Designing Tomorrow

CILab is an interdisciplinary hub exploring the intersection of technology and culture to design innovative applications that empower individuals and promote digital wellbeing

Embracing the transformative potential of digital technologies to drive positive social impact

Our diverse community of researchers seeks to explore, conceptualise and demonstrate the design challenges deriving both from human and system perspectives, identifying the socio-technical concepts that should be considered for an integrated implementation of cultural digital ecosystems. We aim to create a collaborative experimentation environment for the design and implementation of innovative scenarios for examining the blurring of distinctions between reality and virtuality, as well as between people, machines, and nature.

Our Research Areas

Conceptual Modeling

Promotes research in the domain of requirements engineering and information systems design, using conceptual modelling as a theoretical tool, pursuing the alignment of the cultural organisations’ objectives with supporting information and communication technologies.

New Technologies and Representation

Explores the multimedia audiovisual environment of the arts of the contemporary world, within the broader cultural context of posthumanism, while giving emphasis to the production of new theories.

E-Learning

Exploits models and theories of digital learning in the context of educational design and production of educational applications addressed to a wide range of users with varying educational background and cultural characteristics. In addition it focuses in the analysis and interpretation of data generated by learners’ interactions in e-learning environments.

Digital Wellbeing by Design

Investigates how our conceptual understanding of wellbeing has been altered by digital transformation and the new modes of collaboration between human and artificial agents, promoting a common understanding of wellbeing between social scientists and system developers.

Get Involved

CILab is proud to nurture students in their educational journey and prepare them for future careers as research scientists and cultural informatics professionals. Our faculty collaborates with both undergraduate and postgraduate candidates to develop research theses or tailor internships that meet the students’ needs while aligning with CILab’s objectives and expertise. There are also opportunities to support CILab through volunteering. Some of the activities that volunteers have undertaken in the past include participation in focus groups the organization of dissemination events. Contact us to find out how to become a fundamental part of the CILab’s activities and day-to-day operations.

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