Loren Terveen is an American
computer scientist and was the president of the
Association for Computing Machinery's
SIGCHI
The Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction (SIGCHI) is one of the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest groups which is focused on human–computer interactions (HCI).
It hosts the flagship annual international HC ...
professional group from 2015 to 2018. Terveen is a professor of computer science and engineering
and studies
human-computer interaction at
GroupLens Research
GroupLens Research is a human–computer interaction research lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities specializing in recommender systems and online communities. GroupLens also wor ...
at the
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...
.
In 2008, Terveen and colleagues created Cyclopath, a path
recommender system
A recommender system, or a recommendation system (sometimes replacing 'system' with a synonym such as platform or engine), is a subclass of information filtering system that provide suggestions for items that are most pertinent to a particular ...
for cyclists in
Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota. Terveen co-authored the article "Evaluating
collaborative filtering
Collaborative filtering (CF) is a technique used by recommender systems.Francesco Ricci and Lior Rokach and Bracha ShapiraIntroduction to Recommender Systems Handbook Recommender Systems Handbook, Springer, 2011, pp. 1-35 Collaborative filtering ...
recommender systems", which has been cited almost four thousand times in scientific research.
In 2023, Terveen received SIGCHI's Lifetime Service Award.
Terveen's family is from
Emery, South Dakota
Emery is a city in Hanson County, South Dakota, United States. It is part of the Mitchell, South Dakota Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 484 at the 2020 census.
History
The town was named for Sloan Miller (S.M.) Emery who file ...
. He now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Minnesota faculty