Publications & Reports
Flood Warning Signs/Risky Driving Article Messaging
Flood warning signs work—but not how you'd expect. In our new study of over 1,000 Texas drivers, we found that simply having seen a "Turn Around Don't Drown" road sign in the past made drivers almost twice as likely to turn their car around during flooding...
Ethics Before Efficiency: Austin’s Model for Responsible Government AI
“What happens when a city asks ‘Should we’ before ‘Can we?’ with AI?” In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) can bring unprecedented efficiency to cities, the real challenge isn’t just about how fast governments can adopt new tools but whether they do so in ways...
Faculty and Students from the Department of Communication Secure Prestigious Grants
Craig Scott (PI), Keri Stephens (Co-PI) and Mir Rabby (Co-PI, and TIPI graduate research assistant) received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). As automated decision-making through algorithmic systems is...
TIPI Announces Spring 2025 Graduate Student Research Fellows
The Technology and Information Policy Institute (TIPI) is thrilled to announce the recipients of our Graduate Student Research Fellowships for Spring 2025. We have funded six exceptional projects at the end of the last spring semester that delve into the complex...
TIPI NCA Annual Conference 2024
The National Communication Association (NCA) is hosting it’s 110th Annual Convention: Communication for Greater Regard from November 21st-24th in New Orleans, Louisiana.
New White Paper Offers Ethical Guidelines for Procurement and Management of Smart City Technologies
The rapid advancement of smart city technologies, particularly the widespread deployment of camera-based surveillance systems, has sparked popular conversation about ethics, transparency, and accountability in data collection and use.
Strengthening Community Resilience: Connecting Online and Offline Networks
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin (including TIPI researchers) explored how Texas communities responded during the 2021 winter storm.
Human-AI Teaming During an Ongoing Disaster
When people train and give feedback to a machine involved in machine learning/artificial intelligence, sometimes they communicate with the machine as if it is a valued teammate…
Investigating Ways to Better Communicate Flood Risk
There are very few current flood maps designed to actually help people understand their flood risk…
Case Study Vignettes: Surveillance, Privacy, and Ethical Governance
This case studies series is part of the research project Being Watched: Embedding Ethics in Public Cameras supported by Good Systems: A UT Grand Challenge…