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Jacob Thebault-Spieker

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Expert in online social systems. Research focuses in human computer interaction, and on information gaps, bias, disparity

Assistant Professor, Information School College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence jacob.thebaultspieker@wisc.edu Home page

Topics

  • Causes of information gaps (individual and community-level causes), and software tools to help fill information gaps
  • Urban-rural information gaps, and software tools to support rural community needs
  • Geographic biases and disparities in technological settings where people work (Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Uber, TaskRabbit)

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