User Experience Research
by Shaomei Wu
Core Data Science
Blog
We conducted a study with Cornell University to better understand the blind community's experience with visual content. This study highlighted the challenges blind people face and the strategies they...
by Violeta Voykinska, Shiri Azenkot, Shaomei Wu, Gilly Leshed
Human Computer Interaction and UX
Publications
In this paper, we explore blind people’s motivations, challenges, interactions, and experiences with visual content on Social Networking Services (SNSs). We present findings from an interview study...
During times of crisis, we see people coming together on Facebook to support one another. When tragedy struck Nepal, people turned to Facebook to find out if their loved ones were safe and to donate...
Facebook does research to improve its services. Many parts of the world experience Facebook through smartphones but as we continue to grow globally, increasingly we are also seeing a rise in low-end...
Highlights
The Relationship between Facebook Use and Well-Being Depends on Communication Type and Tie Strength
by Moira Burke, Robert KrautJuly 27, 2016
Publication
Legacy Contact: Designing and implementing stewardship at Facebook
by Jed R. Brubaker, Vanessa Callison-BurchMay 7, 2016
Publication
Finexus: Tracking Fingertips Using Four Magnetometers
by Ke-Yu Chen, Shwetak Patel, Sean KellerMay 7, 2016
Publication
Facebook Researchers Focusing on the Future of Human Computer Interaction at CHI 2016
by Mike Massimi, Vanessa Callison-Burch, Alex Dow, Lada Adamic, Vasanth Rajendran, Margaret Gould Stewart, Sean KellerMay 6, 2016
Blog post
About User Experience Research
The User Experience Research team is a diverse and collaborative group of researchers who work directly with product teams to create compelling social experiences on Facebook. Our work ranges from formative to evaluative, from ethnography to usability, from survey measurement to experimental design and log data analysis. UX Researchers come from a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds but share one thing in common — a desire to deeply understand and improve the experiences of the 1.3 billion people around the world who use Facebook.
Publications
The Relationship between Facebook Use and Well-Being Depends on Communication Type and Tie Strength
Moira Burke, Robert Kraut
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC)
Jul 27, 2016
An extensive literature shows that social relationships influence psychological well-being, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We test...
Legacy Contact: Designing and implementing stewardship at Facebook
Jed R. Brubaker, Vanessa Callison-Burch
CHI 2016
May 7, 2016
In this paper we describe Legacy Contact, a new feature that better supports people coping with the death of of a loved one on Facebook while giving...
Finexus: Tracking Fingertips Using Four Magnetometers
Ke-Yu Chen, Shwetak Patel, Sean Keller
CHI 2016
May 7, 2016
We built a system to magnetically track the fingertips in order to bring hands into VR. It works by instrumenting electromagnets at the tips of the...
Blog
Facebook Researchers Focusing on the Future of Human Computer Interaction at CHI 2016
by Mike Massimi, Vanessa Callison-Burch, Alex Dow, Lada Adamic, Vasanth Rajendran, Margaret Gould Stewart, Sean KellerMay 6, 2016
How blind people interact with visual content on social networking sites
by Shaomei WuApr 4, 2016
Engineering for nostalgia: Building a personalized 'On This Day' experience
by Omid Aziz, Manohar PaluriMar 30, 2016
Visualizing Crisis Relief in Nepal
by Alex SchultzSep 28, 2015
Join Us
Do you want to help more than a billion people all over the world connect and share?
Code
Learn about our open source tools and technologies, our challenging scaling experiences, and more.