SCUBA: THE SOCIAL COMPUTING LABORATORY
The Social Computing Laboratory (SCUBA) aims to make the internet a safer and more welcoming place by developing new scientific methods and computational tools. Our work broadly intersects with social computing, data science, human-centered AI, and natural language processing.
SCUBA's current research is related to combatting online antisocial behavior, human-AI collaborations to promote internet safety, and facilitating healthy online interactions.
SCUBA is officially a part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
SCUBA's current research is related to combatting online antisocial behavior, human-AI collaborations to promote internet safety, and facilitating healthy online interactions.
SCUBA is officially a part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ONGOING PROJECTS
- Real-time deployments of new human-AI collaboration tools for community moderators (e.g., Crossmod, ConvEx)
- Design friction as a moderation intervention: Causal effects of "quarantining" on Reddit
- Measuring and promoting healthy online behavior (e.g., prosocial outcomes in online interactions)
- Understanding and designing for audio-based (and other non-textual) social platforms
- Resilience to influxes of bad actors and bad behaviors within online communities
- Gray areas in online governance: Mismatches in stakeholder expectations
For a full list of our research papers, check out our publications.
PEOPLE
Professor: Eshwar Chandrasekharan
PhD:
Charlotte Lambert, Jackie Chan, Fred Choi, Tanvi Bajpai
Undergraduate:
Drshika Asher, Ananya Rajagopal, Sowmya Pratipati, Anwesa Goswami, Clark Lu, Jacqueline Chen; [UM: Aditya Shylesh, Robert Kang, Victor Li]
External collaborators:
Shagun Jhaver (postdoc@UW -> Assistant Professor@Rutgers University),
Stevie Chancellor (postdoc@Northwestern -> Assistant Professor@University of Minnesota)
PhD:
Charlotte Lambert, Jackie Chan, Fred Choi, Tanvi Bajpai
Undergraduate:
Drshika Asher, Ananya Rajagopal, Sowmya Pratipati, Anwesa Goswami, Clark Lu, Jacqueline Chen; [UM: Aditya Shylesh, Robert Kang, Victor Li]
External collaborators:
Shagun Jhaver (postdoc@UW -> Assistant Professor@Rutgers University),
Stevie Chancellor (postdoc@Northwestern -> Assistant Professor@University of Minnesota)