Education

School of Information, University of Michigan
PhD in Information 2007 - 2012
Dissertation: “Exposure to Political Diversity Online”
Adviser: Paul Resnick
MSI Human Computer Interaction student 2006 - 2007
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA
Bachelors of Science of Engineering, Concentration in Systems Design 2006
Senior capstone: Traces: Mobile Location-Based Social Software

Teaching

Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
Instructor of Record
HCDE548 Advanced Topics in HCDE: Nudges in Sociotechnical SystemsWinter 2013
HCDE310 Communication Design & TechnologyAutumn 2012
School of Information, University of Michigan
Curriculum Developer
SI410 Ethics and Information TechnologySummer 2009
Graduate Student Instructor
EECS182/SI182 Building Applications for Information EnvironmentsWinter 2009
SI529 Analysis and Design of Online CommunitiesWinter 2009
SI501 Contextual Inquiry and Project ManagementFall 2009
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA
Curriculum Developer
FND1510 Engineering ComputingSummer 2002

Employment

University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Assistant Professor 2012 - present
Intel Labs Seattle / University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Visiting Researcher 2010
Boeing Payloads Concept Center, Everett, WA
Student Design Engineer 2006 - 2009
Summer Intern 2005
The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
Intern, Intelligent Information Access Group, Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems 2004
Spectrum Astro, Gilbert, AZ
Summer Intern, Strategic Planning and Proposal Operations Department 2003
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA
Library Website Developer 2002
York Telecom Corporation, Eatontown, NJ
Web Developer, Engineering Department 2000 - 2001
Affordable Web Designs, Little Silver NJ
Web developer / sole proprietor 1998 - 2000

Refereed Conference Papers with Proceedings

Munson, SA; Lee SY; Resnick P. (2013). “Encouraging Reading of Diverse Political Viewpoints with a Browser Widget” ICWSM 2013.
Munson, SA; Consolvo, S. (2012). “Exploring Goal-setting, Rewards, Self-monitoring, and Sharing to Motivate Physical Activity,” Pervasive Health 2012.
Munson, SA; Resnick, P. (2011). “The Prevalence of Political Discourse in Non-Political Blogs,” ICWSM 2011.
Munson, SA; Avrahami, D; Consolvo, S; Fogarty, J; Friedman, B; Smith, I. (2011). “Attitudes toward Online Availability of US Public Records,” dg.o 2011. (Best Research Paper Award)
Munson SA; Rosengren, E; Resnick, P. (2011). “Thanks and Tweets: Comparing Two Public Displays,” CSCW 2011.
Newman, MW; Lauterbach D; Munson, SA; Resnick, P; Morris, ME. (2011). “"It's not that I don't have problems, I'm just not putting them on Facebook": Challenges and Opportunities in Using Online Social Networks for Health,” CSCW 2011.
Munson, SA; Lauterbach, D; Newman, MW; Resnick, P. (2010). “Happier Together: Integrating a Wellness Application Into a Social Network Site,” Persuasive 2010. (Best Paper Nominee)
Munson, SA; Resnick, P. (2010). “Presenting Diverse Political Opinions: How and How Much,” CHI 2010.
Munson, SA; Zhou, DX; Resnick, P. (2009). “Sidelines: An Algorithm for Increasing Diversity in News and Opinion Aggregators,” ICWSM 2009.
Munson, SA. (2008). “Motivating and Enabling Organizational Memory with a Workgroup Wiki,” Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Wikis, Porto, Portugal.
Hansen, D; Ackerman, M; Resnick, P; Munson, SA. (2007). “Virtual Community Maintenance with a Repository,” Proceedings of ASIS&T 2007, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Fredholm, S; Krejcarek, J; Krumholz, S; Lindquist, D; Munson SA; Bourne, J; Schiffman, S. (2002). “Designing an Engineering Entrepreneurship Curriculum for Olin College,” ASEE Annual Meeting & Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Journal Article

Munson, SA; Avrahami, D; Consolvo, S; Fogarty, J; Friedman, B; Smith, I. (2012). “Sunlight or Sunburn: A Survey of Attitudes toward Online Availability of US Public Records,” Information Polity 17(2): 99-114.

Invited Articles

Munson, SA. (2011). “Beyond the share button: Making social network sites work for health and wellness.” IEEE Potentials 30(5): 42-47.
Chi, EH; Munson, SA; Fischer, G; Vieweg, S; Parr, C. (2010). “Advancing the Design of Technology-Mediated Social Participation Systems,” IEEE Computer 43(11): 29-35.
Hesse, B; Hansen, D; Finholt, T; Munson, SA; Kellogg, W; Thomas, JC. (2010). “Social Participation in Health 2.0,” IEEE Computer 43(11): 45-52.
Bertot, JC; Jaeger, PT; Munson, SA; Glaisyer, T. (2010). “Social Media Technologies and Government Transparency,” IEEE Computer 43(11): 53-59.

(Lightly) Refereed Presentations and Posters

Riley, W; Morris, ME; Munson, SA; Resnick, P. (2011). “AffectCheck: How Real-time Feedback on Affective Tone Influences Twitter Communication,” Medicine 2.0, Palo Alto, California.
Munson, SA; Zhou, DX; Resnick, P. (2009). “Designing Interfaces for Presentation of Opinion Diversity,” Extended Abstracts CHI 2009, Boston, Massachusetts.
Lee, D; Munson SA; Congleton, B; Ackerman, M; Newman, MW; Finholt, T; Hofer, E. (2009). “Montage: A platform for physically navigating multiple pages of web content,” Extended Abstracts CHI 2009, Boston, Massachusetts.
Hansen, D; Munson, SA (2008). “Patient-Driven Content Creation: Effectively Introducing Wiki Repositories to Virtual Support Communities,” Medicine 2.0, Toronto, Canada.
Munson, SA; Resnick, P (2008). “Political Discussions on Non-political Blogs,” Proceedings of Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing: Conference on Online Deliberation, Berkeley, California.
Gukeisen, M; Hutchful, D; Kleymeer, P; Munson, SA. (2007). “altVerto: Using interventions and community experiences to promote alternative transportation,” Extended Abstracts CHI 2007, San Jose, California. (First place, Student Design Competition.)
Chang, C; Ferro, L; Gibson, J; Hitzeman, J; Lubar, S; Palmer, J; Munson, SA; Vilain, M; and Wellner, B. (2006). “Maytag: A multi-staged approach to identifying complex events in textual data,” Conference of the European Chapter for Computational Linguistics, Trento, Italy.
Laughlin, C; Cummings, C; Lee, A; Munson, SA; Tsai, J. (2006). “They Speak: One-on-One Interviews with Female Engineering Students on Project-based Learning,” ASEE Regional Conference, 17 March 2006, Worchester, Massachusetts.

Invited Talks & Panels

“Beyond the share button: Challenges, Opportunities, and an Agenda for social features in health and wellness interventions,” Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China. 25 March 2013.
“Beyond the share button: Challenges and opportunities for social features in health and wellness interventions,” Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. 22 March 2013.
“Bursting Your (Filter) Bubble: Strategies for Promoting Diverse Exposure,” panel at CSCW 2013, San Antonio, Texas. 25 February 2013.
“#Winning: the Science of Elections Online” (panelist), Science Online Seattle, Pacific Science Center, Seattle, Washington. 23 October 2012.
“Swellness: Challenges & opportunities in using social software to support health and wellness,” External Advisory Board, School of Information, University of Michigan. 15 May 2012.
“Preferences & Nudges in Sociotechnical Systems,” University of Colorado Boulder. 18 April 2012.
“Adult immunization: Opportunities in social media and persuasive technology?,” a panel organized by The Keystone Center, Denver, Colorado. 17 April 2012.
“'It's not that I don't have problems, I'm just not putting them on Facebook': Challenges and Opportunities in Using Online Social Networks for Health,” FIRST Seminar, School of Information, University of Michigan. 18 February 2011.
“Selecting and Presenting Diverse Political Opinions Online,” dub Seminar, University of Washington. 21 July 2010.
“Happier Together: Integrating a Wellness Application Into a Social Network Site,” dub Seminar, University of Washington. 23 June 2010.
“Presenting Diverse Political Opinions: How and How Much,” FIRST Seminar, School of Information, University of Michigan. 15 January 2010.
“Mechanical Turk for Social Science,” Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar, School of Information, University of Michigan. With Eytan Bakshy. 28 October 2009.
“WikFest: Starting and Growing Successful Wikis” (panelist), 2008 International Symposium on Wikis, Porto, Portugal. 10 September 2008.
“Internet Meetups and Community,” 2006 Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium Student Conference, Wellesley, Massachusetts. 3 March 2006.

Workshops and Workshop Papers

Participant. Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Exploratory Workshop on Social Media and Health. University of British Columbia, 3-5 February 2013.
Munson, SA. (2012). “Pervasive, Persuasive Health: Some Challenges,” Workshop on Wellness Interventions and HCI, Pervasive Health 2012. 21 May 2012.
Munson, SA and Resnick, P. (2012). “Learning from Positive Psychology to Promote Emotional Well-Being in Digital Environments,” Interaction Design and Emotional Wellbeing Workshop, CHI 2012. 6 May 2012.
Munson, SA. (2012). “Mindfulness, Reflection, and Persuasion in Personal Informatics,” Personal Informatics Workshop, CHI 2012. 6 May 2012.
Participant. Ultra-large-scale Interaction Workshop, CCC/CRA Roadmapping for Interactive Technology. Chicago, IL, 25-27 October 2010.
Munson, SA. (2010). “Participation and Polarization,” Technology Mediated Social Participation. NSF Workshop. Ballston, VA, 22-23 April 2010.
Munson, SA; Lauterbach, D; Newman, M, Resnick, P; Morris, M. (2010) “Integrating Wellness Interventions with Existing Social Network Sites,” Wellness Informatics Workshop. CHI 2010. 10 April 2010.
Munson, SA; Lauterbach, D; Newman, M, Resnick, P; Morris, M. (2010). “The Opportunity of Social Computing to Make Us Healthier Together,” Workshop on CSCW Research in Healthcare: Past, Present, and Future. CSCW 2010.

Doctoral Consortia & Mentoring Programs

Summer Institute, Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems. June 2011. Captiva Island, Florida.
Doctoral Consortium. Persuasive 2010. June 2010. Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mentoring Program. Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare, CHI 2010. April 2010. Atlanta, Georgia.
Doctoral Consortium. Conference on Communities and Technologies. June 2009. Pennsylvania State University.

Research Funding

“Impacts of Public Announcements of Goals and Outcomes on Goal Completion.” Applying Behavioral Economics to Persistent Health Challenge, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Co-authored with PIs Paul Resnick, Caroline Richardson, and Erin Krupka. $99,626.
Intel PhD Fellowship. 2011.
REU Supplement to “BALANCE: Optimizing News and Opinion Aggregators for Diversity.” NSF IIS Small #0916099 Amendment #001. Supplement coauthored with PI Paul Resnick. $16,000.
“BALANCE: Optimizing News and Opinion Aggregators for Diversity.” NSF IIS Small #0916099. Co-authored with PI Paul Resnick and Daniel Xiaodan Zhou. $499,312.
“Social Software for Wellness Interventions.” 2009. University of Michigan Rackham Graduate Pre-Candidate Research Grant. $1,500.
REU Supplement to “Manipulation-Resistant Recommender Systems.” NSF IIS Small #0812042 Amendment #001. Supplement coauthored with investigator Paul Resnick. $16,000.
“Opinion Diversity in Online Political Discussions.” 2008. Yahoo! Key Technical Challenge Grant. $5,000.

Patent

Franko, B; Giuntoli, D; Senoadi, N; Robb, C; Munson, SA; Bengtsson, R; Mitchell, B; Fletcher, H (2006). Flight Portal, United States Patent #7,777,718.

Professional & Institutional Service

Panel and Workshop Organization
Kamal N, Fels S, Fergusson M, Preece J, Cosley D, Munson SA. “Designing Social Media for Change” workshop for CHI 2013, Paris, France.
Introne J, Levy K, Munson SA, Goggins S, Wash R, Aragon C. “Design, Influence, and Social Technologies: Techniques, Impacts and Ethics,” workshop for CSCW 2012, Seattle, Washington.
Huh J, Hartzler A, Munson SA, Anderson N, Edwards K, Gore JL, O'Leary J, Parker A, Streat D, Yetisgen-Yildiz M, Pratt W, Ackerman MS. “Brainstorming Design for Health: Helping Patients Utilize Patient-Generated Information on the Web,” workshop for CSCW 2012, Seattle, Washington.
Morris ME, Consolvo S, Markle K, Munson SA (co-organizers), Patrick K, and Tsai J. (2011). “Facebook for Health: Opportunities and Challenges for Driving Behavior Change,” panel for CHI 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Hemphill L, Munson SA (co-organizers; 2008). “Training, Integration, and Identity: A Roundable Discussion of Undergraduate and Professional Master's Programs in iSchools,” iConference 2008, Los Angeles, California
Conference Committees
SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    Program Committee: Interaction Beyond the Individual 2013
    Workshop jury 2012 - 2013
    Works-in-Progress program committee 2011
AAAI International Conference on Weblogs & Social Media Program Committee 2011 - 2013
Human Computer Interaction Consortium. Venue selection (2010; for 2011), co-webmaster (2010), webmaster (2011).
Reviewer
Association for Computing Machinery
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)
Hypertext and Social Media
Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp)
Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
Transactions on Human Computer Interaction (TOCHI)
Conference on Communities and Technologies
Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Journal of Information Technology & Politics
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
The Information Society
International Conference on Information Systems
Information Polity
Policy & Internet
Funding Reviewer
Institute of Translational Health Sciences
Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
Bachelor's Task Force2012 - present
Space Committee2012 - present
Technology Committee2012 - present
School of Information, University of Michigan
Student organizer & Co-Founder, Michigan Interactive and Social Computing Group2010 - 2011
Doctoral Committee2010 - 2011
Executive Committee, Doctoral Student Organiation2010 - 2011
North Quad Committee (new facility)2009 - 2010
Faculty Search Committee2008 - 2009
Curriculum Committee2006 - 2007
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Strategic Advisory Committee2005 - 2006
Organizational Health Committee2003 - 2004
Information Technology Working Group2002 - 2004
Council of Olin Representatives (student government)
    Vice President of Student Initiatives
    President
    Development committee member
2003 - 2004
2002 - 2003
2001 - 2002
Olin Volunteer Ambassadors League2001 - 2004
Curricular Decision Making Board2002
Olin Partner Year2001 - 2002

Community Service

FIRST Robotics Competition
Advised students on team at Hyde Park High School, Hyde Park, MA2004
Autodesk Visualization Award — created system for regional judging2003
Advised 14-school team, created demonstration board featured at the kick-off workshop2002
Boy Scouts of America
Order of the Arrow Vigil Honor member, Lodge Chief, Section Vice Chief1997 - 2002
Junior Leadership Training Course Staff, Monmouth Council2000 - 2001
Count Basie Learning Center, Red Bank, NJ
Systems and Network Administrator1998 - 2001

Awards

Gary M. Olson Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award, School of Information, University of Michigan2010
Yahoo! Innovative Teaching with Technology Award2009
First place, CHI Student Design Competition2007
School of Information Scholarship2006 - 2007
Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation GRFP2006, 2007
Olin Scholarship2001 - 2006
AT&T Scholarship2001 - 2005
NASA MarsPort Competition - led finalist team & Outreach Award winner2002
Founders Award, Order of the Arrow, BSA2001
National Merit Scholar2001
Eagle Scout, BSA1999