Surgical robotics and health informatics are two key technologies that form the basis of a collaboration between the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (FAH-SYSU) and CITRIS.
Projects
ACTIVATE
Research partners from MITRE, CITRIS Health, UC Davis and UC Merced worked with health care teams to identify digital health barriers and co-create new ways to address them.
Lighthouse for Older Adults
Working in partnership with senior living providers, Lighthouse researchers conducted focus groups with residents and staff to identify barriers to technology use.
Superhighway for data-intensive science
Imagine watching volcanic plumes erupting miles beneath the ocean’s surface, in real time. Or using machine learning techniques to detect changes in the starry sky […]
Using AI to detect and prevent falls
SafelyYou, a startup emanating from CITRIS seed-funding, uses AI-enabled camera systems to detect, in real time, falls of individuals with dementia. “The sooner we can […]
Beyond the Brink
Drought, climate change, an aging infrastructure and growing population threaten the water California’s San Joaquin Valley uses to supply most of the nation’s produce and […]
Inclusive AI: Technology and Policy for a Diverse Urban Future
Brandie Nonnecke, PhD Tarunima Prabhakar, MPP Chloe Brown, MPA Camille Crittenden, PhD Download PDF Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise for governments and their citizens, […]
Customer-controlled, Price Mediated, Automated Demand Response for Commercial Buildings (XBOS-DR)
The services demanded of commercial building customers—heating, cooling, ventilating, lighting, computing, and plug loads—require significant energy and contribute to peak energy demand. Large commercial customers […]
UC WATER Security and Sustainability Research Initiative: Innovation for a Resilient Water Future
The UC WATER Security and Sustainability Research Initiative is focused on strategic research to build the knowledge base for better water resources management by applying: […]
CoolClimate Network
Scaling up adoption of low carbon technologies and practices through smart decision-making tools, transformational programs and enabling policies. The CoolClimate Approach The climate crisis is […]
SimCenter: UC Berkeley Leads Development of New Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure
UC Berkeley Professor of Structural Engineering Stephen Mahin will lead a new center for computational modeling and simulation of the effects of natural hazards on […]
CITRIS & ITESM Seed Funding Opportunities
About CITRIS & ITESM Seed Funding Opportunities CITRIS and the Banatao Institute create information technology solutions for society’s most pressing challenges. Established in 2001, the […]
Deep Energy Efficiency
Already a leader in the shift to sustainable energy systems, in 2013 the University of California Carbon Neutrality Initiative made a commitment to re-doubling efforts […]
Interactive Urban Light Project
With Brittney Silva’s tragic May 2014 death fresh in everyone’s memory, the city of San Leandro began collaboration efforts between them and the University of […]
AppCivist
Chancellor’s Award for Public Service 2015-16 for Campus-Community collaboration with the City of Vallejo AppCivist is a platform for democratic assembly and collaborative decision-making. It […]
DengueChat
Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika viruses continue to expand dramatically worldwide in large part due to failed efforts to control the principal mosquito vector, Aedes aegypti. The […]
WordWalk, PokerWalk, & BingoWalk
WordWalk, PokerWalk, and BingoWalk are iPad-based games designed to encourage walking, sociality, exploration and use of city spaces, and cognitive health. The games have been […]
Data for Social Good: Campaign Data & Integrated Voter Engagement
The United States has the lowest electoral participation rates of any advanced industrialized country. Over the past decade, community organizations interested in making U.S. politics […]
Label This!
By Amy Azzarito, Assistant Director of Online Strategy, Library at the University of California, Davis Maynard Amerine, a professor of viticulture and enology at UC […]
Smart Infrastructure in Affordable Housing
The UCSC-Cabrillo College Ecotopia House is a “tiny house” designed to minimize residential ecological footprint through both construction and operation. More sustainable technologies promise new […]
Plug-In Electric Vehicle Smart Charging in California (XBOS-V)
Plug-In Electric Vehicle Smart Charging in California: Open Source Protocol for Grid Operation and Ratepayer Benefits at Residential and Small Commercial Settings (XBOS-V) This interdisciplinary […]
Hamilton: Flexible, Open Source $10 Wireless Sensor System for Energy Efficient Building Operation
This project seeks to create and establish the technological foundations for secure and easy to deploy building energy efficiency applications utilizing pervasive, low-cost wireless sensors […]
IoT & Sustainability: Practice, Policy and Promise White Paper
IoT & Sustainability: Practice, Policy and Promise Brandie Nonnecke, PhD, @BNonnecke Mia Bruch, PhD Camille Crittenden, PhD, @CamCritt Download PDF By 2050 nearly two-thirds of the […]
Special Education Project Wins 2016 CITRIS Big Ideas competition
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute are honored to announce the top five winners in the IT for Society category of the Big Ideas competition. Selected […]