Social Computing
Pediluma
PROJECTPediluma 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
PROJECTThis research investigates the way that teams and communities collaborate online, with two aims: to develop new technologies to enhance collaboration and ...
Tiramisu
PROJECTThe Tiramisu project investigates how social media can provide new ways for citizens to take ownership of and responsibility for their public services. In...
Social Ties in the Internet Age
PROJECTProject description: Proximity generally increases the likelihood of personal and work relationships, and geographic mobility disrupts them. Is this true ...
inTouch: Awareness and Messaging for Mobile Groups
PROJECTinTouch is a mobile messaging platform that provides group-based communities (such as families, research work groups, carpools, etc) a better way to coord...
Marmite: End User Programming for the Web
PROJECTThe 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...
StepGreen
PROJECTStepGreen is an umbrella project that brings together faculty and research from several disciplines including behavioral science, environmental engineerin...
Techniques for Interactive Audience Participation
PROJECTSystems enabling large audiences to interact offer numerous possibilities for entertainment, education, and team building. We are developing interaction t...
User-Controllable Privacy and Security for Pervasive Computing
PROJECTCurrently, it is hard to manage privacy and security in mobile and pervasive computing environments, both for system administrators and end-users. We are ...
Coordination in Open Source Software Development
PROJECTOpen-source software runs the Internet and challenges commercial software in many areas. Despite this success, it is not clear how the open-source paradig...
ADEPT
PROJECTThis project brings together an interdisciplinary team with expertise in computer supported collaborative learning, language and information technologies,...
Aura: Distraction-Free Ubiquitous Computing
PROJECTThe focus of the research is on automatic configuration of an environment such as a device-rich room at all levels (networks/ devices, software infrastruc...