Dr. Jeremy Birnholtz received his Ph. D. from the School of Information at the University of Michigan in 2005. He is interested in improving the usefulness and usability of collaboration technologies through a focus on human attention, and in the intersections of social science theory and technology design. He uses both laboratory and field methods and has conducted field research in a diverse range of settings including civil engineering laboratories around the US, the CERN particle accelerator in Geneva, and a children's summer camp in northern Michigan. His work has been presented at the ACM CHI, CSCW, and GROUP conferences, and published in Organization Science, JASIST, JCMC and Social Science Computer Review. Jeremy also received a B.S. degree in Radio/TV/Film from Northwestern University in 1996 and an MS in Information from the University of Michigan in 2001.

Journals

Birnholtz, J.P. (forthcoming) “When Do Researchers Collaborate: Toward a Model of Collaboration Propensity,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST).

Birnholtz, J.P. (2008) “When Authorship Isn’t Enough: Lessons from CERN on the Implications of Formal and Informal Credit Attribution in Collaboration,” /Journal of Electronic Publishing, /11 (1).

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Birnholtz, J.P., Cohen, M.D. and Hoch, S.V. (2007) “Organizational Character: On the Regeneration of Camp Poplar Grove,” Organization Science, 18 (2), pp. 315-332.

Birnholtz, J.P. and Horn, D.B. (2007) “Shake, Rattle and Roles: Lessons From Experimental Earthquake Engineering for Incorporating Remote Users in Large-Scale E-Science Experiments,” Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 12 (2), article 17.

Birnholtz, J. (2006) “What Does It Mean To Be An Author? The Intersection of Credit, Contribution and Collaboration in Science,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 57 (13), pp. 1758-1770.

Birnholtz, J.P., Horn, D.B., Finholt, T.A., Bae, S.J. (2004) "The Effects of Cash, Electronic, and Paper Gift Certificates as Respondent Incentives for a Web-Based Survey of a Technologically Sophisticated Sample," Social Science Computer Review, 22(3), pp. 355-362

Birnholtz, J., Gutwin, C., Hawkey, K. (2007) “Privacy in the Open: How Attention Mediates Awareness and Privacy in Open-Plan Offices,” to appear in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP 07), November 4 - 7, Sanibel Island, FL.

Birnholtz, J.P., Grossman, T., Mak, C., Balakrishnan, R. (2007) “An Exploratory Study of Input Configuration and Group Process in a Negotiation Task Using a Large Display,” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 07), April 28 – May 3, San Jose, CA, pp. 91-100 .

Ranjan, A., Birnholtz, J.P., Balakrishnan, R. (2007) “Dynamic Shared Visual Spaces: Experimenting with Automatic Camera Control in a Remote Repair Task,” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 07), April 28 – May 3, San Jose, CA, pp. 1177-1186.

Ranjan, A., Birnholtz, J.P., Balakrishnan, R. (2006) “An Exploratory Analysis of Partner Action and Camera Control in a Video-Mediated Collaborative Task,” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, November 4-8, Banff, Alberta, pp. 403-412.

Birnholtz, J.P., Finholt, T.A., Horn, D.B., Bae, S.J. (2005) “Grounding Needs: Achieving Common Ground Via Lightweight Chat in Large, Distributed, Ad-Hoc Groups,” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005), April 2-7, Portland, OR, pp. 21-30 (25% acceptance rate).

Birnholtz, J. and Bietz, M. (2003) “Data at Work: Supporting Sharing in Science and Engineering,” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work, Sanibel Island, FL, November 9 – 12, pp. 339-348 (30% acceptance rate).