
Skeema
Skeema is a new way to manage your tabs that helps to declutter your browser and your mind. ...

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...
Jennifer Mankoff
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...
Anind Dey
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
ADEPT
This project brings together an interdisciplinary team with expertise in computer supported collaborative learning, language and information technologies,...
Carolyn Rosé
Social Computing
Coordination in Open Source Software Development
Open-source software runs the Internet and challenges commercial software in many areas. Despite this success, it is not clear how the open-source paradig...
Social Computing

Social Computing Lab
Online communities are the fastest-growing portion of the Internet and provide members with information, social support, and entertainment. While a minori...
Sara Kiesler, Aniket (Niki) Kittur, John Zimmerman, Jeffrey Bigham, Jeffrey Rzeszotarski, Haiyi Zhu, Jennifer Marlow, Jason Hong, Robert Kraut,
Social Computing
Adapting to disaster
Hurricane Katrina had a profound effect on New Orleans and its music scene. Katrina devastated performance venues, dispersed bands and their audiences, an...
Social Computing