Research Interests

• SIGIR 2012: Hecht, B., Quaderi, M., Carton, S., Schöning, J., Raubal, M., Gergle, D., Downey, D. Explanatory Semantic Relatedness and Explicit Spatialization for Exploratory Search. Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2012. New York: ACM Press (in press).
• CHI 2012: Bao, P., Hecht, B., Carton, S., Quaderi, M., Horn, M. and Gergle, D. (2012). Omnipedia: Bridging the Wikipedia Language Gap. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012). New York: ACM Press. (pdf)
• ICWSM 2012: Hecht, B., Teevan, J., Morris, M., and Liebling, D. (2012). SearchBuddies: Bringing Search Engines into the Conversation. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2012). Selected for oral presentation. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. (pdf).
• CHI 2011: Hecht, B., Hong, L., Suh, B. and Chi, E.H. (2011). Tweets from Justin Bieber’s Heart: The Dynamics of the “Location” Field in User Profiles. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011), pp. 237-246. New York: ACM Press. (pdf)
• CHI 2011 EA: Hecht, B., Schöning, J., Erickson, T., Priedhorsky, R. (2011). Geographic human-computer interaction. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2011), pp. 447–450. New York: ACM Press. (pdf)
• MobileHCI 2011: Böhmer, M., Hecht, B., Schöning, J., Krüger, A., Bauer, G. (2011). Falling Asleep with Angry Birds, Facebook and Kindle – A Large Scale Study on Mobile Application Usage. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2011), pp. 47-56. New York: ACM Press. (pdf)
• CHI 2010: Hecht, B. and Gergle, D. (2010). The Tower of Babel Meets Web 2.0: User-Generated Content and its Applications in a Multilingual Context. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010), pp. 291–300. New York: ACM Press. (pdf) *Best Paper Award*
• CSCW 2010: Hecht, B. and Gergle, D. On The "Localness" of User-Generated Content. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2010), pp. 229-232 (short paper). New York: ACM Press. (pdf)
• Book Chapter: Hecht, B. and Gergle, D. (2010). A Beginner’s Guide to Geographic Virtual Communities Research. Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities: Paradigms and Phenomena. pp. 333-347. IGI Global.(preprint pdf)
• COSIT 2009: Hecht, B and Moxley, E. (2009). Terabytes of Tobler: Evaluating the First Law of Geography in a Massive, Domain-Neutral Representation of World Knowledge. Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2009), pp. 88-105. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. (pdf) *Best Presentation Award*
• C&T 2009: Hecht, B. and Gergle, D. (2009). Measuring Self-Focus Bias in Community-Maintained Knowledge Repositories. Proceedings of the International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2009), pp. 11-19. New York: ACM Press. (pdf)
• Book Entry: Hecht, B. (2009). Data Indexing. in Warf, B. ed. The Encyclopedia of Geography, SAGE.
• IUI 2008: Schöning, J., Hecht, B., Raubal, M., Krüger, A., Marsh, M. and Rohs, M. (2008). Improving Interaction with Virtual Globes through Spatial Thinking: Helping Users Ask “Why?” Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2008), pp. 129-138. New York: ACM Press. (pdf)
• AGILE 2008: Hecht, B. and Raubal, M. (2008). GeoSR: Geographically explore semantic relations in world knowledge. AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science (AGILE 2008), pp. 95-114. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. (pdf)
• GIScience 2008 EA: Hecht, B. and Schöning, J. (2008). Mapping the Zeitgeist. Extended Abstracts of the International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2008 EA). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. (pdf) *Best Extended Abstract*
• CHI 2008 EA: Schöning, J., Hecht, B. and Starosielski, N. (2008). Evaluating automatically generated location-based stories for tourists. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2008), pp. 2937–2942. New York: ACM Press. (pdf)
• AAAI Fall Symposium 2007: Hecht, B., Starosielski, N. and Dara-Abrams, D. (2007). Generating Educational Tourism Narratives from Wikipedia. Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium on Intelligent Narrative Technologies, pp. 37-44. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. (pdf)
• UbiComp 2007 EA: Schöning, J., Hecht, B., Rohs, M. and Starosielski, N. (2007). WikEar - Automatically Generated Location-Based Audio Stories Between Public City Map. Extended Abstracts of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp EA ’07). New York: ACM Press. (pdf)
• Pervasive 2007 LBR: Rohs, M., Schöning, J., Krüger, A. and Hecht, B. (2007). Towards real-time markerless tracking of magic lenses on paper maps. Adjunct Proceedings of the Conference on Pervasive Computing, Late Breaking Results (Pervasive LBR 2007), pp. 69-72. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. (pdf)
• PERMID Workshop 2007: Hecht, B., Rohs, M., Schöning, J. and Krüger, A. (2007). WikEye: Using Magic Lenses to Explore Georeferenced Wikipedia Content. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices (PERMID 2007) in conjunction with Pervasive 2007, pp. 6-10. (pdf)