Microsoft Research: Scott Counts
Microsoft Research: Lili Cheng
Primary Advisor: Jason Plaks
Supervising Advisor: Yuichi Shoda
Graduate Student Representative: David McDonald
Undergraduate advisor: Mikki Hebl
Kodu
Currently studying the use of Kodu, "a new visual programming language made specifically for creating games" in the lab and in the classroom. Conducted usability studies and deployed longitudinal surveys in elementary schools.
This winter I will run an after school program using Kodu at a local elementary school.
Bing Twitter
Usability testing for social search.
Profiles Research
Applying methods and phenomena from
social and cognitive psychology to understand the way users process and
interpret online profiles in social networks. Found that people need relatively few attributes
to make meaningful inferences about profiles and that profiles that contain coherent traits are
remembered better than those that do not.
Social Networks in the Enterprise
Studying the usage and spread of a Microsoft internal
social network. Analyzing instrumentation logs and conducting surveys to make recommendations for other
social networks in the enterprise.
Social Views of Email and Salsa
Evidence from user studies, instrumentation logs and surveys demonstrate that
demonstrates that using 'Social Views of Email' helps users prioritize thier email. This project and the 'Salsa' project both use social content
to enhance email communications.
DataDepot
Allowing people to collaborate thorugh data analysis. It is possible to input your own data in DataDepot or discuss one of thousands of seeded datasets.
Our research in this space demonstrates that crowdsourcing can be used to make sense of rich datasets. Also we show that lay scientists, like professional
scientists can work together to contribute meaningful analyses.
Spontaneous Inferences Impressions about personality often form automatically. This research demonstrates that perceivers attend to, and remember information about actors’ goals and traits in a variety of situations.
Hiring Decisions in the Newsroom
How do people use racial
cues to make hiring decisions? These studies looked at real world
environments and assessed people's hiring preferences in the newsroom
and the effects of affirmative action.
Contact me at: stech@u.washington.edu