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Projects
Public Health Assisting Smart Technologies (PHAST)
The project goal is to apply pervasive computing and sensor technology to personal monitoring that can lead to improved understanding of exposure to hazardous environments […]
Poetry and Big Data Sets
“A poem is worth a thousand images.” – Anonymous Information technology has created a deluge of data; the challenge is how to understand it, how […]
Opinion Space: Social Media for Collective Discovery
Social Media has tremendous potential for innovation and problem solving, but existing tools such as blogs, wikis, and comment lists can be quickly overwhelmed by […]
Proposition 30 Awareness Project
In Fall 2012, California’s Proposition 30 sought to balance the budget by imposing temporary taxes to benefit public education at all levels. In order to […]
Metavid
We have developed Metavid.org, a site that archives video footage of the U.S. Senate and House floor proceedings. Visitors can search for who said what […]
Peer-to-PCAST: Open Video for Open Government
The Obama Administration has outlined a set of principles and practices to support Open Government in which citizens can collaborate with the government to solve […]
AFRON
The African Robotics Network (AFRON) is a community of institutions, organizations and individuals engaged in robotics in Africa. Established in April 2012, AFRON seeks to […]
Digital Media & Democratic Politics
My research examines the intersection of documentary film and digital media in the politically charged environment of the United States over the last decade. Given […]
Democracy and Digital Inequality
The history of the Internet over the past decade has been defined by the explosion of social media that created seemingly unlimited ways for people […]
Visualizing Ambivalence in the Public Sphere
America’s hallmark institutions of public debate and decision-making display a surprising consistency in the ways that they record and represent ‘public opinion’: they are binary, […]
Election 2012
The Data and Democracy Initiative actively supports social media efforts to inform and engage citizens about issues that affect them. In Fall 2012, DDI provided […]
Bloom
DDI Faculty Director Ken Goldberg recently collaborated with Sanjay Krishnan, Fernanda Viégas, and Martin Wattenberg to create an Internet-based artwork. Envisioned as a tribute to […]
American Cybercultures: Principles of Internet Citizenship
Created by Associate Professor Greg Niemeyer at UC Berkeley This course educates students in the historical, political, and practical aspects of the Internet in order […]
Donation Dashboard
The Generosity of Crowds: New Website Matches Non-Profits to Donors “It’s more difficult to give money away intelligently than it is to earn it in […]
Vote Your Mind
A new project of the Data and Democracy Initiative will increase voter education, confidence and persistence for individuals with cognitive impairments. Traditional text-based voter guides […]
Learning Mode Conference and Hackathon
We can hardly deny that online education transforms many aspects of learning, knowledge, and validation. It also opens new opportunities for research. The Berkeley Center […]
CalDay Photo Hunt
CalDay Photo Hunt is a smart phone “token-type” game launched at CalDay 2011. Players receive a list of prompts (types) and must find and photograph […]
Motion Interfaces for Physical Therapy
Real-time motion capture and immersive 3D computer-generated environments are emerging as a powerful approach to numerous challenges, including health care challenges in clinical work and […]
Robotic & Virtual Assistive Agents
Information technology is changing our lives at a speed often beyond to our ability to adapt. Ubiquitous connectivity, portable computing, pervasive sensing, novel interfaces, massively […]
CellScope: Telemicroscopy for Disease Diagnosis
One of the most basic—yet powerful—tools in all of science and medicine is the microscope. The Fletcher Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, designed […]
Tele-immersion for Physicians
An example of cross-campus collaboration is Tele-Immersive Environments for Geographically Distributed Collaborations amongst Medical Professionals. The project goal is to develop successful collaborations between researchers […]
Technology-Based Innovation for Independent Living
The developed world is aging at a high rate as a result of the general “baby boom” following World War II, as well as advancements […]
Bionics Lab
The mission of the Bionics Lab is to develop science, technology, and human resources at the interface between robotics, biological systems, and medicine. The PI/Lab […]