Google Award on Society-Centered AI 2025

DALTON project received the Award in 2023 and again in 2025 for extending the platform to living labs. The Society-Centered approach involves understanding societal needs and challenges facing diverse communities around the globe, developing useful technologies or innovations that are responsive to these needs together with the communities impacted, and measuring the success by the impact on those communities. Crucially, the approach involves collective efforts that bring together multiple stakeholder groups, often through direct partnership with organizations that can represent the perspectives and needs of impacted communities.

• Society-Centered AI will fund research projects that promote the society-centered research approach to shape the positive outcomes of AI for a better future. We are seeking research proposals that advance AI applications relating to accessibility, health care, cultural production, upskilling, or other topics related to the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

• Project title: From DALTON to Living Labs: Scalable, Inclusive, and Explainable AI for Indoor Air Quality and Behavioral Change – Sandip Chakraborty (PhD Advisor), IIT Kharagpur