cs 184 info session - stanford university
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CS 184 Info Session
Bridging Policy and Tech Through Design
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Course Overview
- Spring 2021, March 29 – June 6, 4 units (3 for graduate students)- Team-based co-creation with partner organization on interdisciplinary policy
and technology projects- Course website: http://i.stanford.edu/~ullman/cs184.html- Application: tinyurl.com/CS184app- Apply by Friday, March 19th
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Project DetailsDeliverables:
- Midway “prototype”- Final “prototype”- Pitch deck and final presentation to students, faculty, partner orgs, and the
larger community
Goals:
- Detailed understanding of problem at intersection of technology, policy, and civil society
- Experiential learning and meaningful connections with partner organizations- Building a community on and off campus for public-facing technology- A new framework for addressing systemic change
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Logistics
- Teams of 3-4 students- NOTE: you can apply both individually or as a team, it’s up to you :)
- Will be arranged before week one- Interdisciplinary backgrounds (i.e. at least one student with a social science
background and one with a computing background)
- One full class meeting on Tuesdays at 4:30pm PT for up to 80 min - One team meeting per week to be scheduled by teams
- Joined by partner organization and Stanford-internal mentors
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Questions so far? 🧐
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Partner Orgs and Mentors
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Business and Human Rights Resource Center
Mentor: Professor Ullman with advice from BHRRC
Project: How can we classify and understand the trends of human rights policies and articles?
Data sources: Internal tagged and classified articles
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Mentor: Special Consultant to the Chief Data Officer of California
Project: How can we create a user-oriented open data handbook for California data publishers?
Data sources: CGOA Internal data, current open data handbook and open data portal documentation (including publisher guide, FAQs, etc.
California Government Operations Agency
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Dark Patterns Project
Mentor: Two project leads at the MIT Media Lab and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
Project: What are the most harmful deceptive patterns on user interfaces and how can we communicate the dangers they pose?
Data sources: Broad collected sets of dark pattern literature
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Mentor: Facebook AI Researcher
Project: What hate speech policies are both equitable and implementable by computer?
Data sources: Facebook’s Hateful Memes dataset
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Formally
Mentor: Formally CEO, CTO
Project: How can we build a tool for more accessible navigation of immigration forms?
Data sources: Internal Formally data
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Mentor: Founder, MetaGov
Project: How can we design, build, and test a workable system for community governance?
Data sources: Internal data on primary-source documentation of the governance of online communities.
MetaGov
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SFUSD and Stanford
Mentor: SFUSD partner, two Stanford Professors, a student researcher
Project: How can we assign students to public elementary schools equitably?
Data sources: Features of simulated assignment policies and their effect on students
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Mentor: Digital Civil Society Lab Practitioner Fellow
Project: What can tweets tell us about Americans’ feelings about student loan debt policy?
Data sources: Twitter’s API
Student Loans
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APPLY BY FRIDAY, MARCH 19
👉tinyurl.com/CS184app👈
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Thank you!
CS184 Teaching Team