InACM CSCW BlogbySam W. T. Chan·Jan 25, 2022Engaging, comforting and charismatic— benefits of using voices of friends and family in interfacesImagine hearing a reminder from your smart speaker, in the voice of your close friend, asking you to go out and exercise. How does that…
Jina Huh-Yoo·Jan 1, 20222021 Year-in-Review: Health and Happiness Design Lab at Drexel UniversityThis is the second Year-in-Review of the Health and Happiness Design Lab. Many of our lab members developed non-trivial health issues and…
InACM CSCW BlogbyKristen Barta·Oct 27, 2021“Just be you,” but for whom?: How authenticity and identity work on TikTokOn social media, who you are — but also, who you appear to be to other users and the algorithms running in the background — matters. They…A response icon3A response icon3
InACM CSCW BlogbyC. Estelle Smith·Oct 24, 2021Social Computing Researchers Need to Pay Attention to Religion & Spirituality in DesignEverything changes when you or someone you love receives a life-threatening health diagnosis & tech can do better to honor that.
InACM CSCW BlogbyC. Estelle Smith·Oct 24, 2021Rethinking Mental Health Interventions: How Crowd-Powered Therapy Can Help Everyone Help EveryoneWe all have dark thoughts sometimes. And if you’ve ever been a graduate student, perhaps thoughts like the following feel familiar:
InACM CSCW BlogbyHong Shen·Oct 24, 2021Everyday Algorithm Auditing: Understanding the Power of Everyday Users in Surfacing Harmful…This blog post is a summary of the paper about how everyday users detect, understand, and interrogate problematic machine behaviors via…
Zachary Levonian·Oct 22, 202121 CSCW 2021 papers to readCSCW 2021 is coming up fast and these are my paper picks.
InACM CSCW BlogbyAnthony Poon·Oct 22, 2021Designing Technology to Meet the Peer Support Needs of Home Care WorkersThis post summarizes the paper “Computer-Mediated Peer Support Needs of Home Care Workers: Emotional Labor & the Politics of…
InACM CSCW BlogbyRichmond Wong·Oct 21, 2021Creating Values and Ethics-Oriented Changes at Tech Companies through Everyday UX WorkResearch on everyday actions that UX professionals use to contest, resist, or attempt to change tech companies toward ethical outcomes.
InACM CSCW BlogbyKen Jen Lee·Oct 18, 2021Curiosity Notebook: The Design of a Research Platform for Learning by TeachingThis post summarizes the paper “Curiosity Notebook: The Design of a Research Platform for Learning by Teaching”, by Ken Jen Lee, Apoorva…
