IDEA Labs

Welcome to Innovation Design & Empowerment Applications Lab or in short IDEA Labs. We are a unique laboratory at Claremont Graduate University where we design, research and develop IT artifacts that can solve human and social problems. We believe in collaboration and excellence. Using an inter-disciplinary lens, our faculty and students tackle challenging problems and come up with new innovative solutions. We encourage out-of-the-box thinking and we support challenging the status-quo. We follow a simple paradigm called Design Science - State the problem, design (iteratively) a artifact, test and evaluate its efficacy and publish evidence - for which we are well-known within the IS community. We are always interested in smart students and collaborators.

IDEA Labs currently has many projects underway in areas and domains such as sensor networks, chronic disease management systems, social media, healthcare and energy informatics. Our recent projects utilizes advanced machine learning and AI. Some recent projects include predicting cancer care-giver burden, building apps to promote human flourishing, designing smart and sustainable buildings/cities, deploying remote patient monitoring technology for heart-failure and cardiac patients in southern claifornia clinics. We were instrumental in establishing the ITU-T H.350 standard which you will now find embedded in all Cisco and commercial video-conferencing products. IDEA lab also leads in the field of persuasive technology. These are hardware/software/devices that can alter human behavior and attitude without deception or coercion. Our research entials both theory development as well as designing systems that have actual impact in the real world. IDEA Labs has graduated 36 doctoral students to date who are now in academia and industry throughout the world.

We were started in 2002 by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Initially we were called NCL (Network Convergence Lab). In 2012, we celebrated our 10th anniversary. In 2014 we changed the name of our lab to IDEA which reflects what we do - design IT products and services to make it a better world for society.

We are glad that you have stumbled upon us or you came to us deliberately. Whatever may be the reason, please check out our people and projects. Again welcome to IDEA Labs, where people, knowledge, and technologies converge! We look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Dr. Samir Chatterjee

Professor & Fletcher Jones Chair

Founder & Director of IDEA Lab