Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Steven Dow ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://unquote.ucsd.edu/spdow/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Pages - [Home](https://unquote.ucsd.edu/spdow/) - I am a Professor in the Department Cognitive Science and in the Design Lab at UC San Diego. My research group explores how we might design socio-technical systems that support collective problem solving within communities. I teach courses on interaction design, social computing, and mobile service innovation. Learn more about me and our research program, - [Research](https://unquote.ucsd.edu/spdow/research/) - Design can no longer be seen as a solitary endeavor where a designer, through pure force of talent, improves a product or service, and then hands it off to a community of use. My research empirically examines design practices and develops technology to support creative individuals, groups, and crowds. We seek to deepen our understanding - [About](https://unquote.ucsd.edu/spdow/about/) - Steven Dow is a Professor in the Cognitive Science Department and the Design Lab at UC San Diego, Director of the ProtoLab research group, and Co-Founder of the Design for San Diego initiative. His research on human-computer interaction, creativity, social computing and collective intelligence seeks to engage diverse teams and communities to co-create better, more - [Teaching](https://unquote.ucsd.edu/spdow/teaching/) - Prof. Dow teaches primarily project-based classes in interaction design, prototyping, entrepreneurship, social computing and collective intelligence at UC San Diego. His courses teach students the tools and processes for designing interactions between humans and technology, drawing from fields as diverse as cognitive science, software engineering, artificial intelligence, sociology, psychology, and organizational behavior. Classes COGS 123Social