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Research Labs & Initiatives

Creativity meets technology in CAMD’s multi-disciplinary labs and initiatives. Artists, designers, and innovators collaborate to explore tomorrow’s immersive experiences, data-driven insights, and human-centered solutions today. Join us as we reimagine the future of art, media, and design through research that transforms ideas into impact.

Co-Lab for Data Impact

A new CAMD initiative dedicated to research and scholarship in data storytelling and visualization, information design, new media technology, and media innovation.

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Sonification Lab

The Sonification Lab is nested within the Music Technology program in the Department of Music at Northeastern University. Unlike traditional data visualization techniques, data sonification provides an auditory representation of data, offering a unique and complementary perspective on the information being studied.

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AI-Media Strategies (AIMS) Lab

The AI-Media Strategies Lab – AIMS Lab – focuses on the use of AI technologies in media industries, providing evidence-based recommendations to organizations, and producing research leveraging methods such as surveys, focus groups, experiments, and data analysis.

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Public Engagement with Science Hub (PESH)

The Public Engagement with Science Hub (PESH) at Northeastern University aims to build a community of scholars and practitioners from diverse academic fields who share a passion for strengthening engagement pathways between scientists and members of the public.

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Storybench

Explore a wealth of information about new techniques and best practices in data storytelling and digital journalism. Maintained by Northeastern’s School of Journalism.

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Media for Empowerment and Impact Lab

We blend mass media, strategic communication, serious games, and content-co-creation with public health, community-building, social engagement to drive social change. Our focus is on understanding and maximizing media impact to create effective communication strategies that foster healthier communities.

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Across our interdisciplinary initiatives, we examine human-centered AI strategies for trust and transparency, develop media platforms that empower communities, innovate health technologies that elevate wellbeing, and shape media and communications to engage and inspire audiences.

Northeastern University Visualization Consortium (NUVis)

NUVis is an interdisciplinary cross-university initiative between CAMD and the College of Computer and Information Science.

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Scout

Scout is Northeastern’s student-led design studio. It aims to foster the design community at Northeastern through client work, speaker series, and interactive workshops.

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The Scope

The Scope explores the factors and issues that drive, explain, and contextualize urban inequalities. It is a product of the School of Journalism’s Media Innovation Program.

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Science Media Lab

A collaboration between Northeastern’s School of Journalism and the Provost of Research is a new initiative to raise awareness about science scholarship at Northeastern.

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Media Studios

CAMD is home to several media lab spaces including the Experiential Technologies Lab, Immersive Media Labs, Physical Computing Lab, and the Interdisciplinary Research Lab.

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Research at CAMD

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