@MSFTResearch: Atlas: Frameworks and tools for designing and deploying human-centered AI systems across diverse cultural contexts.
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Microsoft Research's Atlas Playbook provides frameworks and tools for designing, deploying, and evaluating human-centered AI systems across diverse cultural contexts, based on fieldwork in Kenya and India.
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Atlas Playbook Walkthrough - Microsoft Research
Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/atlas-playbook-walkthrough/
- February 5, 2026
- Arnab Paul Choudhury, Microsoft
This video walks through the Atlas Playbook, a practical guide for designing, deploying, and evaluating human-centred AI systems across diverse cultural contexts. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and fieldwork conducted in Kenya and India, Atlas provides frameworks, tools, and decision pathways that help practitioners navigate the social, linguistic, organisational, and infrastructural factors that shape AI adoption and use. Throughout the video, viewers are guided through the playbook’s structure, key concepts, and practical resources, including contextual readiness assessments, cultural analysis frameworks, participatory design methods, and deployment planning tools.
Atlas – Guideline for deploying human-centred AI tools across cultures:https://microsoft.github.io/AtlasPlaybook/(opens in new tab)
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