Positive Computing

Positive Computing

Positive Computing

Through signals from communication towers, people exchange ideas via digital transmission across different locations, accomplishing their work and building a digital community.

Cambridge Ethical Design Lab

Through signals from communication towers, people exchange ideas via digital transmission across different locations, accomplishing their work and building a digital community.

Cambridge Ethical Design Lab

Through signals from communication towers, people exchange ideas via digital transmission across different locations, accomplishing their work and building a digital community.

Cambridge Ethical Design Lab

Image credits: Title and Digital Wellbeing Oservatory images by Yutong Liu & Digit / BetterImagesOfAI.org / CCBY 4.0

The Cambridge Ethical Design Lab is part of the Institute for Technology and Humanity at the University of Cambridge. We do mixed methods participatory research that translates to policy and practice so we can improve how technologies are designed to better serve human wellbeing. This includes research on digital wellbeing, front-end ethics, community-driven design futures, and multi-dimensional digital health.

The Cambridge Ethical Design Lab is part of the Institute for Technology and Humanity at the University of Cambridge. We do mixed methods participatory research that translates to policy and practice so we can improve how technologies are designed to better serve human wellbeing. This includes research on digital wellbeing, front-end ethics, community-driven design futures, and multi-dimensional digital health.

Research

Research

Projects

Our researchers engage in a range of projects across health, wellbeing and technology.

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Digital Wellbeing Observatory

Digital Wellbeing Observatory

Understanding how people across the UK use GenAI in their personal lives and exploring their visions for desirable GenAI futures.

Understanding how people across the UK use GenAI in their personal lives and exploring their visions for desirable GenAI futures.

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Ethics at the Front-end

Ethics at the Front-end

Mapping the landscape of ethical issues that arise at the user-facing front-end of AI Systems from 'dark patterns' and addictive design to nudging and data visualisation.

Mapping the landscape of ethical issues that arise at the user-facing front-end of AI Systems from 'dark patterns' and addictive design to nudging and data visualisation.

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AI and Mental health

AI and Mental health

Investigating the use of AI in mental healthcare

Investigating the use of AI in mental healthcare

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Collaborative Projects

These projects are conducted in collaboration with the Imperial College Spoke of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.

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Community-led AI Health Futures

Community-led AI Health Futures

Engaging diverse communities in imagining healthcare futures with AI.

Engaging diverse communities in imagining healthcare futures with AI.

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CALMS

CALMS

CALMS - Culturally Appropriate Language Model Systems.

CALMS - Culturally Appropriate Language Model Systems.

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People

People

Lab Director

Lab Director

Dorian Peters
Assistant Professor of Ethical Design
Director of Education
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
Institute for Technology and Humanity
University of Cambridge
Website: dorian-peters.com

Dorian Peters
Assistant Professor of Ethical Design
Director of Education
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
Institute for Technology and Humanity
University of Cambridge
Website: dorian-peters.com

People

Team and Collaborators

The lab constitutes researchers, students and visitors and has collaborators within Cambridge and beyond.

Awa Babington-Ashaye
Visiting Fellow (University of Geneva)

Eleanor Drage
Assistant Research Professor

Tomasz Hollanek
Assistant Research Professor





Awa Babington-Ashaye
Visiting Fellow

Eleanor Drage
Assistant Research Professor

Tomasz Hollanek
Assistant Research Professor

Malak Sadek
Teaching Associate, CHIA

Asma Shora
Visiting Fellow

Aisha Sobey
Research Fellow

Collaborators outside Cambridge

Rafael Calvo
Professor, Imperial College London

Titiksha Vashist
Pranava Institute, Dehli


Netta Weinstein
Professor, University of Reading

Zheyuan Zhang
Researcher, Imperial College London

Youth Digital Cultures Lab
We collaborate with the team at the Pranava Institute as advisors on their exceptional program for young researchers.

NHS AI Ambassadors Network
We collaborate with Rebecca Verlander and NHS leaders of the 'Mental Health and AI' CoP within the NHS AI Ambassadors Network

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The Ethical Design Lab sits directly within the
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.
LCFI is a multidisciplinary research centre dedicated to
exploring the nature, ethics and impact of Artificial Intelligence.

The Ethical Design Lab sits directly within the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. LCFI is a multidisciplinary research centre dedicated to exploring the nature, ethics and impact of Artificial Intelligence.