UDD launched Discolab for collaborative understanding of complex texts

Cristian Candia
Last updated on Jun 2, 2026 1 min read
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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.

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Cristian Candia
Cristian Candia
Associate Professor and Head of CRiSS-LAB, School of Engineering and School of Government, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile.

My research interests include applied AI, computational social science, network science, collective intelligence, school coexistence, decision intelligence, and business analytics.