** Apologies for Cross-posts ** Dear Colleagues: The preparations for Following User Pathways 2016 co-located at CHI2016 are in full swing. We have 5 exciting papers that will be presented in two panel sessions. There will be distinguished keynote speakers, including Derek Ruths, Associate Professor at McGill University, who will open the general workshop. We would like to remind you that *Registration is still open<https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/registration/>*. Register today, and avoid the last minute rush! UP 2016 colocated with CHI 16, 7 May 2016 Registration 08:30 Welcome 09:30 PC members Keynote 10:00 Building a Social Physics Dr. Derek Ruths, McGill University Coffee Break 11:00 Panel 1: Empirical Studies 11:30 The Changing Nature of Viewership: Formality of Social Media Conversations Partha Mukherjee, Pennsylvania State University; Bernard J. Jansen, Qatar Computing Research Institute Post or Tweet: Lessons from a Study of Facebook and Twitter Usage Tasos Spiliotopoulos, University of Madeira; Ian Oakley School of Design and Human Engineering UNIST Ulsan Lunch 12:30 Tutorial 13:30 (Tutorial Title TBA) Dr. Christian Haas, Senior Big Data, Analytics, and Data Scientist Consultant Panel 2: Use Cases 14:30 Measuring Panic Awareness for Mass Panic Management Anuja Hariharan, Verena Dorner: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Information Movement Across Social Media Platforms During Crisis Events Amanda Hughes, Utah State University; Kate Starbird, University of Washington; Alex Leavitt, University of Southern California Los Angeles; Brian Keegan, Harvard Business School; Bryan Semaan, Syracuse University Towards Digitally Native Online Participation Platforms Claudia Niemeyer, Margeret Hall, Christof Weinhardt: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Coffee Break 15:30 Keynote 16:00 Next Generation Crowdsourcing for Collective Intelligence John Prpic, Lulea University of Technology Wrap-Up & Next Steps 17:00 Margeret Hall, General Chair UP2016 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI) Institute of Information Systems and Marketing (IISM) Dr. Margeret Hall Head of Research Group: Participation and Collaborative Services Strategic Initiative Leader: Participation and Crowd Services Englerstr. 11, 11.40 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Phone: +49 721 608-45873 Fax: +49 721 608-48399 Email: hall@kit.edu<mailto:hall@kit.edu> Web: http://www.ksri.kit.edu/ P Do you really need to print this email? KIT - The Research University in the Helmholtz Association