My work investigates software systems for managing information spaces from an HCI perspective. You can see my publications on Google Scholar or look through the list of publications on this page. You can read also see my CV and Research Statement. If you are interested in a detailed list of specific research methods, skills, expertise, development, and tools I tend to use see my Consulting page.

Publications

Full Peer Reviewed Conference Publications

Senjuti Dutta, Rhema Linder, Doug Lowe, Matthew Rosenbalm, Anastasia Kuzminykh, and Alex C. Williams. Mobilizing crowdwork: A systematic assessment of the mobile usability of hits. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems, 2022.

Rhema Linder, Chase Hunter, Jacob McLemore, Senjuti Dutta, Fatema Akbar, Thomas Breideband, Judith Borghouts, Gloria Mark, Austin Z. Henley, and Alex C. Williams. Characterizing work-life for information work on mars: A design fiction for the new future of work on earth. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork, 2022.

Rhema Linder, Sina Mohseni, Fan Yang, Shiva K. Pentyala, Eric D. Ragan, and Xia Ben Hu. How level of explanation detail affects human performance in interpretable intelligent systems: A study on explainable fact checking. Applied AI Letters, page e49, 2021.

Nic Lupfer, Andruid Kerne, Rhema Linder, Hannah Fowler, Vijay Rajanna, Matthew Carrasco, and Alyssa Valdez. Multiscale curation: Supporting computer science students’ iterative and reflective design processes. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition. ACM, 2019.

Andruid Kerne, Nic Lupfer, Rhema Linder, Yin Qu, Alyssa Valdez, Ajit Jain, Kade Keith, Matthew Carrasco, Jorge Vanegas, and Andrew Billingsley. Strategies of free-form web curation: Processes of creative engagement with prior work. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition, pages 380–392. ACM, 2017.

Nic Lupfer, Andruid Kerne, Andrew M. Webb, and Rhema Linder. Patterns of free-form curation: Visual thinking with web content. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Multimedia, page In press. ACM, 2016.

Rhema Linder, Nic Lupfer, Andruid Kerne, Andrew M. Webb, Cameron Hill, Yin Qu, Kade Keith, Matthew Carrasco, and Elizabeth Kellogg. Beyond slideware: How a free-form presentation medium stimulates free-form thinking in the classroom. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Creativity&Cognition, C&C ‘15, New York, NY, USA, 2015. ACM.

Ajit Jain, Nic Lupfer, Yin Qu, Rhema Linder, Andruid Kerne, and Steven M Smith. Evaluating tweetbubble with ideation metrics of exploratory browsing. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition, pages 53–62. ACM, 2015.

Yin Qu, Andruid Kerne, Nic Lupfer, Rhema Linder, and Ajit Jain. Metadata type system: Integrate presentation, data models and extraction to enable exploratory browsing interfaces. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, EICS ‘14, pages 107–116, New York, NY, USA, 2014. ACM.

Rhema Linder, Clair Snodgrass, and Andruid Kerne. Everyday ideation: All of my ideas are on pinterest. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems, pages 2411–2420, 2014.

Andrew M. Webb, Rhema Linder, Andruid Kerne, Nic Lupfer, Yin Qu, Bryant Poffenberger, and Colton Revia. Promoting reflection and interpretation in education: Curating rich bookmarks as information composition. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity&Cognition, C&C ‘13, pages 53–62, New York, NY, USA, 2013. ACM.

Reviewed Poster Publications

Fan Yang, Shiva K Pentyala, Sina Mohseni, Mengnan Du, Hao Yuan, Rhema Linder, Eric D Ragan, Shuiwang Ji, and Xia Ben Hu. Xfake: Explainable fake news detector with visualizations. In 24rd International conference on intelligent user interfaces - Demo Papers. ACM, 2019.

Rhema Linder, Shamsi T Iqbal, and Jaime Teevan. Outsider perspectives: Crowd-based feedback for writing. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 1–6, 2018.

Rhema Linder, Alexandria M Stacy, Nic Lupfer, Andruid Kerne, and Eric D Ragan. Pop the feed filter bubble: Making reddit social media a vr cityscape. In 2018 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), pages 619–620. IEEE, 2018.

Rhema Linder and Eunyee Koh. Quarry: Picking from examples to explore big data. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA ‘15, pages 1869–1874, New York, NY, USA, 2015. ACM.

Nic Lupfer, Bill Hamilton, Andrew Webb, Rhema Linder, Ernest Edmonds, and Andruid Kerne. The art.chi gallery: An embodied iterative curation experience. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA ‘15, pages 391–394, New York, NY, USA, 2015. ACM.

Full Peer Reviewed Journal Publications

Andruid Kerne, Andrew M. Webb, Steven M. Smith, Rhema Linder, Nic Lupfer, Yin Qu, Jon Moeller, and Sashikanth Damaraju. Using metrics of curation to evaluate information-based ideation. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact., 21(3):14:1–14:48, June 2014.

Dissertation

Rhema Linder. Grounded Visual Analytics: A New Approach to Discovering Phenomena in Data at Scale. PhD dissertation, Texas A&M University, 2019.

Book Chapters

Andrew Webb, Andruid Kerne, Rhema Linder, Nic Lupfer, Yin Qu, Kade Keith, Matthew Carrasco, and Yvonne Chen. A free-form medium for curating the digital. In Curating the Digital Space for Art and Interaction. Springer, 2016.

Patents

Eunyee Koh and Rhema P Linder. Visitor identification based on feature selection, February 2 2021. US Patent 10,909,571.

Workshop and Other Paper Presentations

Senjuti Dutta, Rhema Linder, Doug Lowe, Matthew Rosenbalm, Anastasia Kuzminykh, and Alex C. Williams. The productivity paradox: Understanding tooling biases in crowdwork. In CSCW ‘21 Workshop, Investigating and Mitigating Biases in Crowdsourced Data, 2021.

Rhema Linder, Austin Z. Henly, and Alex C. Williams. Life in the outpost: Applying work-life research to interplanetary habitation. In CHI’21 Workshop, Space CHI: Human-computer Interaction for Space Exploration, 2021.

Rhema Linder and Andruid Kerne. Crowdpowered ideas and plans: Everyday productivity on pinterest. In CHI’16 Workshop, Productivity Decomposed: Getting Big Things Done with Little Microtasks, 2016.

Rhema Linder. Visual analytics for understanding a user’s creative processes. In Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Doctoral Colloquium, 2016 IEEE Conference on. IEEE, 2016.

Rhema Linder, Alyssa M. Pena, Sampath Jayarathna, and Eric D. Ragan. Results and challenges in visualizing analytic provenance of text analysis tasks using interaction logs. In Logging Interactive Visualizations and Visualizing Interaction Logs (LIVVIL) Workshop, 2016.

Andrew .M. Webb, Andruid Kerne, Rhema Linder, Nic Lupfer, Yin Qu, Kade Keith, and Matthew Carrasco. Multi-scale information composition: a new medium for freeform art curation in the cloud. In CHI’14 Workshop: Curating the Digital: Spaces for Art and Interaction, 2014.

Rhema Linder, Andrew Webb, and Andruid Kerne. Searching to measure the novelty of collected ideas. In CHI’13 Workshop: Evaluation Methods for Creativity Support Environments, 2013.

Rhema Linder and Andruid Kerne. Using information composition to represent connections among events across time and place. In CHI’12 Workshop: Heritage Matters: Designing for Current and Future Values Through Digital and Social Technologies, 2012.