Automation Playground

Where interdisciplinary teams of students, faculty, and affiliated researchers explore the future of mobility and healthcare through People-Centered Design, Distributed Cognition and Pragmatic Speculative Design.

About Us

The Automation Playground applies a People-Centered Design Thinking approach, grounded in the theory of Distributed Cognition and employing Speculative Design ideation practices.

Projects

"The Contract"

Exploring how roles and responsibilities continuously shift between drivers and autonomous systems across different driving situations and activities.

UnBiased

Using Social Signal Processing to understand and detect implicit bias in physician-patient interactions in real-time.

"Smart Mobility"

Developing a multi-layered interactive Mobility Map for the MCAS Miramar Installation using the Geographical Information System, ArcGIS platform by Esri.

Case Study Coming Soon

People

A multidisciplinary group of student and senior researchers working to solve today’s complex challenges of automation in mobility and healthcare.

Publications

Published work exploring relationships between people and automated systems in mobility and healthcare.

Get Involved

We welcome anyone who wants to reach out and help us in our efforts.

A place where interdisciplinary teams of students, faculty and affiliated researchers explore the future of mobility and healthcare through a unique combination of People-Centered Design, Distributed Cognition and Pragmatic Speculative Design.

Automation Playground
UCSD Design Lab
9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093
cemmenegger@ucsd.edu