Wikibench
AI tools are increasingly deployed in community contexts. However, datasets used to evaluate AI are typically created by developers and annotators outside...
Applied Machine Learning, Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE), Human-Centered AI, Social Computing, Tools
What Makes Digital Support Effective?
Online mental health support communities have grown in recent years for providing accessible mental and emotional health support through volunteer counsel...
Shaping Online Dialogue
Community rules play a key part in enabling or constraining the behaviors of members in online communities. However, little is unknown regarding whether a...
Measuring the stigmatizing effects of a highly publicized event on online mental health discourse
Media coverage has historically played an influential and often stigmatizing role in the public’s understanding of mental illness through harmful language...
Matching for Peer Support
Online mental health communities (OMHCs) have emerged in recent years as an effective and accessible way to obtain peer support, filling crucial gaps of t...
Skeema
Skeema is a new way to manage your tabs that helps to declutter your browser and your mind. ...
Aniket (Niki) Kittur,
Empowering and Enhancing Workers Through Building A Community-Centered Gig Economy
The gig economy is characterized by short-term contract work performed by independent workers who are paid in return for the "gigs" they perform. Example ...
Haiyi Zhu
Incorporating and Balancing Stakeholder Values in Algorithm Design
This project will create a general method for value-sensitive algorithm design and develop tools and techniques to help incorporate the tacit values of st...
Haiyi Zhu
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE), Human-Centered AI, Social Computing
Digital Footprints
Personal information management and privacy is a major and increasing challenge. New internet architectures will make people and their interactions more t...
Social Computing
Technology-Enabled Role-Playing in Design
College professors frequently use role-playing in class as a way to engage their students and enhance the learning experience. However, role-playing often...
Amy Shannon Cook,
Supporting Newcomer Socialization in Online Production Communities
Online production communities are becoming increasingly important, because they are creating the software that drives the Internet, generating valuable sc...
Robert Kraut
Social Computing
Social Ideation Systems
This project investigates how social computing systems can optimize real-time creative collaboration, whether in teams or with crowds. We are actively dev...
Steven Dang,
Social Cybersecurity
Our research into the human factors of cybersecurity focuses on people as social actors whose security behaviors are influenced by their relationships, co...
PrivacyGrade
Many people are surprised to learn how much data smartphone apps are collecting about them. PrivacyGrade is a website we are creating that presents the re...
Jason Hong
Social Computing
Internet Support Groups
People facing serious health threats increasingly use the Internet to obtain information and support. Internet support groups (ISGs), online communities w...
Robert Kraut
Pediluma
Pediluma is a shoe accessory designed to encourage opportunistic physical activity. It features a light that brightens the more the wearer walks and slowl...
Combining Small Groups and Large Scale Collaboration
This research investigates the way that teams and communities collaborate online, with two aims: to develop new technologies to enhance collaboration and ...
Tiramisu
The Tiramisu project investigates how social media can provide new ways for citizens to take ownership of and responsibility for their public services. In...
Social Computing
User-Controllable Privacy and Security for Pervasive Computing
Currently, it is hard to manage privacy and security in mobile and pervasive computing environments, both for system administrators and end-users. We are ...
Techniques for Interactive Audience Participation
Systems enabling large audiences to interact offer numerous possibilities for entertainment, education, and team building. We are developing interaction t...
Social Computing
StepGreen
StepGreen is an umbrella project that brings together faculty and research from several disciplines including behavioral science, environmental engineerin...
Marmite: End User Programming for the Web
The goal of Marmite is to make it easy to create "mashups" that combine content from multiple web sites and web services. Marmite lets end-users extract c...
Jason Hong
inTouch: Awareness and Messaging for Mobile Groups
inTouch is a mobile messaging platform that provides group-based communities (such as families, research work groups, carpools, etc) a better way to coord...
Jason Hong
Social Computing
Social Ties in the Internet Age
Project description: Proximity generally increases the likelihood of personal and work relationships, and geographic mobility disrupts them. Is this true ...
Social Computing
Coordinating Attention and Communication
A call during dinner? While one party may value the conversation, the receiver thinks it is an interruption. This project examines the conditions under wh...
Social Computing
interACT
The international center for Advanced Communication Technologies is an international technology research lab. interACT is pioneering research in technolog...
Social Computing
Infocockpits
Infocockpits: computer interfaces that improve human memory. Humans are adept at remembering information based on its location relative to their body and ...
Social Computing
Gestures Project
In face-to-face settings, people use pointing and other gestures to communicate quickly and efficiently with their conversational partners. The aims of th...
Context Aware Computing
Context is any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity (person, place, or physical or computational object). A computing s...
Social Computing
Aura: Distraction-Free Ubiquitous Computing
The focus of the research is on automatic configuration of an environment such as a device-rich room at all levels (networks/ devices, software infrastruc...
Social Computing