Principal Investigator Mark Klein
Project Website http://cci.mit.edu/research/deliberatorium.html
This project is exploring how to integrate ideas from argumentation theory and social computing to help large numbers of people enumerate the issues, ideas, and tradeoffs for complex problems with much greater signal-to-noise and much more systematic organization than existing (e.g. forum, wiki, or idea-sharing) technologies.
The Deliberatorium is a technology designed to help large numbers of people, distributed in space and time, combine their insights to find well-founded solutions for such complex multi-stakeholder, multi-discplinary ("wicked") problems as sustainability, climate change policy, complex product design, and so on.