Social Computing

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

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 ...

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...

Personal information management and privacy is a major and increasing challenge. New internet architectures will make people and their interactions more t...

College professors frequently use role-playing in class as a way to engage their students and enhance the learning experience. However, role-playing often...

Online production communities are becoming increasingly important, because they are creating the software that drives the Internet, generating valuable sc...

This project investigates how social computing systems can optimize real-time creative collaboration, whether in teams or with crowds. We are actively dev...

Our research into the human factors of cybersecurity focuses on people as social actors whose security behaviors are influenced by their relationships, co...

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...

People facing serious health threats increasingly use the Internet to obtain information and support. Internet support groups (ISGs), online communities w...

Pediluma is a shoe accessory designed to encourage opportunistic physical activity. It features a light that brightens the more the wearer walks and slowl...

This research investigates the way that teams and communities collaborate online, with two aims: to develop new technologies to enhance collaboration and ...

The Tiramisu project investigates how social media can provide new ways for citizens to take ownership of and responsibility for their public services. In...

Currently, it is hard to manage privacy and security in mobile and pervasive computing environments, both for system administrators and end-users. We are ...

Systems enabling large audiences to interact offer numerous possibilities for entertainment, education, and team building. We are developing interaction t...

StepGreen is an umbrella project that brings together faculty and research from several disciplines including behavioral science, environmental engineerin...

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...

inTouch is a mobile messaging platform that provides group-based communities (such as families, research work groups, carpools, etc) a better way to coord...

Project description: Proximity generally increases the likelihood of personal and work relationships, and geographic mobility disrupts them. Is this true ...

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...

The international center for Advanced Communication Technologies is an international technology research lab. interACT is pioneering research in technolog...

Infocockpits: computer interfaces that improve human memory. Humans are adept at remembering information based on its location relative to their body and ...

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 is any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity (person, place, or physical or computational object). A computing s...

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...

This project brings together an interdisciplinary team with expertise in computer supported collaborative learning, language and information technologies,...

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...

Online communities are the fastest-growing portion of the Internet and provide members with information, social support, and entertainment. While a minori...

Hurricane Katrina had a profound effect on New Orleans and its music scene. Katrina devastated performance venues, dispersed bands and their audiences, an...