| 2026 | AAAI | LocalBench: Benchmarking LLMs on County-Level Local Knowledge and Reasoning. | Zihan Gao, Yifei Xu, Jacob Thebault-Spieker |
| 2026 | CHI | PlaceWeave: Understanding Place Through Social Video Narratives and Graph-Enhanced Local Knowledge. | Zihan Gao, Jacob Thebault-Spieker |
| 2026 | CHI | Beyond Access: Contextualizing the Benefits of Broadband through Contributor Dynamics on Wikipedia. | Yaxuan Yin, Jacob Thebault-Spieker |
| 2025 | CSCW | From Clips to Communities: Fusing Social Video into Knowledge Graphs for Localness-Aware LLMs. | Zihan Gao, Jiaying Liu, Yifei Xu, Jacob Thebault-Spieker |
| 2024 | CSCW | Understanding Perceptions of the Reddit Reaction Mechanism in Political Subreddits. | Longjie Guo, Yaxuan Yin, Jacob Thebault-Spieker |
| 2021 | CSCW | Do We Fix it or Burn it Down? Towards Practicable Critique at CSCW. | Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Stevie Chancellor, Michael Ann DeVito, Niloufar Salehi, Alex Leavitt, David R. Karger, Katta Spiel |
| 2020 | ICTD | Wiki HUEs: Understanding Wikipedia practices through Hindi, Urdu, and English takes on evolving regional conflict. | Molly G. Hickman, Viral Pasad, Harsh Sanghavi, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Sang Won Lee |
| 2018 | CHI | Distance and Attraction: Gravity Models for Geographic Content Production. | Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Aaron Halfaker, Loren G. Terveen, Brent J. Hecht |
| 2018 | Group | Geographic Biases are 'Born, not Made': Exploring Contributors' Spatiotemporal Behavior in OpenStreetMap. | Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Brent J. Hecht, Loren G. Terveen |
| 2017 | CHI | The Geography of Pokmon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement. | Ashley Colley, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Allen Yilun Lin, Donald Degraen, Benjamin Fischman, Jonna Hkkil, Kate Kuehl, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Jardim Nunes, Nina Wenig, Dirk Wenig, Brent J. Hecht, Johannes Schning |
| 2017 | CHI | Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer Production Community. | Andrew Hall, Sarah McRoberts, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Yilun Lin, Shilad Sen, Brent J. Hecht, Loren G. Terveen |
| 2017 | ICWSM | Understanding Emoji Ambiguity in Context: The Role of Text in Emoji-Related Miscommunication. | Hannah Jean Miller, Daniel Kluver, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Loren G. Terveen, Brent J. Hecht |
| 2016 | CSCW | Exploring Engagement in a 'Social Crowd' on Twitter. | Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Angbang Xu, Jilin Chen, Jalal Mahmud, Jeffrey Nichols |
| 2016 | ICWSM | "Blissfully Happy" or "Ready toFight": Varying Interpretations of Emoji. | Hannah Jean Miller, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Shuo Chang, Isaac L. Johnson, Loren G. Terveen, Brent J. Hecht |
| 2015 | CSCW | Avoiding the South Side and the Suburbs: The Geography of Mobile Crowdsourcing Markets. | Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Loren G. Terveen, Brent J. Hecht |
| 2015 | WWW | User Session Identification Based on Strong Regularities in Inter-activity Time. | Aaron Halfaker, Oliver Keyes, Daniel Kluver, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Tien T. Nguyen, Kenneth Shores, Anuradha Uduwage, Morten Warncke-Wang |