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- affiliation: Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA
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2020 – today
- 2024
- [j33]Jie Ren, Hang Dong
, Ales Popovic, Gaurav Sabnis, Jeffrey Nickerson
Digital platforms in the news industry: how social media platforms impact traditional media news viewership. Eur. J. Inf. Syst. 33(1): 1-18 (2024) - [c83]Sitong Wang
ReelFramer: Human-AI Co-Creation for News-to-Video Translation. CHI 2024: 169:1-169:20 - [c82]Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Aron Lindberg, Stefan Seidel, Jeffrey S. Saltz:
Introduction to the Minitrack on AI, Organizing, and Management. HICSS 2024: 5784-5785 - 2023
- [j32]Germán Gonzalo Creamer
Hybrid Human and Machine Learning Algorithms to Forecast the European Stock Market. Complex. 2023: 5847887:1-5847887:20 (2023) - [j31]Lei (Nico) Zheng
Stigmergy in Open Collaboration: An Empirical Investigation Based on Wikipedia. J. Manag. Inf. Syst. 40(3): 983-1008 (2023) - [c81]Savvas Petridis
AngleKindling: Supporting Journalistic Angle Ideation with Large Language Models. CHI 2023: 225:1-225:16 - [c80]Jeffrey Nickerson, Jeffrey S. Saltz, Stefan Seidel, Aron Lindberg:
Introduction to the Minitrack on AI, Organizing, and Management. HICSS 2023: 5241 - [i6]Sitong Wang, Samia Menon, Tao Long, Keren Henderson
ReelFramer: Co-creating News Reels on Social Media with Generative AI. CoRR abs/2304.09653 (2023) - 2022
- [j30]Hang Dong
How are social and mass media different in relation to the stock market? A study on topic coverage and predictive value. Inf. Manag. 59(2): 103588 (2022) - [c79]Stefan Seidel, Nicholas Berente, Jeffrey Nickerson, Gregory Yepes:
Designing the Metaverse. HICSS 2022: 1-10 - [c78]Stefan Seidel, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Jeffrey S. Saltz, Aron Lindberg:
Introduction to the Minitrack on AI, Organizing, and Management. HICSS 2022: 1-2 - [c77]Kalle Lyytinen, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Fredrik Svahn, Edward Straub:
Automated Driving Systems as a New Frontier for Information Systems Research. ICIS 2022 - [c76]Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Stefan Seidel, Dov Te'eni, Lior Zalmanson:
Gaming and the Metaverse: Trailblazing the Future of Information Systems and Platforms. ICIS 2022 - 2021
- [j29]Jie Ren, Hang Dong
How does social media sentiment impact mass media sentiment? A study of news in the financial markets. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 72(9): 1183-1197 (2021) - [c75]Stefan Seidel, Aron Lindberg, Jeffrey S. Saltz, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Introduction to the Minitrack on AI, Organizing, and Management. HICSS 2021: 1-2 - [c74]Shiyan Zhang, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Occupation Modularity and the Work Ecosystem. ICIS 2021 - 2020
- [j28]Yue Han, Pinar Öztürk
Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowd to Address Societal Challenges: Revisiting the Knowledge Reuse for Innovation Process through Analytics. J. Assoc. Inf. Syst. 21(5): 8 (2020) - [c73]Jie Ren, Hang Dong, Gaurav Sabnis, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
How Social Media Predicts News Viewership - The moderating role of news theme prominence. AMCIS 2020 - [c72]Pnina Fichman, Jeffrey Nickerson, Donald Steiny:
Introduction to the Minitrack on Collective Intelligence and Crowds. HICSS 2020: 1 - [c71]Aron Lindberg, Stefan Seidel, Jeffrey Nickerson:
Introduction to the Minitrack on AI and Organizing. HICSS 2020: 1
2010 – 2019
- 2019
- [j27]Stefan Seidel
Autonomous tools and design: a triple-loop approach to human-machine learning. Commun. ACM 62(1): 50-57 (2019) - [j26]Jie Ren, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Arousal, valence, and volume: how the influence of online review characteristics differs with respect to utilitarian and hedonic products. Eur. J. Inf. Syst. 28(3): 272-290 (2019) - [j25]Kai Wang
A Wikipedia-based Method to Support Creative Idea Generation: The Role of Stimulus Relatedness. J. Manag. Inf. Syst. 36(4): 1284-1312 (2019) - [j24]Lei (Nico) Zheng, Christopher M. Albano, Neev M. Vora, Feng Mai
The Roles Bots Play in Wikipedia. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 3(CSCW): 215:1-215:20 (2019) - [c70]Elizabeth M. Gerber, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Collection Innovation. CSCW Companion 2019: 106-110 - [c69]Pnina Fichman, Jeffrey Nickerson, Donald Steiny:
Introduction to the Minitrack on Collective Intelligence and Crowds. HICSS 2019: 1-2 - [c68]Lu Xiao, Jeffrey Nickerson:
Imperatives in Past Online Discussions: Another Helpful Source for Community Newcomers? HICSS 2019: 1-10 - [c67]Lei (Nico) Zheng, Feng Mai, Deborah M. Gordon, Jeffrey Nickerson:
Bursty Coordination in Online Communities. ICIS 2019 - 2018
- [j23]Lora Aroyo
Reports of the Workshops Held at the Sixth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing. AI Mag. 39(4): 57-63 (2018) - [j22]Stefan Seidel
Autonomous Tools in System Design: Reflective Practice in Ubisofts Ghost Recon Wildlands Project. Computer 51(10): 16-23 (2018) - [c66]Hang Dong, Jie Ren, Jeffrey Nickerson:
Be Careful What You Read - Evidence of Demand-driven Media Bias. AMCIS 2018 - [c65]Ingrid Erickson
Workshop: Work in the Age of Intelligent Machines. GROUP 2018: 359-361 - [c64]Leona Chandra Kruse, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Portraying Design Essence. HICSS 2018: 1-10 - [c63]Jeffrey Nickerson, Pnina Fichman, Donald Steiny:
Introduction to the Minitrack on Collective Intelligence and Crowds. HICSS 2018: 1 - [c62]Yue Han, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Novelty and Diversity: Remixing with Human-based Search Algorithms. ICIS 2018 - 2017
- [j21]Kai Wang, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
A literature review on individual creativity support systems. Comput. Hum. Behav. 74: 139-151 (2017) - [j20]Harris Kyriakou
Knowledge Reuse for Customization: Metamodels in an Open Design Community for 3D Printing. MIS Q. 41(1): 315-332 (2017) - [c61]Thomas W. Malone, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Putting the Pieces Back Together Again: Contest Webs for Large-Scale Problem Solving. CSCW 2017: 1661-1674 - [c60]Pnina Fichman, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Donald Steiny:
Introduction to Collective Intelligence and Crowds Minitrack. HICSS 2017: 1 - [c59]Yue Han, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
The Generativity of Remixing: Understanding Knowledge Reuse Process for Innovation in Online Communities. ICIS 2017 - [i5]Harris Kyriakou, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Gaurav Sabnis:
Knowledge Reuse for Customization: Metamodels in an Open Design Community for 3d Printing. CoRR abs/1702.08072 (2017) - 2016
- [c58]Barbara Tversky, Jie Gao, James E. Corter, Yuko Tanaka, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
People, Place, and Time: Inferences from Diagrams. Diagrams 2016: 258-264 - [c57]Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Introduction to Collective Intelligence and Crowds: Structure, Roles, and Identity Minitrack. HICSS 2016: 1840 - 2015
- [c56]Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Collective Problem Solving: Features and affordances of creative online communities. CSCW Companion 2015: 135-138 - [c55]Yue Han, Jeffrey Nickerson:
Commenting to Promote Exploration of the Design Space: Digital Collaborations in Online Open Innovation Communities. ICIS 2015 - [c54]Pinar Öztürk, Jeffrey Nickerson:
Paths from Talk to Action. ICIS 2015 - 2014
- [j19]Jie Ren, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Increasing the crowd's capacity to create: how alternative generation affects the diversity, relevance and effectiveness of generated ads. Decis. Support Syst. 65: 28-39 (2014) - [c53]Jie Ren, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Online Review Systems: How emotional language drives sales. AMCIS 2014 - [c52]Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Introduction to The Humanized Web: Networks, Crowds, and Their Output Minitrack. HICSS 2014: 1843 - [c51]Michel Avital, Magnus Andersson, Jeffrey Nickerson, Arun Sundararajan, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Deb Verhoeven:
The Collaborative Economy: A Disruptive Innovation or Much Ado about Nothing? ICIS 2014 - [c50]Jeffrey Nickerson, Sabine Brunswicker, Brian Butler, Christian Wagner:
The Evolution of Ideas by Crowds and Communities: Competition vs. cooperation. ICIS 2014 - [i4]Harris Kyriakou, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Collective Innovation in Open Source Hardware. CoRR abs/1404.1799 (2014) - 2013
- [j18]Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Cognitive tools shape thought: diagrams in design. Cogn. Process. 14(3): 255-272 (2013) - [j17]Lixiu Yu, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
An internet-scale idea generation system. ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst. 3(1): 2:1-2:24 (2013) - [c49]Yegin Genc, Elizabeth Lennon, Winter A. Mason, Jeffrey Nickerson:
Building Ontologies from Collaborative Knowledge Bases to Search and Interpret Multilingual Corpora. BUCC@ACL 2013: 87-94 - [c48]Kai Wang, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Yasuaki Sakamoto:
Crowdsourced Idea Generation: The Effect of Exposure to an Original Idea. AMCIS 2013 - [c47]Barbara Tversky, James E. Corter, Jie Gao, Yuko Tanaka, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
People, Place, and Time: Inferences from Diagrams. CogSci 2013 - [c46]Aniket Kittur
The future of crowd work. CSCW 2013: 1301-1318 - [c45]Donald Steiny, Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Introduction to New Directions in Collaboration and Social Networks Minitrack. HICSS 2013: 728 - [c44]Yegin Genc, Winter A. Mason, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Classifying Short Messages using Collaborative Knowledge Bases: Reading Wikipedia to Understand Twitter. #MSM 2013: 50-53 - [c43]Germán Creamer, Yong Ren, Yasuaki Sakamoto, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
News and Sentiment Analysis of the European Market with a Hybrid Expert Weighting Algorithm. SocialCom 2013: 391-396 - [c42]Germán Creamer, Yong Ren, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Impact of Dynamic Corporate News Networks on Asset Return and Volatility. SocialCom 2013: 809-814 - [r1]Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Human-Based Evolutionary Computing. Handbook of Human Computation 2013: 641-648 - [i3]Harris Kyriakou, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Idea Inheritance, Originality, and Collective Innovation. CoRR abs/1311.0527 (2013) - [i2]Harris Kyriakou, Steven Englehardt, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Networks of Innovation in 3D Printing. CoRR abs/1311.0529 (2013) - 2012
- [j16]Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Anticipatory systems: philosophical, mathematical, and methodological foundations. Int. J. Gen. Syst. 41(8): 867-871 (2012) - [j15]Tal Ben-Zvi, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Intruder Detection: An Optimal Decision Analysis Strategy. IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part C 42(2): 249-253 (2012) - [c41]Barbara Tversky, James E. Corter, Lixiu Yu, David L. Mason, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Representing Category and Continuum: Visualizing Thought. Diagrams 2012: 23-34 - [c40]David L. Mason, James E. Corter, Barbara Tversky, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Structure, Space and Time: Some Ways That Diagrams Affect Inferences in a Planning Task. Diagrams 2012: 277-290 - [i1]Lixiu Yu, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Yasuaki Sakamoto:
Collective Creativity: Where we are and where we might go. CoRR abs/1204.3890 (2012) - 2011
- [j14]James E. Corter, Sven K. Esche, Constantin Chassapis, Jing Ma, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Process and learning outcomes from remotely-operated, simulated, and hands-on student laboratories. Comput. Educ. 57(3): 2054-2067 (2011) - [c39]Yasuaki Sakamoto, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Evaluating Design Solutions Using Crowds. AMCIS 2011 - [c38]Lixiu Yu, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Combining concept maps to catalyze creativity. Creativity & Cognition 2011: 13-20 - [c37]Lixiu Yu, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Cooks or cobblers?: crowd creativity through combination. CHI 2011: 1393-1402 - [c36]James E. Corter, David L. Mason, Barbara Tversky, Jeffrey Nickerson:
Identifying causal pathways with and without diagrams. CogSci 2011 - [c35]Barbara Tversky, James E. Corter, Lixiu Yu, David L. Mason, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Visualizing thought: Mapping category and continuum. CogSci 2011 - [c34]John Voiklis, Jeffrey Nickerson:
Tort Reform: Negligence Explains Attributions of Intentionality for Negative Side Effects. CogSci 2011 - [c33]Yasuaki Sakamoto, Yuko Tanaka, Lixiu Yu, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
The Crowdsourcing Design Space. HCI (20) 2011: 346-355 - [c32]Yegin Genc, Yasuaki Sakamoto, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Discovering Context: Classifying Tweets through a Semantic Transform Based on Wikipedia. HCI (20) 2011: 484-492 - [c31]James F. Campbell
Optimal Arrangements for Assembling a Network in an Emergency. HICSS 2011: 1-10 - [c30]Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Appropriation and Creativity: User-Initiated Contests in Scratch. HICSS 2011: 1-10 - [c29]Lixiu Yu, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Generating creative ideas through crowds: An experimental study of combination. ICIS 2011 - 2010
- [j13]Doris Zahner
A fix for fixation? Rerepresenting and abstracting as creative processes in the design of information systems. Artif. Intell. Eng. Des. Anal. Manuf. 24(2): 231-244 (2010) - [c28]Lixiu Yu, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Discovering Perceptions of Personal Social Networks through Diagrams. Diagrams 2010: 352-354 - [c27]Allen S. Lee
Theory As a Case of Design: Lessons for Design from the Philosophy of Science. HICSS 2010: 1-8
2000 – 2009
- 2009
- [j12]Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Adversarial design games and the role of anticipation in sensor networks. Risk Decis. Anal. 1(2): 75-83 (2009) - [c26]Jeffrey V. Nickerson, James E. Corter:
Clarity from Confusion: Using Intended Interactions to Design Information Systems. AMCIS 2009: 267 - [c25]Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Doris Zahner, James E. Corter, Barbara Tversky, Lixiu Yu, Yun Jin Rho:
Matching Mechanisms to Situations Through the Wisdom of the Crowd. ICIS 2009: 41 - 2008
- [j11]Stephan Olariu, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
A probabilistic model of integration. Decis. Support Syst. 45(4): 746-763 (2008) - [j10]Toshihiko Matsuka, Yasuaki Sakamoto, Arieta Chouchourelou, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Toward a descriptive cognitive model of human learning. Neurocomputing 71(13-15): 2446-2455 (2008) - [c24]Barbara Tversky, James E. Corter, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Transforming Descriptions and Diagrams to Sketches in Information System Design. Diagrams 2008: 242-256 - [c23]Jeffrey V. Nickerson, James E. Corter, Barbara Tversky, Doris Zahner, Yun Jin Rho:
The Spatial Nature of Thought: Understanding Systems Design Through Diagrams. ICIS 2008: 216 - 2007
- [j9]Jeffrey V. Nickerson
A model for evaluating the effectiveness of remote engineering laboratories and simulations in education. Comput. Educ. 49(3): 708-725 (2007) - [j8]James E. Corter, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Constructing reality: A study of remote, hands-on, and simulated laboratories. ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact. 14(2): 7 (2007) - [c22]Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Courier Assignment in Social Networks. HICSS 2007: 46 - [c21]M. Brian Blake
Binding Now or Binding Later: The Performance of UDDI Registries. HICSS 2007: 171 - [c20]Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Assembling Sensor Networks. HICSS 2007: 292 - [c19]Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Protecting with Sensor Networks: Attention and Response. HICSS 2007: 294 - [c18]Yasuaki Sakamoto, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Social Behavior in a Team of Autonomous Sensors. ISI 2007: 189-192 - [c17]Hongyuan Shi, Dov Kruger, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Environmental Impact on Underwater Surveillance Systems in Estuary Areas. ISI 2007: 369 - [c16]Irina Goldman, Samuel Barrett, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Optimization of Multi-Attribute Tasks for Underwater Motion of Robotic Sensor Agents. ISI 2007: 374 - 2006
- [j7]Jing Ma, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Hands-on, simulated, and remote laboratories: A comparative literature review. ACM Comput. Surv. 38(3): 7 (2006) - [j6]Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Michael zur Muehlen:
The Ecology of Standards Processes: Insights from Internet Standard Making. MIS Q. 30(Special Issue): 467-488 (2006) - [j5]Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Teaching the integration of information systems technologies. IEEE Trans. Educ. 49(2): 271-277 (2006) - [c15]Toshihiko Matsuka, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Modeling Human Hypotheses-Testing Behaviors Using Simulated Evolutionary Processes. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2006: 399-405 - [c14]Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Flying Sinks: Heuristics for Movement in Sensor Networks. HICSS 2006 - [c13]Toshihiko Matsuka, Yasuaki Sakamoto, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
A Cognitive Model of Multi-objective Multi-concept Formation. ICANN (1) 2006: 563-572 - [c12]Yan Meng, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Jing Gan:
Hierarchical multi-robot coordination - aggregation strategies using hybrid communication. ICINCO-RA 2006: 289-295 - [c11]Yan Meng, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Multi-robot Aggregation Strategies with Limited Communication. IROS 2006: 2691-2696 - 2005
- [j4]Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Logical channels: using web services for cross-organizational workflow. Bus. Process. Manag. J. 11(3): 224-236 (2005) - [j3]Michael zur Muehlen
Developing web services choreography standards - the case of REST vs. SOAP. Decis. Support Syst. 40(1): 9-29 (2005) - [j2]Jeffrey V. Nickerson
A Concept of Communication Distance and Its Application to Six Situations in Mobile Environments. IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 4(5): 409-419 (2005) - [c10]Theodoros Kamakaris, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Connectivity Maps: Measurements and Applications. HICSS 2005 - [c9]Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
The Meaning of Arrows: Diagrams and Other Facets in System Sciences Literature. HICSS 2005 - [c8]Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Steven Skiena
Attention and Communication: Decision Scenarios for Teleoperating Robots. HICSS 2005 - 2004
- [c7]Michael zur Muehlen, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Mathias Weske:
Web Services and Workflow: Composition, Collaboration, Coordination: Minitrack Introduction. HICSS 2004 - [c6]Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Richard R. Reilly:
A Model for Investigating the Effects of Machine Autonomy on Human Behavior. HICSS 2004 - [c5]Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Robots and humans reconvening. SMC (3) 2004: 2803-2808 - 2003
- [c4]Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Event-based Workflow and the Management Interface. HICSS 2003: 202
1990 – 1999
- 1994
- [b1]Jeffrey Nickerson:
Visual Programming. New York University, USA, 1994 - [c3]Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Visual Programming: Limits of Graphic Represenation. VL 1994: 178-179 - 1993
- [c2]Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Visual Conventions for System Design Using Ada 9X: Representing Asynchronous Transfer of Control. TRI-Ada 1993: 379-384
1980 – 1989
- 1989
- [j1]Lawrence O'Gorman, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
An approach to fingerprint filter design. Pattern Recognit. 22(1): 29-38 (1989) - 1988
- [c1]Lawrence O'Gorman, Jeffrey V. Nickerson:
Matched filter design for fingerprint image enhancement. ICASSP 1988: 916-919
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