Andrew T. Fiore
I'm pursuing a Ph.D. at the School of Information at UC-Berkeley, where I study online dating behavior, including attraction, relationship formation, and relationship outcomes. My methodologies include quantitative analysis, data mining, and survey research. My advisor is Coye Cheshire. He and I co-developed and co-teach the Computer-Mediated Communication course at the iSchool.
Previously, I was a graduate student in the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Lab with Prof. Judith Donath. My master's thesis describes a quantitative analysis of the communication patterns of nearly 60,000 users on an online dating Web site.
I did my undergraduate work (an interdisciplinary mix of computer science, sociology, human-computer interaction, and psychology) at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. I've also interned at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Wa., and, on an entirely different career track, at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.
Research projects
- Online dating. My primary research area, with the goal of understanding and improving the experience of finding a romantic partner through mediated channels.
- Enron email analysis. Analysis of informational and interactional patterns in the corpus of email messages from Enron that the U.S. government released during its investigation of the company.
- NGDB: Newsgroup Database. Customized Usenet news server that stores and analyzes messages and conversations in a database backend. (Sociable Media Group)
- Affective Circles. A version of Fernanda Viégas' Chat Circles 2 graphical chat system that conveys the galvanic skin response of its users. (Sociable Media Group)
- Treemaps of Usenet [PDF]. With Marc Smith at Microsoft Research, I developed a visualization of Usenet newsgroup postings as a squarified treemap:
- Newsgroup behavior [PDF]. With Marc Smith and Scott Counts at Microsoft Research, I ran a study to find associations between how people behave in Usenet newsgroups and how others perceive them. That is, we examined what low-level behaviors lead observers to draw various high-level conclusions about a person.
- Newsgroup visualizations [PDF]. Dashboard interface for reading and understanding patterns of interaction in newsgroups, with Marc Smith at Microsoft Research.
- Wireless network use. Analysis and visualization of wireless network activity during Cornell's trial of the technology in 2000. (Cornell HCI Lab)
More about me
Links
- School of Information Management and Systems (Berkeley)
- Sociable Media Group (MIT)
- MIT Media Lab
- Cornell Human-Computer Interaction Lab
- Cornell Information Science
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