Research - Dr. J. Ben Schafer

Publications

• Schafer, J.B. and East, J.P., "Creating a High Quality, High Impact CS Teacher Prep Program"  SIGCSE TS 2022, Providence, Rhode Island.
• Carberry, A., Klassner, F.,  Schafer, J.B., and Varnado, T.  (2014)   "The Efficacy of LEGO Products in the Classroom: A Literature Review"   A white-paper written for LEGO Education, Inc. 
  
• Schafer, J.B. and Hughes, S., (2012),  "Student-Owned Devices for Classroom-wide Communication and Collaboration," Proceedings of the 45th Annual MICS Symposium. [Peer Reviewed Abstracts.  90% acceptance rate].
• Schafer, J.B. and Hughes, S., (2012), "A Customizable Platform for Classroom Collaboration Using Mobile Devices" Poster Session Presentation, SIGCSE 2012, March 1st-3rd, 2012, Raleigh, NC. [30% acceptance rate]
• Schafer, J.B., (2008), "The Application of Data-Mining to Recommender Systems,"  Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, 2nd edition, Wang, J. (Editor).  Information Science Publishing.
• Manaris, B., Wainer, M., Barnes, J., Kirkpatrick, A., Schafer, J.B., Shannon, C., and Wright, J. (2007)  "Incorporating HCI into the Computer Science Curriculum: Bloom’s Taxonomy Meets the CC’01 Curricular Guidelines"  Accepted for publication in The Journal of Computer Science Education. 
• Schafer, J.B., Frankowski, D., Herlocker, J., and Sen, S. (2007),  "Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems,"  appears in The Adaptive Web, Springer Verlag.  [Link to Springer-Verlag Content Link system]
• Schafer, J.B., Konstan, J.A., and Riedl, J. (2006), "Recommender Systems for the Web."  Chapter 6 of Visualizing the Semantic Web, 2nd edition, Geroimenko, V., and Chen, C. editors.  Springer Verlag.
  
• Schafer, J.B., (2005),  "The Integration of the Software Studio Approach into the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum," Proceedings of the 28th Annual MICS Symposium. [PDF].
• Schafer, J.B., (2005), "The Application of Data-Mining to Recommender Systems,"   in Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, Wang, J. (Editor).  Information Science Publishing. [PDF of pre-publication version].
• East, J.P., and Schafer, J.B (2005), "In-Person Grading : An Evaluative Experiment," Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group, Computer Science Education (SIGCSE-05). [PDF].
• Schafer, J.B. (2005) "DynamicLens: A Dynamic User-Interface for A Meta-Recommendation System."  Accepted for publication as part of "Beyond Personalization 2005: A Workshop on the Next Stage of Recommender Systems Research" at the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces. [PDF]
• Schafer, J.B., Konstan, J.A., and Riedl, J. (2004), "The View through MetaLens: Usage Patterns for a Meta-Recommendation System,"  IEE Proceedings Software, Vol. 151, No. 6, December 2004, pp 267-279.  IEE Publishing. [PDF of pre-publication version].
• Schafer, J.B., (2004),  "Hands-on Artificial Intelligence Education using the LEGO Mindstorms: Lessons Learned," Proceedings of the 27th Annual MICS Symposium. [PDF].
• Schafer, J.B., Konstan, J.A., and Riedl, J. (2002), "Meta-recommender Systems: User-controlled Integration of Diverse Recommendations," Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-02).  [PDF].
• Schafer, J.B., Konstan, J.A., and Riedl, J. (2001), "E-Commerce Recommender Applications," Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, vol 5 nos.1/2, pp 115-152.  (Also appeared as a chapter in Kohavi and Provost (editors) (2001), Applications of Data Mining to Electronic Commerce,Kluwer Academic Publishers.) [PDF]
• Schafer, J.B., MetaLens: A Framework for Multisource Recommendations, Ph.D. Thesis. [PDF]
• Schafer, J.B., Konstan, J.A., and Riedl, J. (1999), "Recommender Systems in Electronic Commerce," Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-99). [PDF].
• Good, N., Schafer, J.B., Konstan, J.A., Borchers, A., Sarwar, B., Herlocker, J., and Riedl, J. (1999), "Combining Collaborative Filtering with Personal Agents for Better Recommendations," Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI99). [PDF].
• Schafer, J.B., Good, N. (1999), "Talk to my Agents: Research Issues in Combining Information Filtering Agents with Collaborative Filtering," Position Paper for Ch'99 Workshop: Interacting with Recommender Systems (CHI99).  [PDF]
• Gustafson, T., Schafer, J.B., and Konstan, J.A (1998), "Agents in Their Midst: Evaluating User Adaptation to Agent Assisted Software," Proceedings of the Eighth Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (IUI98), pp 163-170.  [PDF].
• Schafer, J.B. (1992), "Fractal Geometry: A General Overview," The Pentagon, Vol. 51 (2), pp 3-16.

With Students

• Bardell, C, Hughes, S. and Schafer, J.B. (2013)   "Human Performance with Multiple Devices Influencing a Single Cursor."   Proceedings of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 57th Annual Meeting, September 30-October 4th, 2013, San Diego, CA  [65% acceptance rate for the paper’s track.]
• Mangel, A., Preston, A., Schafer, J.B. and Hughes, S., (2012),  "Architecture Design to Support a Smartphone-based Student Response System," Proceedings of the 45th Annual MICS Symposium. [Faculty Advisor for Student Paper. Peer Reviewed Abstract].
• Frederick, N., O’Kane, K., Schafer, J.B., (2004),  "What’s the Score?: Converting Textual Reviews to Numerical Scores in the Domain of Movies,"  Proceedings of the 27th Annual MICS Symposium.