The new research unit TESI – Technology, Society, Interactions – has been created to support the research at the intersection of human-computer interaction, social computing, network and computer applications, ethics, and their interactions with interdisciplinary areas of social relevance, such as education.
TESI builds on the research groups TIDE (Interactive and distributed technologies for Education), WSSC (Web Science and Social Computing) and the FubIntLab (Full-Body Interaction Lab). Collaboration between the members, towards the common goals, is already taking place in joint projects and publications, and the strengthen structure is expected to further contribute to developments of human-centered, smart, interactive, and trustworthy technologies that lead to social impacts considering fundamental rights and ethical principles. TESI will do so by considering key requirements in the development of technological systems that minimize the risks associated with the incorporation of data-driven solutions in technology-enhanced learning ecosystems, and exploring how similar challenges and techniques can also apply to other scenarios of social significance.
The Principal Investigators involved in this unit are:
In the next years the TESI aims at increasing the excellence, internationalization and transfer of its research. A specific goal is to increase transfer to the industry and the society, thanks to (a) the increased ambition and relevance of the targeted research, (b) reaching levels of development (robust and in terms of usability) suitable of the research-derived tools for exploitation (e.g. we aim to extend the development of ILDE -currently being transferred via several contracts-, or advancing our AR Magic Lanterns devices, (c) organizing dissemination events involving the stakeholders and participating in dissemination and policy making initiatives.