Ecologies of Contestation at PDC 2020

We will be presenting a talk on our research around contestations in participatory design at the Participatory Design Conference (PDC Continue reading →

Cooperative Crisis Response among Emergency Responders & AI Systems

Emergency responders are increasingly functioning as knowledge workers relying on complex information systems, social media, and digital communication for situational Continue reading →

Conducting HCI Research in the Wild: Distributed Cognition and Situational Awareness

We are seeing a dramatic shift in the nature of computing in our everyday lives, increasingly entering people’s homes, bodies, Continue reading →

Democratizing Data: Grassroots Strategies for Human Rights

Seen as essential to understanding human life, data informs and shapes knowledge creation. It is powerful, political, and for generations has Continue reading →

Designing in Public Space: Contestation & the Politics of Inclusion

How might we transform public urban spaces to better engage communities? How do we design a process that incorporates the Continue reading →

GIDEST Talk on Contestational Design

Participatory design for some often implies common purpose, stakes and equitable dispositions among participants engaging in a consensual process towards amenable design outcomes. Continue reading →

Audio Journaling for Self-Reflection among Teens in Participatory Media

In this project we examined the use of “Audio Journaling” as a multi-faceted practice and participatory research method to engage Continue reading →

Zona Intervenida: Performance as Memory, Transforming Contested Spaces

Traces of war and injustice often disappear from physical sites of conflict, lingering only in the fragmented memories of witnesses Continue reading →