Martin Dittus

Martin Dittus
PhD Student
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+44 20 3108 7086
UCLIC, University College London
66 - 72 Gower Street
London, WC1E 6EA
United Kingdom

Brief biography

Martin Dittus studied computing in Berlin, worked as a software developer and project manager at the Internet startup Last.fm, and was awarded a master's degree at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at UCL.
His research focus at the ICRI Cities is to understand the interactions, tools, and processes of large data-gathering communities such as OpenStreetMap. He is particularly interested in informal means of data-driven knowledge production that don't have to rely on well-funded specialists, and in the challenges of coordinating large numbers of self-motivated contributors.
Martin is a trustee of the London Hackspace, a community-run and non-profit workshop space in East London, with 900 members and growing. He is on the board of advisors of the Trampery, East London's fast-growing shared workspace. In 2013 Martin was one of the initiators of Hack the Barbican, where for a month a large number of participants across disciplines took over the foyer spaces of London's Barbican Centre. In 2012 he was an organiser of the Electromagnetic Field hacker camping festival, and previously he spent several months with Occupy London where he was involved in the coordination of this large and distributed community.

Research Publications

Authors
Title
Year
Publication
Martin Dittus, G Quattrone, L Capra Mass Participation During Emergency Response: Event-centric Crowdsourcing in Humanitarian Mapping 2017 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Conference proceeding, Portland, OR
G Quattrone, Martin Dittus, L Capra Work Always in Progress: Analysing Maintenance Practices in Spatial Crowd-sourced Datasets 2017 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Conference proceeding, Portland, OR
Martin Dittus, G Quattrone, L Capra Social Contribution Settings and Newcomer Retention in Humanitarian Crowd Mapping 2016 8th International Conference on Social Informatics, Conference proceeding, Bellevue, WA
G Quattrone, Martin Dittus, L Capra Exploring Maintenance Practices in Crowd-Mapping 2016 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Conference proceeding
Martin Dittus Large-scale Volunteer Engagement in Humanitarian Mapping 2016 Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion, Conference proceeding, US
Martin Dittus, L Capra, G Quattrone Analysing Volunteer Engagement in Humanitarian Mapping: Building Contributor Communities at Large Scale 2016 Roceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, Conference proceeding, US