The Hall of Heroes, an idea of digital-signal displays visible only to people wearing certain receptive glasses. (Image by Sandy Pentland.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Alex Pentland
MIT Course Number
MAS.966 / 15.970
As Taught In
Spring 2003
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Highlights
This class contains excellent project proposals, highlighting possible future technologies in digital artifacts.
Course Description
Digital Anthropology is a Spring 2003 applied social science and media arts seminar, surveying the blossoming arena of digital-artifact enabled experimental sociology/anthropology. We will emphasize on both (a) Technology Testbeds – systematically deploying research lab prototypes and corporate pre-production products in a sample human organizational population and carefully observing the social consequences, and (b) Sociometrics – using digital artifacts to better observe and measure the complex social reality of interesting human systems.