I am a Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at The University of Minnesota. As of 2025, I serve as Department Head for Computer Science & Engeering. I also co-lead the GroupLens Research Lab. My research areas are social computing, human-computer interaction, and intelligent systems. I focus on issues including detecting and addressing bias, methods for doing ethical research with online communities, and integrating human and machine intelligence in systems like Wikipedia. I have interface design expertise in contexts including mobile and location-aware systems, and web search and information management. I am active in my professional community, for example, having served as President of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction and chaired the main conferences in my field. I also consult frequently on intellectual property litigation cases in my areas of expertise.
Email: terveen@umn.edu, terveen@gmail.com Twitter: @lorenterveen
News
October 2025. I’m excited that two of our papers were recognized with Best Paper Awards at CSCW 2025.
- Levonian, Zachary, Matthew Zent, Ngan Nguyen, Matthew McNamara, Loren Terveen, and Svetlana Yarosh. “Peer Recommendation Interventions for Health-related Social Support: a Feasibility Assessment.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 9, no. 2 (2025): 1-59.
- Zent, Matthew, Seraphina Yong, Dhruv Bala, Stevie Chancellor, Joseph A. Konstan, Loren Terveen, and Svetlana Yarosh. “Beyond the Individual: A Community-Engaged Framework for Ethical Online Community Research.” PACM Human-Computer Interaction CSCW (2025).
August 2023. Stevie Chancellor and I got a new NSF grant! We’re going to investigate what it would take to integrate new types of knowledge into Wikipedia that can enrich and contextualize its encylopedic content without degrading Wikipedia’s accuracy and reliability. Project Title: “Revolutionalizing Wikipedia’s Relationship with New and Emerging Knowledge“
April 2023. I was honored to receive the 2023 SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award. I’ve spent much of my career taking on various roles within SIGCHI, it’s been tremendously rewarding to me, and this award was a nice recognition.
November 2022. The UMN Office of the Vice President of Research wrote a nice article about our (Stevie Chancellor, Mo Houtti, Moyan Zhou, and I) work on identifying and addressing barriers to participation in video conferencing. The paper is “All The White People Went First”: How Video Conferencing Consolidates Control and Exacerbates Workplace Bias.
October 2022. Two recent papers will be presented at CSCW 2022:
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- Houtti, Mo, Isaac Johnson, Joel Cepeda, Soumya Khandelwal, Aviral Bhatnagar, and Loren Terveen. “” We Need a Woman in Music”: Exploring Wikipedia’s Values on Article Priority.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.08426 (2022).
- Blog post: “What Wikipedians Want (But Struggle) To Prioritize“
- Zhang, Charles Chuankai, Mo Houtti, C. Estelle Smith, Ruoyan Kong, and Loren Terveen. “Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata Contributors’ Motivations.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6, no. CSCW1 (2022): 1-21.
- Houtti, Mo, Isaac Johnson, Joel Cepeda, Soumya Khandelwal, Aviral Bhatnagar, and Loren Terveen. “” We Need a Woman in Music”: Exploring Wikipedia’s Values on Article Priority.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.08426 (2022).
August 2022. I’m very excited to have received an NSF grant with my colleagues Lana Yarosh (PI), Stevie Chancellor (Co-PI), Kangjie Lu (Co-PI), and Joe Konstan (Co-PI) to research a topic near and dear to my heart: how to do ethical research with online communities. Project title: “Community-Engaged Design and Implementation of a Framework for Ethical Online Communities Research“
Professor Loren Terveen, University of Minnesota 