Research areas
Apprentices may pursue any problem where people and technology meet. We bring the methods.
Problem areas
Students choose the problem. These are the kinds of areas apprentices work in, and they are not a closed list.
- Health and wellbeing
- Accessibility and disability
- Environment, climate and agriculture
- Education and learning
- Aging and caregiving
- Communities and civic life: housing, transportation, local services
- Work, the economy and underserved groups
Methods we bring
The methods are where Professor Wang’s expertise lies, and where mentorship can be held to a real standard.
- Human-centered and humanity-centered design
- Physical prototyping
- Small-batch manufacturing
- Sensing and hardware
- Data science
- Machine learning and AI
- Human–computer interaction
- Field studies and evaluation with real users
- Invention and patenting
- Building an organization
Choosing a question
Students develop their own question, guided toward work that is both grounded in the world and meaningful to them.
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