Leysia Palen
About
Leysia Palen is a 2022 Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. She was the founding chair of the Department of Information Science, which lauched in 2015. In 2016, she was elected to the ACM CHI Academy. She is a faculty fellow with the Institute of Cognitive Science. From 2012-2017, Palen was Full Adjunct Professor at the University of Agder in Norway. Prof. Palen is a leader in the area of crisis informatics, an area she forged with her graduate students and colleagues at Colorado. She brings her training in human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work and social computing to bear on understanding and advancing socio-technical issues of societal import. She conducts empirical research in the interpretivist tradition. However, in the advancing arena of large-scale on-line interaction (the "big data" of crisis response), she adapts quantitative techniques that then allow the application of qualitative methods and the "ethnographic eye" to closely observe and describe social structures in such technology-mediated situations. For this work, Prof. Palen has been given the 2015 ACM Computer Human Interaction Social Impact Award.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Constructing meaning from space, gesture and talk
Year: 1993
Citations: 14
Venue: Discourse, tools, and reasoning: situated cognition and technologically
Latest Recorded Paper
The Social Convergence of Information Disorder: Discovery and Analysis of the “Fertile Ground” of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
Year: 2025
Citations: 1
Venue: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 34 (1)
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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