Social and Collaborative Computing

Catalog description

This course provides an introduction to how systems support social interaction and collaboration, and how social behaviors are shaped by technologies. The course is interdisciplinary, drawing from the fields of computer science, information systems, psychology, cognitive science, and sociology. It covers a variety of social and collaborative computing environments and platforms such as collaboration tools, crowdwork platforms, social media, and various online communities. Students will have a chance to get experience with social data analyses and focus on design and evaluation of a social computing system as their final project for the course.