Kristin B. Stecher

Journal articles

Plaks, J. E. & Stecher, K. B. (2007). Unexpected change and unexpected stasis: A prediction and control perspective on achievement motivation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 663-667.

Conference Papers

Luther, K., Counts, S., Stecher, K.B., Hoff, A. & Johns, P. (2009). Pathfinder: an online collaboration environment for citizen scientists, In Proceedings of the 27th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI, 2009). ACM Press.

Stecher, K.B., Counts, S., Cheng, L., Williams, S., & Turski, A. (2009). Salsa: Leveraging email to create a social network for the enterprise. In Proceedings of the 3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM, 2009). ICWSM '09. AAAI Press.

Counts, S., & Stecher, K.B. (2009). Self-Presentation of personality during online profile creation. In Proceedings of the 3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM, 2009). ICWSM '09. AAAI Press.

Stecher, K.B. & Counts, S. (2008). Thin Slices of Online Profile Attributes, In Proceedings of the 2nd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM, 2008) ICWSM '08. AAAI Press.

Stecher, K.B. & Counts, S. (2008). Spontaneous inference of personality traits from online profiles, In Proceedings of the 2nd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM, 2008). ICWSM '08. AAAI Press.

Stecher, K. B. (2007). Identifying automatic processes in social computing. Position paper presented, Social Computing Workshop, ACM SIGGROUP 2007, Sanibel Island, FL.

Dissertation

Stecher, K.B. (2007). Spontaneous trait and goal inferences: A lay theories approach. Doctoral Dissertation University of Washington, December, 2007.

Posters and Presentations

(2009, September). Laird-McConnell, T., Cheng, L., Stecher, K. Micropedia: Positioning a bottom-up technology in the top-down enterprise, Redmond, WA.

(2009, June). Grudin, J., Stecher, K.B., Turski, A., Enterprise uses of emerging technologies. Poster presented at Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Boston, MA.

(2009, March). Counts, S., Stecher, K.B., Grudin, J. Enterprise uses of emerging technologies. Poster presented at Microsoft Research TechFest, Redmond, WA.

(2008, January). Stecher, K.B. & Plaks, J.E. The role of confidence ratings in the simultaneous spontaneous inferences of goals and traits. Poster presented at the 9th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tempe, AZ.

(2007, January). Stecher, K.B. & Plaks, J.E. Do we all infer alike? Evidence for theory driven spontaneous inferences. Poster presented at the 8th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.

(2005, January). Stecher, K. B. & Plaks, J. E. Lay Theories of Personality: How goals, traits, P x S and IPT are terms everyone can understand. Poster presented at the 6th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

(2004, February). Stecher, K. B. & Brown, J. D. Self-Esteem and Persistence: When the going gets tough, those with low self-esteem get going. Poster presented at the 5th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.

(2003, June). Stecher, K. B. First year project presentation: University of Washington Research Festival. Seattle, WA.

(2003, May). Knight, J. L. , Hebl, M. R. & Stecher, K. B. Casting anchors: The influence of news anchors' and evaluators' gender, race, and age on hiring perceptions. Poster presented at the 15th annual convention of the American Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA.

Reviewer

ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2008.

27th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2009.

28th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2010.

Recent Conferences

Enterprise 2.0 Conference, 2009, Boston, MA: June 22-25.

International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2009 San Jose, CA: May 17-20.

Microsoft Research TechFest, 2009 Redmond, WA: February 24.

International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2008 Seattle, WA: March 30- April 2.

Grace Hopper- Women in Computing Orlando, Florida: October 17-20.

GROUP- Invited Workshop- Social computing Sanibel Island, Florida: November 4-7.

Society for Personality and Social Psychology Albuquerque, New Mexico: February 7-9.

Contact me at: stech@u.washington.edu