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Stanford Bulletin, Archive 2008-09
Stanford Bulletin, Archive 2008-09
Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute (H-STAR)
Executive Committee: Keith Devlin, Valerie Halperin, Roy Pea, Byron Reeves
Web Site: http://hstar.stanford.edu
H-STAR (Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research) is an interdisciplinary research institute focusing on how people use technology, how to better design technology to make it more usable and more competitive in the marketplace, how technology affects people's lives, and the innovative use of technologies in research, education, art, business, commerce, entertainment, communication, national security, and other walks of life. Among the problems at the heart of the H-STAR research agendas are:
- Reducing complexity of technology to enable its universal uses for work, learning and other vital sectors of life
- Closing digital divides across class, race, gender, age, and nations, so that access to and fluencies in technologies provide equal opportunities to learn and work productively
- Accelerating innovation in the creation and diffusion of products and services that better meet human needs
- Solving security and trust problems of computing, communications, and information systems at home and work and in governmental affairs
- Ensuring safety and health with human-centered technology innovations
Within H-STAR are two interdisciplinary centers, CSLI (the Center for the Study of Language and Information) and SCIL (the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning), and an industry partners program, Media X.
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