Anastasia Ostrowski

Postdoctoral Associate
Groups
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Bringing design justice to the classroom and workplace

Project shares ways to create community around design equity, ethics, and justice.
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Article by Design Justice Project at MIT featured in ASME Journal of Mechanical Design

The article is titled: "What Do We Mean When We Write About Ethics, Equity, And Justice In Engineering Design?"
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Congratulations to everyone graduating in 2023!

We're so proud of everything you've accomplished here, and can't wait to see what you do next.
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Anastasia Ostrowski named a 2022 Amazon Robotics Fellow

Anastasia Ostrowski, a PhD student in the Personal Robots group, is among five MIT PhD students honored with Amazon fellowships.
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Understanding and Embedding Design Justice in Design Processes

How do we meaningfully engage with topics such as ethics, equity, and justice in our design processes?
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"An Ethics, Equity, and Justice Audit and Reimagination of Engineering Education" receives seed funding from MIT IDSS and SSRC program

The IDSS/SSRC Combatting Systemic Racism Seed Fund Program supports innovative, early-stage cross-disciplinary research projects.
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Could humanlike behavior make smart devices more engaging? MIT researchers think so

A new study by researchers from the Personal Robots group and collaborators assesses how families interact with voice-user interfaces.
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“Hey, Alexa! Are you trustworthy?”

The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and think it competent.
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Personal Robots team wins Best Paper Award at RO-MAN 2021

For the paper, “Long-Term Co-Design Guidelines: Empowering Older Adults as Co-Designers of Social Robots"
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Anastasia Ostrowski and Daniella DiPaola receive an award from the Harold Horowitz (1951) Student Research Fund

Established in 1999, the Harold Horowitz (1951) Student Research Fund makes awards on an annual basis to students in SA+P.
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Media Lab X.0: Anthology of Tomorrows

As a part of Proseminar in Media Arts and Sciences, the newly-minted PhD cohort works together to envision future Media Lab research groups
Dec. 8, 2020
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Robots will be tools for older adults and care givers in the future

Anastasia Ostrowski talks to the Digital Future Society about her work in this Q+A.
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Overview of Members Week 2050 Lab Updates (Community Design + Ethics Group)

We are proud to welcome Community + Ethics to the MIT Media Lab! As you may recall, Community + Ethics joined the Media Lab.
Video Videos

MLVoices: Anastasia Ostrowski

Anastasia Ostrowski, a research assistant in the Personal Robots group, discusses her journey into the field of engineering.
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Lifelong Learners: Insights from an intergenerational initiative

We believe that knowledge belongs to everyone.
Feb. 11, 2020
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Social robots as social catalysts: Collaborating with older adults as design research partners

When they’re valued as design research partners, older adults feel empowered to contribute to technology design.
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Voice Agent Interaction Study

The Personal Robots group is running a study from July 8-18, 2019 to understand how we can design interactive robot technolo…
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Media Lab research at CHI 2019

The following Media Lab groups and projects are represented at CHI 2019
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Designing social robots for older adults

Researchers present a user-centered design approach to creating intelligent social technologies to empower and help older adults at home.