Where Tech and
Social Impact Meet

We design and develop social, political, and technological  interventions and provide short and long-term evaluation about the results of our research action.

Social & Technological Action Research Group

The STAR Lab is research group comprised of interdisciplinary doctoral students, post-docs, and undergraduate students within the Donald Bren School of Computer and Information Science at University of California Irvine. 

Research Areas

ACCESIBILITY

Developing distance based support groups to augment in person support.

SOCIAL COMPUTING

Creating social interventions through technology.

HEALTH INFORMATICS

Understanding information behavior in healthcare settings.

DESIGN RESEARCH

Designing socio-technical systems utilizing co-participatory design.

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Our collaborations

We are incredibly grateful for support from the following organizations and funding programs:​