Mike Brzozowski
Palo Alto
Biography
I came all the way across Page Mill from Stanford's CS department, where I was working with Scott Klemmer in the HCI Group and Andrew Ng in the AI Lab.
In my spare time, I enjoy social dance, especially waltz and swing. I also pretend to play the piano and cook, sometimes even creating melodious sounds or edible food.
Research interests
I'm interested broadly in social computing: how human-computer interaction reflects and facilitates social connections between people, and how tools and social networks influence each other. I'm also interested in how computers can adapt to individual users to improve user experience, persuasive social technology, and emergent folksonomies. Recently, I've been focusing on what motivates contributions to online communities and social media, particularly in corporate settings.
Publications
Enterprise social media
WaterCooler: Exploring an organization through enterprise social media: Michael J. Brzozowski. GROUP 2009: ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work
Effects of feedback and peer pressure on contributions to enterprise social media: Michael J. Brzozowski, Thomas Sandholm, and Tad Hogg. GROUP 2009: ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work
Blogging at work and the corporate attention economy: Sarita Yardi, Scott A. Golder, and Michael J. Brzozowski. CHI 2009: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Revealing the long tail in office conversations: Michael J. Brzozowski and Sarita Yardi. Position paper, CSCW 2008: Computer Supported Collaborative Work. Workshop on Enterprise 3.0.
The pulse of the corporate blogosphere: Sarita Yardi, Scott Golder, and Mike Brzozowski. Poster, CSCW 2008: Computer Supported Collaborative Work
Social network analysis
Friends and foes: Ideological social networking: Michael J. Brzozowski, Tad Hogg, Gabor Szabo. CHI 2008: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. [ACM]
Multiple relationship types in online communities and social networks: Tad Hogg, Dennis M. Wilkinson, Gabor Szabo, Michael J. Brzozowski. AAAI SIP 2008: AAAI Social Information Processing Symposium. [cite]
Group scheduling and multi-agent systems
groupTime: Preference-Based Group Scheduling: Mike Brzozowski, Kendra Carattini, Patrick Mihelich, Scott R. Klemmer, Jiang Hu, Andrew Y. Ng. CHI 2006: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems [ACM]
Preference-Based Group Scheduling: Jiang Hu and Mike Brzozowski. INTERACT 2005: IFIP International Conference on HCI. [SpringerLink]
Evolution, Generality, and Robustness of Emerged Surrounding Behavior in Continuous Predator-Prey Pursuit Problem: Ivan Tanev, Michael Brzozowski, and Katsunori Shimohara. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines [ACM]
Invited talks
"Share the love: Motivating positive participation in social applications": Palo Alto Colloquia, Lockheed Martin, Palo Alto, CA. March 13, 2008.
Contact information
I can be reached by email (preferred) at , or by phone at +1 650 857 4428.
Updated March 24, 2009.