Welcome to Werner Geyer's web site!
On this site you can find some information about my scientific work in the fields of Human Computer Interaction and Computer-Supported Collaborative Work, including my projects and publications. I am working as a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research lab in Cambridge in the Collaborative User Experience group. I am also part of the Center for Social Software.
My current research focuses on social software in the enterprise. I am particularliy interested in mechanisms to engage user communities. I've been leveraging concepts from recommender and incentive systems to build novel systems to engage users. My research involves designing, implementing, and deploying novel systems but also measuring success through quantitative and qualitative analysis of usage data. I work closely with product groups at IBM Lotus and over the years, our research has shaped products such as Lotus Connections or Lotus Notes. Sometimes this happens through simple designs and ideas, sometimes through results from trial deployement of novel systems, other times entire systems and code are being transferred.