Jacob Thebault-Spieker

36 papers A* 7A 3B 1C 2Journal 18Unranked 5
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 A* conf
Beyond Access: Contextualizing the Benefits of Broadband through Contributor Dynamics on Wikipedia.
CHI
Yaxuan Yin, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2026 J jnl
Collective Narrative Grounding: Community-Coordinated Data Contributions to Improve Local AI Systems.
CoRR
Zihan Gao, Mohsin Y. K. Yousufi, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2026 A* conf
LocalBench: Benchmarking LLMs on County-Level Local Knowledge and Reasoning.
AAAI
Zihan Gao, Yifei Xu, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2026 A* conf
PlaceWeave: Understanding Place Through Social Video Narratives and Graph-Enhanced Local Knowledge.
CHI
Zihan Gao, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2025 J jnl
A Turing Test for "Localness": Conceptualizing, Defining, and Recognizing Localness in People and Machines.
CoRR
Zihan Gao, Justin Cranshaw, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2025 J jnl
Beyond 'Geo' HCI: Exploring Cultural Dimensions of Disparity in OpenStreetMap Road Safety Metadata.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Yaxuan Yin, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2025 — conf
From Clips to Communities: Fusing Social Video into Knowledge Graphs for Localness-Aware LLMs.
CSCW Companion
Zihan Gao, Jiaying Liu, Yifei Xu, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2025 J jnl
LocalBench: Benchmarking LLMs on County-Level Local Knowledge and Reasoning.
CoRR
Zihan Gao, Yifei Xu, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2025 J jnl
The Effect of Population Density on Remote Humanitarian Mapping Activities: A Triple-Difference Analysis.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Yaxuan Yin, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2024 J jnl
A Turn to Assets in Community-Based Computing Research: Tradeoffs, Deficits, and Neoliberalism in Technological Development.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Jean Hardy, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2024 J jnl
Investigating Influential Users' Responses to Permanent Suspension on Social Media.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Zihan Gao, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2024 J jnl
Journeying Through Sense of Place with Mental Maps: Characterizing Changing Spatial Understanding and Sense of Place During Migration for Work.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Zihan Gao, Justin Cranshaw, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2024 J jnl
Productivity or Equity? Tradeoffs in Volunteer Microtasking in Humanitarian OpenStreetMap.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Yaxuan Yin, Longjie Guo, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2024 — conf
Understanding Perceptions of the Reddit Reaction Mechanism in Political Subreddits.
CSCW Companion
Longjie Guo, Yaxuan Yin, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2023 — conf
Diverse Perspectives Can Mitigate Political Bias in Crowdsourced Content Moderation.
FAccT
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Naomi Mine, Kurt Luther
2023 J jnl
Diverse Perspectives Can Mitigate Political Bias in Crowdsourced Content Moderation.
CoRR
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Naomi Mine, Kurt Luther
2021 — conf
Do We Fix it or Burn it Down? Towards Practicable Critique at CSCW.
CSCW Companion
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Stevie Chancellor, Michael Ann DeVito, Niloufar Salehi, Alex Leavitt, David R. Karger, Katta Spiel
2021 J jnl
Understanding Wikipedia Practices Through Hindi, Urdu, and English Takes on an Evolving Regional Conflict.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Molly G. Hickman, Viral Pasad, Harsh Kamalesh Sanghavi, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Sang Won Lee
2020 J jnl
Introduction to the Special Issue on Negotiating Truth and Trust in Socio-Technical Systems.
ACM Trans. Soc. Comput.
Kurt Luther, Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Judd Antin
2020 C conf
Wiki HUEs: Understanding Wikipedia practices through Hindi, Urdu, and English takes on evolving regional conflict.
ICTD
Molly G. Hickman, Viral Pasad, Harsh Sanghavi, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Sang Won Lee
2019 J jnl
GroundTruth: Augmenting Expert Image Geolocation with Crowdsourcing and Shared Representations.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Sukrit Venkatagiri, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Rachel Kohler, John Purviance, Rifat Sabbir Mansur, Kurt Luther
2019 J jnl
The Geography of Pokémon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement.
CoRR
Ashley Colley, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Allen Yilun Lin, Donald Degraen, Benjamin Fischman, Jonna Häkkilä, Kate Kuehl, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Jardim Nunes, Nina Wenig, Dirk Wenig, Brent J. Hecht, Johannes Schöning
2018 A* conf
Distance and Attraction: Gravity Models for Geographic Content Production.
CHI
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Aaron Halfaker, Loren G. Terveen, Brent J. Hecht
2018 C conf
Exploring the Relationship Between "Informal Standards" and Contributor Practice in OpenStreetMap.
OpenSym
Andrew Hall, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Shilad Sen, Brent J. Hecht, Loren G. Terveen
2018 B conf
Geographic Biases are 'Born, not Made': Exploring Contributors' Spatiotemporal Behavior in OpenStreetMap.
GROUP
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Brent J. Hecht, Loren G. Terveen
2017 A* conf
Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer Production Community.
CHI
Andrew Hall, Sarah McRoberts, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Yilun Lin, Shilad Sen, Brent J. Hecht, Loren G. Terveen
2017 J jnl
Never Too Old, Cold or Dry to Watch the Sky: A Survival Analysis of Citizen Science Volunteerism.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
S. Andrew Sheppard, Julian Turner, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Haiyi Zhu, Loren G. Terveen
2017 J jnl
Simulation Experiments on (the Absence of) Ratings Bias in Reputation Systems.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Daniel Kluver, Maximilian A. Klein, Aaron Halfaker, Brent J. Hecht, Loren G. Terveen, Joseph A. Konstan
2017 A* conf
The Geography of Pokémon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement.
CHI
Ashley Colley, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Allen Yilun Lin, Donald Degraen, Benjamin Fischman, Jonna Häkkilä, Kate Kuehl, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Jardim Nunes, Nina Wenig, Dirk Wenig, Brent J. Hecht, Johannes Schöning
2017 J jnl
Toward a Geographic Understanding of the Sharing Economy: Systemic Biases in UberX and TaskRabbit.
ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact.
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Loren G. Terveen, Brent J. Hecht
2017 A conf
Understanding Emoji Ambiguity in Context: The Role of Text in Emoji-Related Miscommunication.
ICWSM
Hannah Jean Miller, Daniel Kluver, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Loren G. Terveen, Brent J. Hecht
2016 A conf
"Blissfully Happy" or "Ready toFight": Varying Interpretations of Emoji.
ICWSM
Hannah Jean Miller, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Shuo Chang, Isaac L. Johnson, Loren G. Terveen, Brent J. Hecht
2016 — conf
Exploring Engagement in a 'Social Crowd' on Twitter.
CSCW Companion
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Angbang Xu, Jilin Chen, Jalal Mahmud, Jeffrey Nichols
2015 A conf
Avoiding the South Side and the Suburbs: The Geography of Mobile Crowdsourcing Markets.
CSCW
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Loren G. Terveen, Brent J. Hecht
2015 A* conf
User Session Identification Based on Strong Regularities in Inter-activity Time.
WWW
Aaron Halfaker, Oliver Keyes, Daniel Kluver, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Tien T. Nguyen, Kenneth Shores, Anuradha Uduwage, Morten Warncke-Wang
2014 J jnl
User Session Identification Based on Strong Regularities in Inter-activity Time.
CoRR
Aaron Halfaker, Oliver Keyes, Daniel Kluver, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Tien T. Nguyen, Kenneth Shores, Anuradha Uduwage, Morten Warncke-Wang