Rosta Farzan

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Journals

Lopez, C., Farzan, R., Lin, Y. (2017). Behind the myths of citizen participation: Identifying sustainability factors of hyper-local information systems. Transactions on Internet Technology.
Farzan, R. and Brusilovsky, P. (2010). Encouraging user participation in a course recommender system: An impact on user behavior. Journal of Computers in Human Behavior, 27(1), 276-284.
Farzan, R. and Brusilovsky P. (2008). AnnotatEd: A Social Navigation and Annotation Service for Web-based Educational Resources. Journal of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM).
He, D., Brusilovsky, P., Ahn, J., Grady, J., Farzan, R., Peng Y., Yang Y., and Rogati, M. (2007). An evaluation of adaptive filtering in the context of realistic task-based information exploration, Information Processing and Management.

Peer Reviewed Conferences

2017

Lopez, C., Farzan, R., and Lin, Y. (2017). Engaging Neighbors: the Double-Edges sword of Mobilization Messaging in Hyper-Local Online Forum. In Proceeding of the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media
Lu, D., Farzan, R., and Lopez, C. (2017). To Go or not to Go! What Influences Newcomers of Hybrid Communities to Participate Offline. In Proceeding of the International Conference on Communities and Technologies
McLaren, B., Farzan, R., Adams, D., Mayer, R. and Forlizzi, J. (2017). Uncovering Gender and Problem Difficulty Effects in Learning with an Educational Game. In Proceeding of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education.
Farzen, R., Ahmed, G., Espinoza, Y., Villarreal, M., and Euley, N. (2017). Welcome New Americans! Investigating the role of hyper-local online communities in integration of immigrants. iConference
Farzan, R., & Jonassaint, C. (2017). Exploring Dynamics of Facebook Health Support Groups: a Leadership Perspective. In Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

2016

Farzan, R., Lu, D., & Lin, Y. R. (2016, July). What Happens Offline Stays Offline?: Examining Sustainability of a Hybrid Social System. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (pp. 261-266). ACM.
Farzan, R., Savage, S., & Saviaga, C. F. (2016, November). Bring on Board New Enthusiasts! A Case Study of Impact of Wikipedia Art+ Feminism Edit-A-Thon Events on Newcomers. In International Conference on Social Informatics (pp. 24-40). Springer International Publishing.
Lu, D., Dugan, C., Farzan, R., Geyer, W. (2016) Let's Stitch Me and You Together! Designing a Photo Co-creation Activity to Stimulate Playfulness in the Workplace. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Lee, M., Farzan, R., and Butler, B. (2016). This Is Not Just a Cafe: Toward Capturing the Dynamics of Urban Places. The CityLab Workshop in conjunction with the AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

2015

Lopez, C., & Farzan, R. (2015). Lend me sugar, I am your neighbor!: a content analysis of online forums for local communities. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Communities and Technologies (pp. 59-67). ACM.
Lopez, C., & Farzan, R. (2015). Exploring the mechanisms behind the assessment of usefulness of restaurant reviews. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Communities and Technologies (pp. 19-27). ACM.
Lu, D., & Farzan, R. (2015). Time to Introduce Myself! Impact of Self-disclosure Timing of Newcomers in Online Discussion Forums. ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci'15.
Champagne, R., Guerra, J., Tsai, C. H., Monahan, J., & Farzan, R. (2015). Fuzziness in LGBT non-profit ICT use. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (p. 30). ACM.
Lu, D., Lu, Y., Jeng, W., Farzan, R., & Lin, Y. R. (2015). Understanding Health Information Intent via Crowdsourcing: Challenges and Opportunities. iConference 2015 Proceedings.
Lu, D., & Farzan, R. (2015). Impact of Self-Disclosure on Newcomers in Online Communities. iConference 2015 Proceedings.
Lopez, C., & Farzan, R. (2015). From Community Networks to Hyper-local Social Media. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 239-242). ACM.
Lu, D., & Farzan, R. (2015). When to Break the Ice: Self-disclosure Strategies for Newcomers in Online Communities. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 163-166). ACM.
Lopez, C., Lin. Y., and Farzan, R. (2015). What makes hyper-local online forums sustainable?. Proceedings of 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2105).

2014

Lopez, C. and Farzan, R. (2014). Designing for neighborhoods: lessons learned from paper-based bulletin boards. CHI'14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. pp. 1963-1968
Lopez, C. and Farzan, R. (2014). Analysis of local online review systems as digital word-of-mouth. Proceedings of the companion publication of the 23rd international conference on World Wide Web companion. pp. 457-462.
Farzan, R. and Han, S. (2014). My friends are here!: why talk to strangers? Proceedings of the companion publication of the 17th ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. pp. 161-164.

2013

Farzan, R. and Kraut R (2013). Wikipedia classroom experiment: bidirectional benefits of students' engagement in online production communities. In proceedings of the ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2013.
Lopez, C., Farzan, R., Sahebi, S., Brusilovsky, P. (2013) What influences the decision to participate in audience-bounded online communities? In proceedings of the iConference 2013. Fort Worth, USA. IDEALS.
Lopez, C., Farzan, R., and Brusilovsky P. (2012). Personalized incremental users. engagement: Driving contributions one step forward. In proceedings of the ACM conference on Supporting Group Work (Group 2012), Sanibel Island, USA. ACM Press.

2012

Farzan, R., Pal, A., Kraut, R. and Konstan, J. (2012). Socializing volunteers in an online community: A field experiment. To appear in proceedings of the ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. New York: ACM Press.
Dabbish, L., Farzan, R., Kraut, R., and Postmes, T. (2012). Fresh faces in the crowd: turnover, identity, and commitment in online groups. To appear in proceedings of the ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. New York, ACM Press.

2011

Pal, A., Farzan, R., Konstan, J., Kraut, R. (2011). Early detection of potential experts in question answering communities. Proceedings of User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. Springer. James Chen best student paper award.
Farzan, R., Dabbish, L., Kraut, R. and Postmes, T. (2011). Increasing commitment to online communities by designing for social presence. Proceeding of the ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. New York, ACM Press.

2010

Farzan, R., DiMicco, J., and Brownholtz, E. (2010). Mobilizing lurkers with a targeted Task. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. AAAI Press.

2009

Farzan, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2009). Social navigation support for information seeking: if you build it, will they come? Proceedings of User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. Springer. James Chen best student paper award.
Farzan, R., DiMicco, J., and Brownholtz E. (2009). A member-maintained content promotion system. Proceedings of the ACM conference on Supporting Group Work. New York, ACM Press.

2008

Farzan R., and Brusilovsky P. Where did the Researchers Go? Supporting Social Navigation at a Large Academic Conference. Hypertext 2008.
Farzan, R., DiMicco, J., Millen, D. R, Brownholtz, B., Dugan, C., and Geyer, W., R. When the experiment is over: Deploying an incentive system to all the users. Persuasive Technology 2008.
Farzan, R., DiMicco, J., Brownholtz, B., Dugan, C., Geyer, W., and Millen, D. R. Results from deploying a participation incentive mechanism within the enterprise. CHI 2008.

2007

Freyne, J., Farzan, R., and Coyle, M. (2007). Toward the exploitation of social access patterns for recommendation. RecSys 2007.
Farzan, R., Coyle, M., Freyne, J., Brusilovsky, P., and Smyth, P. (2007). ASSIST: Adaptive Social Support for Information Space Traversal. Hypertext 2007.
Freyne J., Farzan R., Brusilovsky P., Smyth B., and Coyle M. (2007). Collecting Community Wisdom: Integrating Social Search & Social Navigation. In Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.

2006

Bateman S., Farzan R., Brusilovsky P., and McCalla G. (2006) OATS: The Open Annotation and Tagging System. In Proceedings 3rd annual e-learning conference on Intelligent Interactive Learning Object Repositories.
Farzan R. & Brusilovsky P. (2006). AnnotatEd: A Social Navigation and Annotation Service for Web-based Educational Resources. In Proceedings of E-Learn 2006--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education.Winner of outstanding paper award.
Mertens R., Farzan R.,and Brusilovsky P. (2006) Social Navigation in Web Lectures. In proceedings of Seventeenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia(short paper).
Farzan R. & Brusilovsky P. (2006). Social Navigation Support in a Course Recommendation System. In proceedings of 4th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems. Winner of James Chen best student paper award.

2005

Gavrilova T., Farzan R. & Brusilovsky P. (2005). One Practical Algorithm of Creating Teaching Ontologies. In proceedings of Network Based Education.
Farzan, R. & Brusilovsky P. (2005). Social Navigation Support through Annotation-Based Group Modeling. In proceedings of 10th International Conference on User Modeling.
Brusilovsky P., Farzan R. & Ahn J. (2005). Comprehensive Personalized Information Access in an Educational Digital Library. In proceedings of Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.

2004

Brusilovsky, P., Chavan, G., Farzan, R. (2004). Social Adaptive Navigation Support for Open Corpus Electronic Textbooks - In: P.De Bra (ed.) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH'2004), Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Farzan, R. (2004). Adaptive Socio-Recommender System for Open-Corpus E-Learning - In Doctoral Consortium of the Third International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH'2004), Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Workshops

2007

Farzan, R. and Brusilovsky P.(2007). Community based conference navigator. SociUM: Adaptation and Personalization in Social Systems: Groups, Teams, Communities workshop, in conjunction with UM.07.
Brusilovsky, P., Ahn J., and Farzan R. (2007). Accessing educational digital libraries through adaptive information visualization. Workshop on Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Digital Libraries in conjunction with the UM.07

2006

Brusilovsky P., Farzan R., and Ahn J. (2006). Layered Evaluation of Adaptive Search. In Proceedings of Workshop on Evaluating Exploratory Search Systems. At SIGIR 2006.
Ahn J., Farzan R., Brusilovsky P. (2006). A Two-Level Adaptive Visualization for Information Access to Open-Corpus Educational Resources. In proceedings of Workshop on Social Navigation and Community-Based Adaptation Technologies. At 4th International Conference on Adpative Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems.

2005

Farzan R. & Brusilovsky P. (2005). Social Navigation Support in E-Learning: What are the Real Footprints? In proceedings of Third Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization (ITWP '05). At Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Ahn J., Brusilovsky P. & Farzan R. (2005). Investigating Users' Needs and Behaviors for Social Search. In proceedings of Workshop on New Technologies for Personalized Information Access (PIA 2005). At 10th International Conference on User Modeling.

Theses

Farzan, R. (2009). PhD Dissertation. A Study of Social Navigation Support under different Situational and Personal Factors
Farzan, R. (2003). MSc Thesis: ACUT: Adaptive Collaborative Unix Tutorial
Farzan, R. (1999). Undergraduate Thesis: Implementation of a RISC Processor on FPGA chip. Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran