The WSSC group as of July 2023
The Social and Responsible Computing research group as of July 2023.

Algorithmic Fairness and Transparency:

  • Detecting Algorithmic Bias
  • Algorithmic Fairness / Mitigating Algorithmic Bias
  • Algorithmic Transparency
  • Machine Ethics
  • Human oversight and human-in-the-loop
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence
  • Human-AI Interaction and Alignment

Applied Web Science and Social Computing:

  • Impacts and applications in traditional/mainstream media, governments, non-governmental organizations and business, and in sectors such as health care, science, and education.
  • Impacts on employment, labor, legislation, politics, governance, democracy and economics; changes in homes, workplaces, schools, and the city.

Data governance:

  • Data Intermediation mechanisms
  • Privacy-preserving data-mining
  • Geospatial data modelling
  • Responsible data sharing practices
  • Software verification

Social Media:

  • Analysis of Social and Information Networks
  • Mining of Social Media and Crowd-Generated Data
  • Crowdsourcing and Scalable Collaboration
  • Recommender Systems
  • Crisis Informatics