At the Good Drone Lab our research focuses on how technology like drones are used by civil society. We got our start creating baseline estimates of non-violent drone use and developing an methodology for estimating crowd size.
- Choi-Fitzpatrick, Austin. 2020. The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance. MIT Press.
- Choi-Fitzpatrick, Austin, Tautvydas Juskauskas, and Mohammed Sabur. 2018. “All the Protestors fit to Count: Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Estimate Crowd Size in Urban Environs.” Interface 10(1-2), 297-321.
- Choi-Fitzpatrick, Austin. 2018. “Drones, Camera Innovaitons and Conceptions of Human Rights,” In The Visual in Human Rights Practice, eds Monroe Price and Sandra Ristovska. Palgrave MacMillan.
- Choi-Fitzpatrick, Austin, Dana Chavarria, Elizabeth Cychosz, John Paul Dingens, Michael Duffey, Katherine Koebel, Sirisack Siriphanh, Merlynn Yurika Tulen, Heath Watanabe, Tautvydas Juskauskas, Lars Almquist, John Holland. 2016. “Up in the Air: A Global Estimate of non-Military Drone Usage: 2009-2015.” The Good Drone Lab, Kroc School of Peace Studies and Center for Media, Data, and Society, Central European University. (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22371/08.2016.001)
- Choi-Fitzpatrick, Austin and Tautvydas Juskauskas. 2015. “Up in the Air: Applying the Jacobs Crowd Formula to Drone Imagery.” Procedia Engineering 107: 273-281.
- Choi-Fitzpatrick, Austin. 2014. “Drones for Good: Technological Innovation, Social Movements and the State." Columbia Journal of International Affairs. Volume 68; Number 1. 1-18.