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Welcome to the C3 Lab!
Our research explores the design of human-centered technologies to bridge Cultural barriers, improve Collaboration, and build Community. On a high-level, our lab aims to tackle timely, high-impact, human-oriented societal challenges. Our goal is to design socially-conscious, technological solutions that can benefit social good. Check out our C3 Team and current research projects here!
Diversity and inclusion is a key focus of this work. The solutions we develop aim to embrace and leverage the many benefits of diversity, rather than being hindered by its challenges. Our research is highly interdisciplinary, and we regularly collaborate with psychologists, social workers, and artists. Our recent work explores the following application areas:
- Designing health technologies to promote mind-body awareness (In collaboration with Rebecca Rowley, Licensed Art Psychotherapist, Calgary)
- Designing work and well-being technologies for Highly Sensitive People (people with “Sensory Processing Sensitivity”). (In collaboration with Tara Barnas and Eva Verity, Social Innovation, University of Calgary).
- Re-thinking social media design to foster meaningful connection (In collaboration with Prof. Ryan L. Boyd, Vanderbilt University, USA and Prof. Andrea Horn, University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Collaboration systems to mitigate cultural and language barriers in distributed work teams (In collaboration with Prof. Naomi Yamashita (Kyoto University, Japan) and Dr. Jack Jamieson, NTT Research Labs, Japan)
- Meaningful data tools for emergency shelter staff (In collaboration with Prof. Geoffrey Messier (Engineering) and Prof. Gina Dimitropoulos (Social Work), University of Calgary)
- Interactive technologies to prompt spontaneous joyful encounters between strangers in public spaces (In collaboration with Prof. Katayoon Etemad, Dept. of Anthropology and Archeology, University of Calgary)
- Empowering the public with open data and visualizations (In collaboration with Prof. Sheelagh Carpendale, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University)
This work is situated within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Positive Computing, Social Computing, and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). We draw heavily from psychology, cultural anthropology, media art and urban studies to design creative technological interventions and nuanced studies of the interplay between humans and machines.
c3 lab – Prospective students
Welcome students! Great that you’re here.
I’m seeking technically-skilled, highly creative students with keen intrinsic interest in issues of diversity, equity and inclusion and a passion for developing socially-conscious technologies. In particular, I welcome applications from students with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds to contribute their unique expertise to these challenging research domains.
Thank you for your interest — unfortunately, my lab is currently full and I am not taking on any new students for the time being. The contact form is currently closed until I have open spots in my lab again. Thanks you for your interest!
The C3 Lab Application Form is currently closed — What to expect when the form is open: I will ask you to read a couple of research papers, and undertake a “design challenge” where I will give you an open-ended research challenge, and ask you to create some low-fidelity prototypes (hand drawn sketches) to convey your ideas and write a short description of what you did and why.
For more details for prospective students, go here. To check out other exciting Human-Computer Interaction research going on at the Interactions Lab (iLab), go here.
To submit an official application through the University of Calgary, go here.
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