We are a group of social science / technology researchers in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University. Collectively, we conduct research at the intersection of behavior, information, and technology. We are located in the Communication Arts and Sciences building in room 251.

We have a number of active projects going on right now. These projects are supported by almost $1.5 million in external grants from the US National Science Foundation, Google, and Facebook.

     News

• New Rick Wash’s paper “The Value of Completing Crowdfunding Projects” was accepted at ICWSM ‘13
• New BITLab Faculty and students have 2 papers at CSCW, 5 papers at CHI, and one paper at ICA!
• New We are hiring full-time summer undergraduate research assistants! Apply now
• New Susan Wyche received a grant from Google of approximately $40,000 and a $40,000 gift from Facebook to study social media use in Kenya
• BITLab Faculty are looking for PhD students
• Emilee Rader received a grant of approximately $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to study the “Effects of automated information selection and presentation in online information systems”
• The REU student summer projects were presented at SURF and written about in the Dean’s blog.
• Kami Vaniea will be joining the lab as a PostDoc! Welcome Kami
• Emilee Rader and Rick Wash received almost $500,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation to pursue their project Influencing Mental Models of Security.
• Rick Wash received a grant of $400,000 from the National Science Foundation to study crowdfunding systems.