research_areas.json

{
	"area": [
		{
			"title": "New Mediums for Discourse and Remote Collaboration",
			"description": "<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The tools we use for online discussion have changed little in decades. But these designs bake in assumptions about discussion that limit our capabilities for collaboration. How can we design new mediums for online discourse that make it easier to listen, share, and create?</span>",
			"author2": [
				{
					"author_name2": "Ruotong Wang"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Ge Zhang"
				}
			],
			"project": [
				{
					"project_name": "Tilda",
					"project_url": "http://tildachat.com/",
					"@type": "item"
				},
				{
					"project_url": "http://wikum.org/",
					"project_name": "Wikum",
					"@type": "item"
				}
			],
			"peoples": {
				"author2": []
			}
		},
		{
			"title": "Community Resilience, Collective Action, and Self-Governance",
			"description": "<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Despite their growth, online communities have few tools to shape their own norms and rules, resulting in top-down governance structures that cause burn out and strife. We design democratic structures that support community resilience as well as tools for self-governance.</span>",
			"project": [
				{
					"project_url": "http://policykit.org/",
					"project_name": "PolicyKit",
					"@type": "item"
				},
				{
					"project_url": "http://digitaljuries.com/",
					"project_name": "Digital Juries",
					"@type": "item"
				}
			],
			"author2": [
				{
					"author_name2": "Ricky Grannis-Vu"
				}
			]
		},
		{
			"title": "End User Empowerment and Localized Tools",
			"description": "<span style=\"/* font-family: -webkit-standard; */font-size: 14px;\">Many software applications and ML models today follow a one-size-fits-all approach, leaving marginalized groups with no recourse. Instead, we consider tools that give power back to end users so they can build solutions that suit them. And we design new models and applications that can take into account social nuances and different perspectives.</span>",
			"project": [
				{
					"project_url": "https://squadbox.org/",
					"project_name": "Squadbox",
					"@type": "item"
				},
				{
					"project_url": "http://murmur.csail.mit.edu/",
					"project_name": "Murmur",
					"@type": "item"
				}
			],
			"author2": [
				{
					"author_name2": "Shagun Jhaver"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Quan Ze (Jim) Chen"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Ruotong Wang"
				}
			]
		},
		{
			"title": "Data Collaboration and Knowledge Management",
			"description": "<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Organizing and analyzing data and information is increasingly done by (sometimes large) groups of people working together with different skill sets and domain expertise. We design new software tools and human-AI hybrid systems to help groups collectively explore, organize, and comprehend data and information.</span>",
			"project": [
				{
					"@type": "item",
					"project_name": "DS Collaboration",
					"project_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.06684.pdf"
				},
				{
					"project_url": "http://tildachat.com/",
					"project_name": "Tilda",
					"@type": "item"
				}
			],
			"author2": [
				{
					"author_name2": "Ge Zhang"
				}
			]
		},
		{
			"title": "Platform Design for Healthy Information Ecosystems",
			"description": "<!--?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?--> <span style=\"/* font-family: -webkit-standard; */font-size: 14px;\">Online platforms find themselves host to harassing behavior, polarizing discourse, and disinformation campaigns. How can we reimagine social media to push back against bad actors, promote pro-social interaction and credible information, and respect privacy? How do we guard against negative emergent properties?</span>",
			"project": [
				{
					"@type": "item",
					"project_url": "https://credibilitycoalition.org/",
					"project_name": "Credibility Coalition"
				},
				{
					"project_url": "http://eyebrowse.csail.mit.edu/",
					"project_name": "Eyebrowse",
					"@type": "item"
				}
			],
			"author2": [
				{
					"author_name2": "Shagun Jhaver"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Wenjia Hu"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Emelia May Hughes"
				}
			]
		}
	]
}