research_areas.json

{
	"area": [
		{
			"title": "New Mediums for Discourse",
			"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 exchange. 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": "Simran Malhi"
				}
			],
			"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 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"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Jenny Fan"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Peipei Nie"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Galen Weld"
				}
			]
		},
		{
			"title": "End User Empowerment and Localization",
			"description": "<span style=\"/* font-family: -webkit-standard; */font-size: 14px;\">Many applications and 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 applications and models 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"
				},
				{
					"project_url": "https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~cqz/pubs/goldilocks_preprint.pdf",
					"project_name": "Goldilocks",
					"@type": "item"
				}
			],
			"author2": [
				{
					"author_name2": "Shagun Jhaver"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Quan Ze (Jim) Chen"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Ruotong Wang"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Adithi Raghavan"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Alice Zhang"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Andre Ye"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Kevin Feng"
				}
			]
		},
		{
			"title": "Collaboration and Knowledge Management",
			"description": "<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Production and knowledge management 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 achieve goals and collectively organize 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"
				},
				{
					"project_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11845",
					"project_name": "UX Collaboration",
					"@type": "item"
				}
			],
			"author2": [
				{
					"author_name2": "Ruotong Wang"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Kevin Feng"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Ge Zhang"
				}
			]
		},
		{
			"title": "Pro-Social Platform Design",
			"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"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Renee Wang"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Ryan Li"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Alice Zhang"
				},
				{
					"author_name2": "Peipei Nie"
				}
			]
		},
		{
			"title": "Public Interest Technology",
			"description": "<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Technology presents exciting opportunities but also many challenges for strengthening public institutions and civil society. How can technology help with broadening participation in civic activity, connecting people at the local level with support, and getting broad access to public resources and information?</span>",
			"project": [
				{
					"@type": "item",
					"project_url": "https://social.cs.washington.edu/pub_details.html?id=communityclick",
					"project_name": "CommunityClick"
				}
			],
			"author2": [
				{
					"author_name2": "Anson Huang"
				}
			]
		}
	]
}