshop on Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology, Denver, Colorado, 2018.
- Wasif Khan and Jesse Hoey. How Different Identities Affect Cooperation. Proceedings of the Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, San Antonio, Texas, 2017.
- Deepak Rishi, Jesse Hoey, Meiyappan Nagappan, Kimberly B. Rogers and Tobias Schroeder. Emotion and Interaction Processes in a Collaborative Online Network. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Social Science, Chicago, Illinois, 2018.
Two paper awards in 2017:
- American Sociological Association Section on Social Psychology, Outstanding Recent Contribution in Social Psychology Award.
- American Sociological Association Section on Mathematical Sociology, Outstanding Article Publication Award.
Both awards are for the paper: Tobias Schroeder, Jesse Hoey, and Kimberly B. Rogers. "Modeling Dynamic Identities and Uncertainty in Social Interactions: Bayesian Affect Control Theory."
American Sociological Review 81(4): 828-855, 2016. This paper describes the theoretical basis of the Themis.Cog project.
Invited Talks
Conference talks
Poster Presentations
- Yliana Beck, Hayley Piper, Jun Zhao, and Kimberly B. Rogers. Modeling Identity and Sentiments in Collaborative Groups. Wetterhahn Science Symposium, Hanover, New Hampshire, 2019.
- Deepak Rishi, Jesse Hoey, Meiyappan Nagappan, Kimberly B. Rogers and Tobias Schroeder. Emotion and Interaction Processes in a Collaborative Online Network. International Conference on Computational Social Science, Chicago, Illinois, 2018.