The Role of the Humanities in the Design of Human-Machine Relationships

The humanities provide useful frameworks for understanding cultural production and the human experience, in all its complexity and uncertainty. As a result, humanities theories and methods have an important role to play in our decisions about how to integrate machines into our lives and how machines are designed. We will look at three projects that bring humanities theories and methods to the design of digital tools and socio-technological systems.

Speaker: Catherine Nicole Coleman, Stanford University

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