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Elizabeth M Gerber

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Communication Studies, Northwestern University
Verified email at northwestern.edu
Cited by 8770

Crowdfunding: Motivations and deterrents for participation

EM Gerber, J Hui - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Crowdfunding is changing how, why, and which ideas are brought into existence. With the
increasing number of crowdfunded projects, it is important to understand what drives people …

[PDF][PDF] Crowdfunding: Why people are motivated to post and fund projects on crowdfunding platforms

EM Gerber, JS Hui, PY Kuo - Proceedings of the international …, 2012 - researchgate.net
Computer-mediated crowdfunding is an emerging paradigm used by individuals to solicit
funds from other individuals to realize projects. We are interested in how and why these …

Understanding and leveraging social networks for crowdfunding: opportunities and challenges

JS Hui, EM Gerber, D Gergle - Proceedings of the 2014 conference on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Crowdfunding provides a new way for creatives to share their work and acquire resources
from their social network to influence what new ideas are realized. Yet, we understand very …

On hackathons: A multidisciplinary literature review

CW Chau, EM Gerber - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
… Nearly all disciplines from our sample contribute at least one empirical contribution. …
We emphasize the importance of an underlying purpose for hackathons to drive adoption of …

Understanding the role of community in crowdfunding work

JS Hui, MD Greenberg, EM Gerber - … of the 17th ACM conference on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
… being formed, HCI designers could design a matchmaking service in an effort to build a
community between project creators who lack skills and people with skills but in need of em

Design-based research process: Problems, phases, and applications

MW Easterday, DR Lewis, EM Gerber - 2014 - repository.isls.org
Since the first descriptions of design-based research (DBR), there have been continued calls
to better define DBR and increase its rigor. Here we address four uncertainties about DBR: (…

Critique style guide: Improving crowdsourced design feedback with a natural language model

M Krause, T Garncarz, JJ Song, EM Gerber… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Gerber Delta Lab … Steven Dow, Elizabeth Gerber, and Audris Wong. 2013. A Pilot Study
of Using … Gerber. 2015. Critiki: A Scaffolded Approach to Gathering Design Feedback from …

Next steps for human-computer integration

…, M Obrist, Z Li, J Delfa, J Nishida, EM Gerber… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Human-Computer Integration (HInt) is an emerging paradigm in which computational and
human systems are closely interwoven. Integrating computers with the human body is not new. …

The logic of design research

…, DG Rees Lewis, EM Gerber - Learning: Research and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Since the first descriptions of design research (DR), there have been calls to better define it
to increase its rigour. Yet five uncertainties remain: (1) the processes for conducting DR, (2) …

Combining crowdsourcing and learning to improve engagement and performance

…, RR Morris, JR Brandt, EM Gerber - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Crowdsourcing complex creative tasks remains difficult, in part because these tasks require
skilled workers. Most crowdsourcing platforms do not help workers acquire the skills …