I am a designer, builder and researcher of social, ubiquitous and urban computing systems. My research explores and challenges prevailing notions of hyper-local urban communities in the age of social and ubiquitous computation. I'm a researcher at Microsoft Research FUSE Labs, and a computer science PhD student (ABD) at SCS@CMU.

I'm often inspired by: music, design, architecture, human-computer interaction, people, coffee, machine learning, photography, engineering, and long walks in great cities. When I'm lucky, sometimes this shows through my work.

Contact me at justin@cranshaw.me, or on twitter @compurbanist.

Selected Publications full list of publications google scholar profile

Curated City: Capturing Individual City Guides Through Social Curation.
Justin Cranshaw, Kurt Luther, Patrick Gage Kelley, Norman Sadeh. CHI, 2014: Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
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The Livehoods Project: Utilizing Social Media to Understand the Dynamics of a City.
Justin Cranshaw, Raz Schwartz, Jason I. Hong, Norman Sadeh. ICWSM, 2012: Proceedings of the Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs an Social Media.
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Whose "City of Tomorrow" Is It? On Urban Computing, Utopianism, and Ethics.
Justin Cranshaw. KDD Workshops, 2013: Proceedings of the 2013 Workshop on Urban Computing.
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News

The CMU homepage featured a story about my work on Urban Computing and Microsoft's Journeys & Notes release.
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Journeys & Notes is one of Gizmodo's favorite apps of the week!
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The app I built with Andrés and Sarah at FUSE Labs this summer is now available world wide on Android! Check out Journeys & Notes!
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I wrote a blog post about my MSR internship work on designing for non-places.
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Over the 2014 Summer, I'll be an intern at Microsoft Research, Fuse Labs, working with Andrés Monroy-Hernández on social computing for transportation.
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Our paper on Curated City was accepted to CHI 2014. Curated City: Capturing Individual City Guides Through Social Curation.
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New essay: Whose 'City of Tomorrow' Is It? On Urban Computing, Utopianism, and Ethics.
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I've been awarded a 2013-2014 Facebook Fellowship in Human-Computer Interaction.
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Our work introducing the Livehoods Project won the best paper award at ICWSM 2012!
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I was recently on the CBC Radio program Spark talking with host Nora Young about the Livehoods Project.
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I gave a seminar talk Microsoft Research in Redmond on Livehoods and a broader context for urban computing.
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