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Empowering online communities with NSF grant

Nori Jacoby, assistant professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded an NSF fellowship for a project to develop algorithms to more effectively harness the intelligence of crowds by improving the quality of collective evaluations. 

“Designing Smart Environments to Augment Collective Learning & Creativity” 

The project promises to lead to more effective crowd-sourced feedback systems, which can empower communities to govern themselves and manage public spaces and services through bottom-up initiatives rather than top-down direction. 

“Designing Smart Environments to Augment Collective Learning & Creativity,” is Jacoby’s collaboration with co-principal investigators at Princeton University, City University of New York, and the University of California, Davis. Jacoby's lab at Cornell will hire a postdoctoral researcher focused on collective creativity and collaborate with other groups on collective learning, intelligence and decision-making.

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