UDD launched Discolab for collaborative understanding of complex texts
Universidad del Desarrollo announced the launch of Discolab, a collaborative reading, annotation, and deliberation platform created by Cristian Candia-Castro.
The launch positioned Discolab as a tool for improving the understanding of complex texts through comments, votes, rankings, consensus signals, and controversy detection.
Cristian Candia
Associate Professor, Data Science Institute, School of Engineering, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. Head of CRiSS-LAB.
Cristian Candia studies how societies transform information into collective relevance through attention, memory, preferences, and coordination. His work combines computational social science, network science, AI, and large-scale behavioral data to understand how groups, institutions, and societies decide what matters.