Tech Study Plans give students
and researchers descriptions of
experiments that, if conducted,
could yield timely results to
improve the world in the
public's interest.
and researchers descriptions of
experiments that, if conducted,
could yield timely results to
improve the world in the
public's interest.
example topics
Evaluating the impact of the design of fundraising platforms on donation
efficacy
Protecting financial transaction data on online payment platforms
Investigating bias in online search autosuggestions
Investigating gender, race and ethnic discrimination on job recommendation
websites
Social connectedness and augmented reality
Targeting of social service beneficiaries
Deepfake Investigations
Social Media and Student Mental Health
Police use of consumer security systems
Identity theft investigations
Home privacy and real estate
Disability discrimination on interview platforms
Online dating services outing of LGB+ users
Vulnerabilities from phone number identification hacking
Not everyone's online search yields the same search results
Autonomous vehicles and city government
Social cooling and the individual’s control of their data
Digital vaccine passports
Distributed privacy-preserving advertising
Autogenerated hatred content on social media
Trading exchanges in the cryptocurrency era
Geographical price discrimination in airfare prices
our hypothesis
If you want to save the world, we can help. We offer curated research proposals that can make the world a better place. We provide the outline, as well as specific tasks to conduct, and you bring the resolution.
Our proposals focus on addressing tension between society and technology. Many plans even expose vulnerable systems that important organizations rely on. We like to work with researchers from virtually any discipline, including but not limited to, social science, computer science, political science, economics, statistics, and psychology. Below are some examples of completed summaries.
