mediaX Thought Leader Awarded 2019 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science
Margaret Levi, director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences for “having laid the foundations of our understanding of why citizens accept state coercion, by combining theoretical acumen and historical knowledge.”
mediaX Hosts The President of Costa Rica
On March 12, 2019 mediaX welcomed President Carlos Alvarado and his delegation from Costa Rica to discuss the use of VR and XR in their country. the visit included a tour and demo inside the VHIL Lab on campus.
Registration is Open for #mediaX2019 Conference
Join us April 25th from 9a-4p as we address the topic of Digital Communities and the Augmented Human Experience and look at questions like What is “community” and How will information technologies enhance the human experience of community?
#mediaX2019 Conference: Digital Communities and the Augmented Human Experience
April 25, 2019
The #mediaX2019 Conference: Digital Communities and the Augmented Human Experience will bring together Stanford scholars and industry partners to dive into what builds community in 2019 and beyond.
Where are the Breakdowns? Surveying Unsuccessful and Failed Uses of Data
From The Theme POTENTIAL, PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY WHAT IF What if we could better understand best practices for data analytics? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to illuminate the processes and practices through which individuals from diverse professional backgrounds enact data analytics. Specifically, we conducted an organizational field study to investigate how […]
Designing Technologies that Mediate Human Social Interaction: Strategies for Effective Cooperation and Collaboration
From The Theme KNOWLEDGE WORKER PRODUCTIVITY WHAT IF What if we could develop a theory of “social affordances” (properties of technologies that shape online social interaction, personal judgment, and social decision-making) to better understand and even predict the effects of media design choices on behavior? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to […]
EteRNA: Accelerating Knowledge Creation for RNA Bioengineering through Internet-Scale Gaming
From The Theme KNOWLEDGE WORKER PRODUCTIVITY WHAT IF What if technical contributions from citizen scientists could be crowd sourced to accelerate scientific research? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO With the EteRNA project, we aimed to rapidly advance RNA (ribonucleic acid) bioengineering, and overcome the limits of the traditional “trial and error” design cycle within […]
AI for Culturally Relevant Interactions Presentations are Available
Relive the talks featuring academia and industry thought leaders in the emerging arena of cultural and societal interactions with big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Gestures, Speech and Vision—Towards a Multi-Modal Augmented Reality Human-Robot Interface
From The Theme HUMAN MACHINE INTERACTION AND SENSING WHAT IF? What if humans could communicate with robots through visual and speech interfaces that would produce more natural interactions? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to develop tools that would improve human-robot communication, collaboration and team-work. Specifically, we aimed to augment the STanford […]