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The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) covers the gamut of human-computer interaction research in topic areas such as community health, civic engagement, ads, social good, privacy, and AR/VR, among others. Although CHI has been canceled this year, we decided to reflect on the value that the conference brings to academic and industry researchers in the area of human-computer interaction. To do this, we sat down with Haley MacLeod (UX Research) and Raz Schwartz (AR/VR) to learn more about them and explore how they’ve been involved in CHI over the years, starting with ..read more

Facebook researchers Moira Burke, Justin Cheng, and Bethany de Gant received an honorable mention at the 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems for their paper, “Social comparison and Facebook: Feedback, positivity, and opportunities for comparison.” Burke and Cheng are Research Scientists within Core Data Science, and de Gant is a UX Researcher focused on well-being. Social comparison is a foundational human process that we all can relate to. Burke, Cheng, and de Gant examined the question of whether social media is making it worse. They conducted a large, rigorous inte ..read more

Roee Eilat and Udi Weinsberg are Research Scientist Managers within Facebook Core Data Science (CDS), a research and development team working on improving Facebook’s processes, infrastructure, and products that enable more than 1.5 billion people to communicate with one another every day. This work was done during Adam N. Breuer’s internship with CDS. What we did Online social networks are frequently targeted by malicious actors who create fake accounts for the purpose of carrying out abuse. Broadly, abuse is conducted in three phases. First, malicious actors create accounts. Then, these accou ..read more

Justin Cheng is a Research Scientist within Facebook Core Data Science (CDS), a research and development team working on improving Facebook’s processes, infrastructure, and products that enable more than 1.5 billion people to communicate with one another every day. This work was done in collaboration with Jonathan Chang, a PhD student at Cornell University, and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, an Assistant Professor at Cornell University. What we did Conversations, whether online or offline, involve two perspectives: a speaker’s intention (that is, what the speaker wanted to convey) and other ..read more

The ACM Special Interest Group on Economics and Computation (SIGecom), with financial support from Facebook, is announcing a new Global Challenges in Economics and Computation request for proposals (RFP). The RFP will provide $150K in funding to aspiring researchers from low- and middle-income countries to apply research in economics and computation (EconCS) to help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In addition to being awarded funding, select winners may have the chance to present their projects at a special session at the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, J ..read more

At Facebook, research permeates everything we do, from improving our products to using AI to help keep people safe on our platform. In addition to serving the people who use our apps and services to build community, our research also informs how big and small businesses can effectively run ads on our platforms. These marketing insights can be found on Facebook IQ, a resource designed to help marketers and agencies discover actionable insights on consumer behavior, marketing, and measurement. To learn more about the research behind these marketing insights, we sat down with Lara Andrews, Resear ..read more

As we all continue to monitor the rapidly evolving situation surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak, we want to communicate how Facebook’s research investments and academic relations may be affected. We empathize with the research community in this unprecedented circumstance, and we understand universities may experience some challenges regarding support for grant programs now and in the coming months. To help to reduce the spread of COVID-19, we have canceled all in-person research events through the end of June. To accommodate these changes, we are planning new ways to foster our online community ..read more

In August 2019, we introduced Verdant Place — a living lab for sustainable development through connectivity. We also launched a request for information to identify technologies, market solutions, and ecosystem partners focused on meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) using information and communications technologies (ICT). As part of Facebook’s investment in research, we plan to invite Verdant Place members to respond to an upcoming request for proposals (RFP) in this area. This RFP follows the success of our 2019 Verdant Place workshop, which took place at our headqu ..read more