Social Computing Group
Detecting, analyzing, and interpreting human and social behavior.
The Social Computing Group is established both at Idiap Research Institute in Martigny and at the College of Humanities at EPFL. Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez heads this research group with his team located in both institutions.
Research carried out in the Social Computing Group
The integration of theories and models from informatics and the social sciences makes it possible to detect, analyze, and interpret human and social behavior.
The work in the Social Computing Group integrates theories and models from ubiquitous computing, social media, machine learning, and social sciences, to sense, analyze, and interpret human and social behavior in everyday life, and to create devices and systems that support interaction and communication. Current research includes methods for urban computing from phone and mobile social network data, behavioral analysis of social video, ubiquitous sensing of face-to-face interaction, and crowdsourcing.
