Professor Kolko started her academic career in the humanities, and she uses that grounding in theory to inform her current work on technology design. She leads the Design for Digital Inclusion lab, which researches diversity and technology from a design perspective. With the advent of newer, smaller, and cheaper technologies, the user base and use scenarios for information and communication-centric technologies has expanded to include a broader base of the global population. At DDI, we think about the other 5 billion potential users, we think about computing beyond the workplace or the desktop, and we think broadly about technologies that can help address the challenges of everyday life.
Central to Professor Kolko’s work is research on how technologists, social scientists, and humanities scholars can collaborate on technology-related development and implementation projects. She is also conducting research on new educational models that can foster innovation outside traditional boundaries of expertise.
Source, consultée le 26 février 2015.