I combine computation with crowds, creating systems that enable people to connect and coordinate online. My group's research in human-computer interaction develops crowdsourcing systems, designs social computing environments, and mines crowd data for interactive applications.
Michael Bernstein is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he is a member of the Human-Computer Interaction group and a Robert N. Noyce Family Faculty Scholar. His research in human-computer interaction focuses on the design of crowdsourcing and social computing systems. This work has received Best Paper awards and nominations at premier venues in human-computer interaction and social computing (ACM UIST, ACM CHI, ACM CSCW, AAAI ISWSM). Michael was awarded the George M. Sprowls Award for best doctoral thesis in Computer Science at MIT. He holds Ph.D. and masters degrees in Computer Science from MIT, and a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.
 | Crowd-scale Interactive Formal Reasoning and Analytics Ethan Fast, Colleen Lee, Alex Aiken, Michael Bernstein, Daphne Koller, Eric Smith UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2013 |
 | Quantifying the Invisible Audience in Social Networks Michael S. Bernstein, Eytan Bakshy, Moira Burke, Brian Karrer CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2013 honorable mention pdf · slides |
 | EmailValet: Managing Email Overload through Private, Accountable Crowdsourcing Nicolas Kokkalis, Thomas Köhn, Carl Pfeiffer, Dima Chornyi, Michael S. Bernstein, Scott R. Klemmer CSCW: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2013 pdf · video · slides · project site |
 | The Future of Crowd Work Aniket Kittur, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Michael S. Bernstein, Elizabeth M. Gerber, Aaron Shaw, John Zimmerman, Matthew Lease, and John J. Horton CSCW: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2013 pdf · slides |
 | Crowd-Powered Systems Michael Bernstein PhD Dissertation 2012 George M. Sprowls Award for best doctoral thesis in Computer Science at MIT pdf · video · slides |
 | Direct Answers for Search Queries in the Long Tail Michael Bernstein, Jaime Teevan, Susan Dumais, Dan Liebling and Eric Horvitz CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2012 honorable mention pdf · slides |
 | Analytic Methods for Optimizing Realtime Crowdsourcing Michael Bernstein, David Karger, Rob Miller, and Joel Brandt CI: Collective Intelligence 2012 pdf · slides |
 | Who Gives A Tweet? Evaluating Microblog Content Value Paul Andre, Michael Bernstein, and Kurt Luther CSCW: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2012 honorable mention pdf · slides · project site |
 | Crowds in Two Seconds: Enabling Realtime Crowd-Powered Interfaces Michael Bernstein, Joel Brandt, Rob Miller, and David Karger UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2011 pdf · video · slides |
 | 4chan and /b/: An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community Michael Bernstein, Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Drew Harry, Paul Andre, Katrina Panovich, and Greg Vargas ICWSM: International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media 2011 best paper pdf · video · slides · project site |
 | TwitInfo: Aggregating and Visualizing Microblogs for Event Exploration Adam Marcus, Michael Bernstein, Osama Badar, David Karger, Samuel Madden, and Rob Miller CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2011 pdf · slides · project site |
 | PingPong++: Community Customization in Games and Entertainment Xiao Xiao, Michael Bernstein, Lining Yao, David Lakatos, Lauren Gust, Kojo Acquah, and Hiroshi Ishii ACE: International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology 2011 pdf · project site |
 | Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside Michael Bernstein, Greg Little, Rob Miller, Bjoern Hartmann, Mark Ackerman, David Karger, David Crowell, and Katrina Panovich UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2010 best student paper pdf · video · slides · project site |
 | Eddi: Interactive Topic-Based Browsing of Social Status Streams Michael Bernstein, Bongwon Suh, Lichan Hong, Jilin Chen, Sanjay Kairam, and Ed H. Chi UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2010 pdf · video · slides · project site |
 | Personalization via Friendsourcing Michael Bernstein, Desney Tan, Greg Smith, Mary Czerwinski, and Eric Horvitz ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 2010 pdf · video · slides · project site |
 | Enhancing Directed Content Sharing on the Web Michael Bernstein, Adam Marcus, David Karger, and Rob Miller CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2010 pdf · slides · project site |
 | Short and Tweet: Experiments on Recommending Content from Information Streams Jilin Chen, Rowan Nairn, Les Nelson, Michael Bernstein, and Ed Chi CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2010 pdf · project site |
 | Collabio: A Game for Annotating People within Social Networks Michael Bernstein, Desney Tan, Greg Smith, Mary Czerwinski, and Eric Horvitz UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2009 pdf · video · slides · project site |
 | Note to Self: Examining Personal Information Keeping in a Lightweight Note-Taking Tool Max Van Kleek, Michael Bernstein, Katrina Panovich, Greg Vargas, David Karger, and mc schraefel CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2009 honorable mention pdf · project site |
 | Taskpose: Exploring Fluid Boundaries via an Associative Window Visualization Michael Bernstein, Jeff Shrager, and Terry Winograd UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2008 pdf · slides |
 | Inky: A Sloppy Command Line for the Web with Rich Visual Feedback Rob Miller, Vikki Chou, Michael Bernstein, Greg Little, Max Van Kleek, David Karger, and mc schraefel UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2008 pdf · video · slides · project site |
 | Information Scraps: How and Why Information Eludes our Personal Information Management Tools Michael Bernstein, Max Van Kleek, David Karger, and mc schraefel ACM Transactions on Information Systems 2008 |
| Information Scraps: Understanding and Design Michael Bernstein Massachusetts Institute of Technology masters thesis 2008 |
 | GUI — Phooey!: The Case for Text Input Max Van Kleek, Michael Bernstein, David Karger, and mc schraefel UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2007 pdf · video · slides · project site |
 | Reflective Physical Prototyping through Integrated Design, Test, and Analysis Björn Hartmann, Scott R. Klemmer, Michael Bernstein, Leith Abdulla, Brandon Burr, Avi Robinson-Mosher, Jennifer Gee UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2006 best paper pdf · video · slides · project site |
 | Taskpose: A Dynamic Task-Based Window Management Aid Michael Bernstein Stanford University honors thesis 2006 |
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
Stanford University
Human-Computer Interaction group
msb@cs.stanford.edu
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Talks & Travel
| 19 Aug | CSCW PC |
| 19 Aug | Drexel University |
Students and Post-docs
Chinmay Kulkarni
Ethan Fast
Joy Kim
Justin Cheng
Nicolas Kokkalis
Teaching
Spring 2014
CS 376: Research Topics in HCI
CS 547: HCI Seminar
Winter 2014
CS 147: Introduction to HCI
CS 547: HCI Seminar
Fall 2013
CS 547: HCI Seminar
Spring 2013
CS 376: Research Topics in HCI
CS 547: HCI Seminar
Winter 2013
CS 247: Interaction Design Studio
Our work is made possible through the generosity of the National Science Foundation, the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Microsoft Research, Google Research, Yahoo! Research, the Hasso Plattner Research Program, HTC, and Adobe Research.