Behaviour modelling

Multidimensional tie strength and economic development

The strength of social relations has been shown to affect an individual’s access to opportunities. To date, however, the correspondence between tie strength and population’s economic prospects has not been quantified, largely because of the inability …

Predicting Meeting Success With Nuanced Emotions

While current meeting tools are able to capture key analytics (e.g., transcript and summarization), they do not often capture nuanced emotions (e.g., disappointment and feeling impressed). Given the high number of meetings that were held online …

GraphNLI: A Graph-based Natural Language Inference Model for Polarity Prediction in Online Debates

Online forums that allow participatory engagement between users have been transformative for public discussion of important issues. However, debates on such forums can sometimes escalate into full blown exchanges of hate or misinformation. An …

The Role of Different Types of Conversations for Meeting Success

While current meeting tools are able to capture key analytics from both text and voice (e.g., meeting summarization), they do not often capture important types of conversations (e.g., a heated discussion resulting in a conflict being resolved). We …

Retrofitting Meetings for Psychological Safety

Meetings are the fuel of organizations productivity. At times, however, they are perceived as wasteful vaccums that deplete employee morale and productivity. Current meeting tools, to a great extent, have simplified and augmented the ways meetings …

KAIROS: Talking Heads and Moving Bodies for Successful Meetings

Successful meetings create a safe environment for contribution; one that attendees feel engaged in and part of. Previous research has shown that meetings success depends not only on execution, but also on whether attendees feel psychologically safe. …

Ranking comment sorting policies in online debates

Online debates typically possess a large number of argumentative comments. Most readers who would like to see which comments are winning arguments often only read a part of the debate. Many platforms that host such debates allow for the comments to …

MeetCues: Supporting Online Meetings Experience

The remote work ecosystem is transforming patterns of communication between teams and individuals located at distance. Particularly, the absence of certain subtle cues in current communication tools may hinder an online's meeting outcome by …

Humane Visual AI: Telling the Stories Behind a Medical Condition

A biological understanding is key for managing medical conditions, yet psychological and social aspects matter too. The main problem is that these two aspects are hard to quantify and inherently difficult to communicate. To quantify psychological …

Analysing Meso and Macro conversation structures in an online suicide support forum

Platforms like Reddit and Twitter offer internet users an opportunity to talk about diverse issues, including those pertaining to physical and mental health. Some of these forums also function as a safe space for severely distressed mental health …