Tools for Technologists
About Noēsis Lab
Technology builders, entrepreneurs, and investors have a powerful opportunity to design effective tools and technologies that prioritize human well-being while also achieving successful business outcomes. With these leaders, the Noēsis Lab builds product design principles, standards, and backs builders who are advancing human flourishing outcomes with the resources necessary to win the market. Together, these efforts can help us harness the promise of innovative technologies while preventing or lessening its most damaging effects.
The Noēsis Lab at Work
Talk on Chatbot Design Principles | MIT Media Lab
Presentation to MIT Media Lab on Product Design Principles
HumanConnections.AI - Prosocial Tech Design Event
The first HumanConnections.AI Salon, held in October 2024, brought together leaders from tech, academia, policy and philanthropy to chart a path for AI that nurtures mental well-being and healthy relationships.
Interview with Andrew McStay, Author of Automated Empathy.
Humanconnections.AI interview with Andrew McStay, Author of Automated Empathy (2023) and Emotional AI (2018), Founder of the Emotional AI Lab and Professor of Technology and Society, Bangor University.
Interview with De Kai Wu, AI Pioneer and Author of Raising AI.
Interview with De Kai Wu, AI Pioneer and Author of Raising AI. De Kai Wu invented and built the world’s first global-scale online language translator that spawned Google Translate, Yahoo Translate, and Microsoft Bing Translator. De Kai is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST and a Distinguished Research Scholar at Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute. He is an independent director of AI ethics think tank The Future Society, and was one of eight inaugural members of Google’s AI ethics council. De Kai just released his new book Raising AI via MIT Media Press.
Interview with Ravi Iyer, Technologist & Social Impact Researcher
Ravi Iyer is a technologist and academic psychologist working to improve technology's impact on society. He is currently the Research Director for the USC Marshall School's Neely Center and he helps manage the Psychology of Technology Institute.