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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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Tactful Calling on Android
Tactful Calling helps people to make polite phone calls. They can indicate the urgency of the call and include a brief subject line. The call receiver sees this information before deciding to take or reject the call. At the same time, s/he can inform the caller about the reasons for rejecting the call, and express when a better time to talk would be.
The service
Tactful Calling is an Android application that lets callers indicate the urgency of their call, as well as the subject (and estimated length) of the conversation. It integrates with the existing Android phone call application.
