Social sciences
FATE | Montréal
MSR Montréal’s FATE (fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics) team studies how societal problems like bias can manifest in complex real-world sociotechnical systems, and how we can design these systems to better achieve goals and mitigate problems.
How good is good enough for COVID19 apps?
Social Media and Society
Social science research into the impacts of digital technologies on society, politics, and culture in India
VROOM Telepresence
VROOM (Virtual Robot Overlay for Online Meetings) is a bi-directional asymmetric prototype system for exploring how to improve the social experience of robotic telepresence using VR and AR.
Descriptive Ethics for COVID19 Apps
Summary The COVID19 pandemic spread across the world in late 2019 and early 2020. As the pandemic spread, technologists joined forces with public health officials to develop apps to support COVID19 response, including contact tracing…