Project

DriftCatcher

Email is a tool that people use daily, making an implicit statement about their relationships with other people, and providing an opportunity for a computer to learn about their social network. While people have come to depend on email in their daily lives, the tool has hardly changed to help people deal with an overwhelming amount of information. Many of the social cues that allow people to function naturally within their social network are not inherent or obvious in Computer Mediated Communication (CMC). This work uses automatic social network analysis to bring these cues to CMC and foster the user�s coherent understanding of the people and resources of their communication network. The goal of this work is to demonstrate that Artificial Intelligence can help people in the realm of social decisions. Using AI of Social Networks, this work improves human-human communication, recognizing the social characteristics of human relations in order to achieve a more natural online communication interface.