Scott Counts
SENIOR RESEARCHER
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I am a Researcher in the VIBE Group and also a member of the Social Computing Group. My research focuses on building social software based on social psychological principles in order to facilitate online social interactions and networks.
Current projects focus on social-cognitive aspects of social software, mobile social software, and enabling social collection and analysis of data.
I received my Ph.D. in Social and Personality Psychology from the University of Washington in 2002.
There I studied personality and the unique and stable patterns of emotion and behavior each person shows in response to social situations.
For additional publications, please see my personal page.
Publications
- Munmun De Choudhury, Scott Counts, Eric Horvitz, and Michael Gamon, Predicting Depression via Social Media., AAAI, July 2013
- Andres Monroy-Hernandez, danah boyd, Emre Kıcıman, Munmun De Choudhury, and Scott Counts, The New War Correspondents: The Rise of Civic Media Curation in Urban Warfare, in The 16th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), ACM, 23 February 2013
- Jiang Yang, Scott Counts, Meredith Ringel Morris, and Aaron Hoff, Microblog Credibility Perceptions: Comparing the United States and China, in Proceedings of CSCW 2013, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, February 2013
- Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Emre Kıcıman, danah boyd, and Scott Counts, Tweeting the Drug War: Empowerment, Intimidation, and Regulation in Social Media, in HCIC, , 25 June 2012
- Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Emre Kıcıman, danah boyd, and Scott Counts, “Narcotweets”: Social Media in Wartime (poster paper), in The 6th Intl. Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), American Association for Artificial Intelligence , 4 June 2012
- Munmun De Choudhury, Scott Counts, and Michael Gamon, Not All Moods are Created Equal! Exploring Human Emotional States in Social Media., Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, June 2012
- Munmun De Choudhury, Michael Gamon, and Scott Counts, Happy, Nervous or Surprised? Classification of Human Affective States in Social Media, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, June 2012
- Meredith Ringel Morris, Scott Counts, Aaron Hoff, Asta Roseway, and Julia Schwarz, Tweeting is Believing? Understanding Microblog Credibility Perceptions, in Proceedings of CSCW 2012, ACM, February 2012
- Munmun de Choudhury, Scott Counts, and Czerwinski, Find Me the Right Content! Diversity-based Sampling of Social Media Content for Topic-centric Search. , Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media , July 2011
- Munmun de Choudhury, Scott Counts, and Mary Czerwinski, Identifying relevant social media content: leveraging information diversity and user cognition, HT '11, June 2011
- Tim Paek, Michael Gamon, Scott Counts, David Maxwell Chickering, and Aman Dhesi, Predicting the Importance of Newsfeed Posts and Social Network Friends, American Association for Artificial Intelligence , July 2010
- Kurt Luther, Scott Counts, Kristin B. Stecher, Aaron Hoff, and Paul Johns, Pathfinder: an online collaboration environment for citizen scientists, in CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2009
- Kristin Stecher and Scott Counts, Spontaneous inference of personality traits and effects on memory for online profiles, American Association for Artificial Intelligence , 2008
- kristin stecher and scott counts, Thin Slices of Online Profile Attributes, American Association for Artificial Intelligence , 2008
- David Fono and Scott Counts, Sandboxes: Supporting Social Play through Collaborative Multimedia Composition on Mobile Phones, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2006
- Scott Counts and Geraci John, Incorporating Physical Co-presence at Events into Digital Social Networking, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., June 2006
- Jonathan Grudin and Scott Counts, As Technophobia Disappears: Implications for Design, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2005
- Scott Counts and Eric Fellheimer, Supporting Social Presence through Lightweight Photo Sharing On and Off the Desktop, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2004
- Scott Counts, Shelly Farnham, and Lili Cheng, Two Methods for Auto-Organizing Personal Web History, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2003
- Scott Counts and Jonathan Grudin, Supporting Engagement in Asynchronous Education , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2003
- Andrew Fiore, Scott Counts, and Marc A. Smith, Observed Behavior and Perceived Value of Authors in Usenet Newsgroups: Bridging the Gap , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2002
- Michael F. Cohen, R. Alex Colburn, Steven M. Drucker, Anoop Gupta, and Scott LeeTiernan, Graphical Enhancements for Voice Only Conference Calls, no. MSR-TR-2001-95, October 2001
- Scott Counts and Jonathan Grudin, Fostering Engagement in Asynchronous Learning through Collaborative Multimedia Annotation , IOS Press, July 2001
- Scott LeeTiernan, Edward Cutrell, Mary Czerwinski, and Hunter Hoffman, Effective Notification Systems Depend On User Trust, IOS Press, July 2001