Hi! I am Paul André, a postdoc at CMU, and finishing up my PhD in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Southampton.

I have recently begun exploring complex and creative crowdsourcing, working with Niki Kittur and Bob Kraut. My thesis focused on social and affective computing: examining physical practices in the workplace and asking how we might use digital tools to augment or enrich those practices, (see projects on serendipity, well-being, and reminiscence).

I have been lucky enough to spend four hugely enjoyable internships at Microsoft Research, where my proudest achievement was receiving the CHI Golden Mouse Award for the co-authored parody video CHIstory, which largely involved putting Jonathan Grudin's head in a jar.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Happenings

August: visiting or talking at HCOMP, UC Berkeley, Adobe.

We have a paper conditionally accepted to CSCW 2012, more details soon.

Our 4chan paper won Best Paper at ICWSM 2011, thanks to everyone who voted.

Our 4chan paper is on Slate, HackerNews, Reddit, Rhizome, Waxy and Metafilter!

Who Gives A Tweet was featured on TechCrunch, Mashable, and CNN!

Co-chair of Madness for CHI 2011 and 2012.

Recent Publications

Making Public Media Personal: Nostalgia and Reminiscence in the Workplace
André, P., Sellen, A., schraefel, m. c., and Wood, K.
BCS HCI 2011.

4chan and /b/: An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community
Bernstein, M.S., Monroy-Hernández, A., Harry, D., André, P., Panovich, K. and Vargas, G.
ICWSM 2011.

Expressing Well-Being Online: Towards Self-Reflection and Social Awareness
André, P., schraefel, m. c., Dix, A. and White, R. W.
iConference 2011.