Loren Terveen

Loren Terveen
Loren Terveen in 2019
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Human-Computer Interaction
InstitutionsUniversity of Minnesota

Loren Terveen is an American computer scientist and was the president of the Association for Computing Machinery's SIGCHI professional group from 2015 to 2018.[1][2] Terveen is a professor of computer science and engineering[3] and studies human-computer interaction at GroupLens Research at the University of Minnesota.

In 2008, Terveen and colleagues created Cyclopath, a path recommender system for cyclists in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota.[4] Terveen co-authored the article "Evaluating collaborative filtering recommender systems", which has been cited almost four thousand times in scientific research.[5]

In 2023, Terveen received SIGCHI's Lifetime Service Award.[6]

Terveen's family is from Emery, South Dakota. He now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[7]

  1. ^ "Officers and Committees". Association for Computing Machinery - SIGCHI. Archived from the original on August 26, 2015. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  2. ^ Terveen, Loren (2015). "Greetings from the new SIGCHI leadership". ACM Interactions. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
  3. ^ Brown, Kristen V. (August 17, 2014). "Pinterest working to get more men onboard". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  4. ^ Farniok, Benjamin (July 8, 2015). "U professor's bike app gets revisions". Minnesota Daily. Archived from the original on July 17, 2015. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  5. ^ Herlocker, Jonathan L.; Konstan, Joseph A.; Terveen, Loren G.; Riedl, John T. (2004). "Evaluating collaborative filtering recommender systems". ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 22 (1): 5–53. doi:10.1145/963770.963772. S2CID 207731647.
  6. ^ Kumar, Neha (14 February 2023). "SIGCHI AWARDS 2023". Retrieved 2023-02-14.
  7. ^ "Verona Terveen, 89". Capital Journal. February 9, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2018.