We're the comp.social lab at Georgia Tech.
We build and study social media.
 
courteous.ly
project

If only other people could know how deep your email inbox is right now. courteous.ly is an app for Gmail that lets people know whether your email load is low, normal or high—relative to historical patterns.
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we meddle
project

Making friend lists is tedious and time-consuming. You have to make the close friends list, the family list, the tech list, etc. We Meddle uses a computational model to make lists easy and automatic.
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understanding deja reviewers
cscw 2010 paper

People who review products on the web invest considerable time and energy in them. So why would someone write a review that restates earlier reviews? We look to answer this question.
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phrases that signal hierarchy
cscw 2012 paper

Hierarchy fundamentally shapes how we act at work. In this paper, we explore the relationship between the words people write in workplace email and the rank of the email's recipient.
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The comp.social lab is led by Eric Gilbert, an Assistant Professor in Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing. comp.social focuses on the design and analysis of social media. We like mixed methods, puppies and new students.