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Projects
Sophie’s Super Hand
Reposted from Berkeley Engineering | 11/1/15 | By Daniel McGlynn Sophie is eight years old. Her favorite animal is the cheetah. Her career aspirations, in […]
Connected Communities Initiative Conferences and Workshops
The Connected Communities Initiative hosts workshops and symposia on a variety of topics ranging from social and ethical issues surrounding privacy and surveillance to the […]
Stories of Solidarity: Building connections among precarious workers
Stories of Solidarity is a digital labor organizing tool built to connect the experiences of low-income, precarious workers and build connections and solidarity among them. […]
Pacific Research Platform: UC San Diego, UC Berkeley lead creation of West Coast big data freeway system
For the last three years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a series of competitive grants to over 100 U.S. universities to aggressively upgrade […]
The Collaborative Assessment and Feedback Engine (CAFE) (2009-2018)*
Ken Goldberg and Brandie Nonnecke and Sanjay Krishnan and Camille Crittenden The CAFE platform was awarded the 2017-2018 Chancellor’s Award for Research in the Public […]
Human-centered Automation
A key focus of this initiative is human-centered automation, that is, designing automation that works well with people. We are developing a principled design framework […]
Cloud Robotics and Automation
Rather than viewing robots and automated machines as isolated systems with limited computation and memory, “Cloud Robotics and Automation” provides access to 1) Big Data: […]
Safe Exploration: Modeling Uncertainty in Human-Robot Interaction
To address the safety issues in human robot interactions (HRI), a safe set algorithm (SSA) was developed previously. However, during HRI, the uncertainty levels are […]
Deep Learning for Robotics
In this project we are developing deep learning methods for robotics. Deep learning is a branch of machine learning that is concerned with learning structure, […]
Students Design Mobile Apps With Social Flavor
Reposted from the UC Newsroom | by Alec Rosenberg | June 5, 2015 Photo above: Members of Snapily explain their app at the CITRIS Mobile […]
Robot-Assisted Precision Irrigation and Diagnostics
In times of unprecedented drought, great benefit could be obtained with centimeter-scale data on moisture levels and the ability to respond with equally precise and […]
Improving Access to Public Resources for Everyone
Dear Friends of CITRIS: The protest that sparked the Free Speech Movement fifty years ago initially focused on the rights of all students to assemble […]
Bilingual “California Report Card” Launches on National Voter Registration Day
Berkeley, CA (September 23, 2014) — On National Voter Registration Day, a new version of the California Report Card (http://californiareportcard.org/ ) is being launched to […]
Digital Fingerprints: Using Electronic Evidence to Advance Prosecutions at the International Criminal Court
The first Salzburg Workshop on Improving War Crimes Investigations, a convening focused on the use of digital evidence to prosecute atrocity crimes (genocide, crimes against humanity, […]
Smart Urban Crowd-Sensing
The recent technology trends of crowd-sourcing/sensing and location-based social networking have reignited citizen engagement, opening new perspectives for cost-effective ways of making local communities and […]
Non-invasive Multi-sensor to Predict Worsening Heart Failure
This project will study a low-cost bio-sensing system to non-invasively predict heart failure in a home setting. The device will be able to measure physiological […]
Participatory Mapping to Inform Agricultural Decision Making
This research aims to develop and pilot mapping tools that enable to small farmers to influence local agricultural policy. Using crowd-sourced data, mapping and visualization […]
Griddle
Climate change, scarcity of resources and other environmental concerns are driving a worldwide migration to cleaner, more sustainable sources of electricity such as wind and solar power. Unfortunately, these […]
Berkeley Barter
Berkeley Barter is an app to help residents of the city exchange, trade, and swap their stuff. It was designed by undergraduate students at the […]
Picture Yourself in College
Building on popular applications in digital photography, photo editing, and image sharing, the “selfie” has proliferated as a social practice and was named 2013 “word […]
Vote Your Mind
Thousands of US veterans have suffered traumatic brain injuries from roadside bombs and mortar explosions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some of these injuries are bloody—the […]
AirQuest
AirQuest is a location-based video game about air-quality management and asthma, initially based in the California Central Valley but extensible to other locations and regions. […]
Bedside to the Cloud and Back
Real-Time Data Analytics from Critical Care Instrumentation This project will develop a system-based workflow to securely acquire wireless data from mechanical ventilators in critical care […]