User:CMUResearcher

This is the userpage of a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University. I hope to find ways to contribute to Wikipedia in the following areas:


 * Social Psychology Theories
 * Organizational Behavior Theories

Additionally, I am part of an academic research team that examines social aspects of online communities. We are currently hoping to get help from the Wikipedia community in examining the RfA process. Please consider taking the survey, more information is below.

As part of an ongoing research project by students and faculty at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and headed by Professor Robert Kraut, we are conducting a survey of anyone who has participated in the Request for Adminship (RfA) process, either voting or as a candidate.

The survey will only take a few minutes of your time, and will aid furthering our understanding of online communities, and may assist in the development of tools to assist voters in making RfA evaluations. We are NOT attempting to spam anyone with this survey and are doing our best to be considerate and not instrusive in the Wikipedia community. The results of this survey are for academic research and are not used for any profit nor sold to any companies. We will also post our results back to the Wikipedia community.

Take the survey

Thank you!

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free comment on my talk page.

About the Research Team

I've gotten a few questions about who is conducting this study, and whether it is legitimate. The principle investigator for this study is Robert Kraut, he is full professor in Human Computer Interaction. Other team members include professor Niki Kittur who has published several papers on Wikipedia, and a graduate student Moira Burke who has also published research on Wikipedia and is a graduate student in HCI. Lastly, myself, [mailto:bcollier@andrew.cmu.edu Ben Collier], a PhD student. -CMUResearcher (talk) 21:09, 16 July 2009 (UTC)