Kevin G Crowston

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Professional Information

Kevin Crowston is a Distinguished Professor of Information Science at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. He received his A.B. (1984) in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University and a Ph.D. (1991) in Information Technologies from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently serving as Associate Dean for Research.

He is currently seeking PhD students interested in the impact on work design of systems with increased autonomy and capability.

Research Interests

Crowston's research examines new ways of organizing made possible by the use of information technology. He approaches this issue in several ways: empirical studies of coordination-intensive processes in human organizations (especially virtual organization); theoretical characterizations of coordination problems and alternative methods for managing them; and design and empirical evaluation of systems to support people working together. Specific domains of interest include free/libre open source software development projects, citizen science projects and research data management.

He is a co-PI on an NSF INSPIRE project: "INSPIRE: Teaming Citizen Science with Machine Learning to Deepen LIGO's View of the Cosmos" (15-47880) that has produced the Gravity Spy system. He is the former PI on NSF SOCS Grant 12-11071 for "Collaborative Research: Focusing Attention to Improve the Performance of Citizen Science Systems: Beautiful Images and Perceptive Observers" (see here for details). With colleagues, he will be leading a research coordination network aimed at developing a socio-technical perspective on work in the age of intelligent machines.

Keywords: virtual work; virtual organizations; free/libre/open source software development practices; citizen science; work design for work with autonomous systems

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Projects 2005 2022

3 Active
14 Finished

Workshop: The iConference 2018 Doctoral Colloquium

Crowston, K. G.

National Science Foundation

3/1/18 → 2/28/19

Project: Research project

Convergence HTF: A Research Coordination Network to Converge Research on the Socio-Technological Landscape of Work in the Age of Increased Automation

Crowston, K. G.

National Science Foundation

1/1/18 → 12/31/22

Project: Research project

Supporting Stigmergic Coordination: CHS: Small

Crowston, K. G.

National Science Foundation

8/1/16 → 7/31/19

Project: Research project

WORKSHOP: The iConference 2017 Doctoral Colloquium

Crowston, K. G.

National Science Foundation

1/15/17 → 12/31/17

Project: Research project

Travel support for the Open Source Systems 2016 Doctoral Consortium

Crowston, K. G.

National Science Foundation

5/1/16 → 4/30/17

Project: Other project

Research Output 1986 2018

6218 Citations
33 h-Index
78 Conference contribution
77 Article
8 Chapter
5 Poster
15 More

Appealing to different motivations in a message to recruit citizen scientists: results of a field experiment

Lee, T. K., Crowston, K., Harandi, M., Østerlund, C. & Miller, G., Feb 6 2018, In : Journal of Science Communication. 17, 01

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Electronic mail

Joining

citizen

experiment

science

Coordinating advanced crowd work: Extending citizen science

Mitchell, E., Crowston, K. G. & Oesterlund, C., Jan 3 2018, Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Open Access

Folksonomies to Support Coordination and Coordination of Folksonomies

Jackson, C., Crowston, K., Østerlund, C. & Harandi, M., May 10 2018, In : Computer Supported Cooperative Work.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

1 Citations

Stages of motivation for contributing user-generated content: A theory and empirical test

Crowston, K. G. & Fagnot, I., Jan 1 2018, In : International Journal of Human Computer Studies. 109, p. 1339-1351 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

motivation research

test theory

social movement

editor

participation

Stigmergic coordination in Wikipedia

Rezgui, A. & Crowston, K. G., Aug 22 2018, Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2018. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, a19

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Electric insulation coordination