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My Dream Team Builder (MDT) is a social networking platform that was deployed with the goal of facilitating the assembly process of project teams. The platform provides the opportunity to better understand the assembly behaviors of people through the application of communication theories and the analysis of digital trace data. Matching and ranking algorithms were designed to provide theoretically driven recommendations for team membership. The platform is a web-based application where participants enter personal data in the form of a survey that is used as part of profile creation.
User answers personality and network based questions.
User sets query in the form of teammate preferences and importance.
Recommendation engine is fired to show possible set of teammates.
Users interact to grow their team.
My Dream Team has been developed and built by the SONIC Research Group at Northwestern University in close collaboration with the ATLAS lab of the Northwestern University (formerly DELTA Lab at Georgia Tech). My Dream Team uses preference matching and network heuristics to provide recommendations for team assembly and is based on ongoing research in the two labs.
The Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) research group advances social network theories, methods, and tools to better understand and meet the needs of diverse communities. SONIC develops cutting-edge techniques to study and improve social and knowledge networks in distributed working groups, online communities, virtual teams, and other large communities. Using a comprehensive methodology, SONIC researchers model, assess, validate, and enable the emergence of social and knowledge networks. SONIC helps communities discover their existing communication and knowledge networks, diagnose their network’s health by measuring its robustness, connectedness, bottlenecks, etc., and design the social incentives and technical infrastructure needed for networks to function at optimal effectiveness.
Professor | Northwestern University
Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science, the School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management and Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University.
Professor | Northwestern University
Leslie DeChurch is Professor of Communication Studies, and leads the Northwestern ATLAS lab. Her current work explores the dynamics through which teams form, and how these dynamics affect their performance as teams, and their ability to work as larger organizational systems (multiteam systems).
Senior Developer
Anup is a Senior Developer at the SONIC lab, Northwestern University and has helped incubate various research projects. He comes with a background in Web Development, Semantic Search and Machine Learning. He has a passion for Chess and Music.
Software Developer
Xiang did his Masters in Computer Science and has worked on a range of projects at the SONIC lab, Northwestern University. His interest is in Fullstack Web Development, Data Analytics, Data Mining and Automation.
Graduate Student Researcher
Diego is a Ph.D. candidate in Technology and Social Behavior program at Northwestern University. He has an M.S. in Computer Science at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is currently working at the SONIC Lab and studying how people assemble groups on online platforms.
Software Developer
Harshad did his Masters in Electrical Engineering and has worked on a range of projects at the SONIC lab, Northwestern University. His interest is in Fullstack Web Development. He has a passion for languages and music.