About

The Scientific Collaboration and Creativity Lab (SCCL) at the University of Washington includes researchers focusing on the following research areas within the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI):

  • Visual analytics
  • Games for good (collaborative educational games)
  • Scientific collaborations
  • Collaborative creativity
  • Emotion in text communication; applied machine learning and natural language processing
  • Usability and sustainability

Lab members build collaborative visual analytics software and study sociotechnical systems. The lab is headed by Dr. Cecilia R. Aragon, Associate Professor in the department of Human Centered Design and Engineering. In 2009, Aragon won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for her work.

Current Research

Collaborative eduational games

A collaborative game that integrates bioinformatics and cyberinfrastructure concepts.

Emotion in distributed collaboration

Text-based expression of emotion and affect in cooperative work.

Visual text analytics for social media

Visual analytics tools and techniques for rich understanding of social media data sets.

NLP and ML for scaling qualitative analysis

Applying qualitative coding to massive text data sets through automated techniques.