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The Design Research Lab is a network of people, organisations, and non-human agents engaged at the intersection of technologies, materials, and social practices. Our aim is to design socially and ecologically sustainable tools, spaces, and knowledge that support people’s participation in a digital society – based on common principles of inclusiveness and respect for the planet. This puts the basic democratic right to take part in the digital sphere into practice. We start our research from individual lifeworlds and the needs of minoritized groups, beyond consumer majorities.
We are an interdisciplinary team of designers, researchers, tech-enthusiasts and critical thinkers from Berlin University of the Arts, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, as well as Einsteincenter Digital Future (ECDF).
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LaLaMo
The Design Research eXplorations (DRX) team at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH and SAP are investigating how a human centric methodology can influence the design of AI driven products revolving around Large Language Models (LLMs). The project, called LaLaMo, aims to explore if LLM capabilities built with humans-in-the-loop perform better than those without.
Design is critical when developing human-centered products to fit expectations, be educational, and provide inclusive, unique, and enjoyable user-experiences (UX). The overall goal of this project is to identify where LLMs and user interfaces can be improved through a human-centric feedback approach. This strategy will ultimately lead to a more personalized and meaningful UX.
