CRITICALLY YOURS
WINNERS
Two Winning Entries
From a wide field of inspiring submissions, two winners were selected for their visionary, human-centred designs that extended TITAN’s mission beyond the lab and into real-world learning contexts.
Their work demonstrated how technology, when guided by empathy and ethics, can empower people to think, not just react.
See the winners: Filtered Realities OneMinute
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Winner: Filtered Realities
Soni Sakshi & Haripriya Dabbiru
National Institute of Design, India
About
Filtered Realities is an interactive journey that reveals how disinformation distorts truth. By letting users toggle between manipulated and accurate versions of the same news event, it builds awareness of common tactics like framing or emotional triggers and aligns with TITAN's mission to empower critical thinking in the age of misinformation.
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Winner:
One Minute
Qin Longyue
Ohio State University
About
'Just Give Me a Minute to Think Critically' reinscribes critical thinking as temporal, embodied and intentional. This is an interactive, web-based experience that puts users against the forces of disinformation to discover the existent TITAN - A Socratic AI guide - and go into multimodal reflection. Through friction, gesture, and inquiry, this project frames critical thinking as active participation in the digital age.
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Special Mentions
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Mindful of Words
by Kautilya Seelam & Prabhjyot Kaur
'Mindful of Words is an animated short that explores how misinformation spreads and transforms as it moves from one person to the other. Told through a childlike, metaphorical visual language, the film remains universal untied to any culture or community yet aims to make every viewer feel the quiet but powerful impact of careless words.'
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Stoopid
by Diodori Francesco
'This project proposes the creation of a minimal, clean motion graphics video to introduce
TITAN, an AI-powered Socratic chatbot designed to help users recognize and combat
disinformation. The video aims to guide viewers through a journey from confusion to
clarity, highlighting the importance of critical thinking and media literacy in the digital age.'
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TITAN for Trusted Journalism by Andrea Kamenska Belanova
'Addressing the news avoidance crisis, my media artefact—promotional video—presents
TITAN's on-site integration as a publisher solution. Through in-article Socratic prompts
readers develop critical thinking skills naturally. Publishers gain measurable engagement lift
while scaling trusted journalism.'