Research and Projects

This project highlights the call for awareness and responsibility, addressing the risk of transferring intrinsic biases of algorithmic translations into the design of products, services, and systems.

This project explores the link between capitalist systems and climate change, examining countries’ vulnerability to extreme weather events and emissions per capita.

The short-term goal of this project is to develop an in-depth understanding of how teenagers learn about sex and to identify potential gaps in information channels.

This project aims to understand how groups can remain ignorant whether through error or omission and for how long, even when group members act rationally and assess evidence that itself points to the truth.

This project imagines user-centered design processes where the latent needs of users are automatically elicited and then translated into new concept recommendations for designers.

Banca Intesa Processes is an exploratory business analytics application that allows the organization to explore and audit risk management data to understand and manage the complexity.

This workshop focuses on music-based, participatory design research approaches for engaging children in literacy and STEAM learning.

This project is a data visualization collaboration with the MIT Senseable City Lab, visualizing GPS data from more than 40 million smartphones.

This project centers around a collaborative robot for industrial work environments that takes inspiration from fitness routines on gym machines for a physically more sustainable work modality.

This project is an investigation of how UI and UX elements can affect the consumption and spread of misinformation on social media platforms.

The project delves into the intricate dynamics of facilitation, seeking to provide designers with insight into how subtle variations in tone can profoundly influence group dynamics, decisions and satisfaction.

The Center for Design (CfD) is collaborating with the City of Boston to facilitate a participatory budgeting process grounded in equity.

Service design teams are composed of people from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. These workshops aims to provide participants with tools to raise awareness of cultural differences and similarities.

This curated collection is part of a broader research endeavor in which data, sonification and design converge to explore the potential of sound in complementing other modes of representation.

This project is a case study exploring a novel approach to medical equipment design.

Threads of Assumption is an exploration of gender-bias and artificial intelligence. We collect personal stories about gender-based harm and look for patterns and narratives within the data.

This research team is mapping the healthcare ecosystems of Boston and Milan, exploring the co-design and co-production processes that contain evidence of patient-driven innovation.

The Center for Design is curating a collection of resources that might enlighten us to think about design, design research, and design practice in general as collaborative practice.

This research seeks to complement existing theoretical studies by providing empirical insights into the utilization of metrics by practicing service designers.

What affordances, opportunities, and challenges emerge when interpreting data through the body using dance?

The Design for Emergency Data Platform collects data about people’s experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic.

COVIC is a broad, multi-lingual, multi-cultural view of visualizations created during the global COVID-19 pandemic.

This research group is seeking to understand attitudes in young adults (18-24) regarding climate change and how it affects mental health and health behaviors.