Recent research

2008

• Palen, Leysia and Sarah Vieweg (to appear 2008). The Emergence of Online Widescale Interaction in Unexpected Events: Assistance, Alliance and Retreat. To appear in the 2008 ACM Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work Conference, San Diego, CA.
• Shklovski, Irina, Leysia Palen and Jeannette Sutton (to appear 2008). Finding Community Through Information and Communication Technology in Disaster Events. To appear in the 2008 ACM Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work Conference, San Diego, CA.
• Hughes, Amanda, Leysia Palen, Jeannette Sutton, Sophia Liu, and Sarah Vieweg (2008). “Site-Seeing” in Disaster: An Examination of On-Line Social Convergence. Proceedings of the 2008 ISCRAM Conference, Washington, DC.
• Liu, Sophia, Leysia Palen, Jeannette Sutton, Amanda Hughes, and Sarah Vieweg (2008). In Search of the Bigger Picture: The Emergent Role of On-Line Photo Sharing in Times of Disaster. Proceedings of the 2008 ISCRAM Conference, Washington, DC.
• Sutton, Jeannette, Leysia Palen and Irina Shlovski (2008). Back-Channels on the Front Lines: Emerging Use of Social Media in the 2007 Southern California Wildfires. Proceedings of the 2008 ISCRAM Conference, Washington.
• Vieweg, Sarah, Leysia Palen, Sophia Liu, Amanda Hughes, and Jeannette Sutton (2008). Collective Intelligence in Disaster: Examination of the Phenomenon in the Aftermath of the 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting. Proceedings of the 2008 ISCRAM Conference, Washington, DC.

2007

• Palen, Leysia, Sarah Vieweg, Jeannette Sutton, Sophia Liu and Amanda Hughes (2007). Crisis Informatics: Studying Crisis in a Networked World. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on E-Social Science, Ann Arbor, MI, Oct 7-9, 2007.
• Palen, Leysia and Sophia B. Liu (2007). Citizen Communications in Crisis: Anticipating a Future of ICT-Supported Participation, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 2007, 727-736.
• Palen, Leysia, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, and Sophia Liu (2007). Online Forums Supporting Grassroots Participation in Emergency Preparedness and Response. Communications of the ACM, 50 (3) (Mar. 2007): 54-58.

2006

• Kristensen, Margit, Morten Kyng and Leysia Palen (2006). Participatory Design in Emergency Medical Service: Designing for Future Practice. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 2006, 161-170.