Faculty of Information professors and students will have a strong presence at the 27th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) taking place in San José, Costa Rica next week (November 9-13). CSCW is the premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. It brings together top researchers and practitioners to explore the technical, social, material, and theoretical challenges of designing technology to support collaborative work and life activities.
For more details, see the 2024 conference program.
Below you will find a list of Awards and Papers with the names of Faculty of Information participants bolded.
Awards
- Honorable Mention: Value Tensions in OpenStreetMap: Openness, Membership, and Policy in Online Communities, by Aarjav Chauhan, Dipto Sarkar, Taneea S Agrawaal, Robert Soden
- DEI Recognition: El costo de la independencia: Latino house-cleaners in Technology-Mediated Labour Markets, by Isabella Jaimes Rodriguez, Adrian Petterson, Olivia Doggett, Priyank Chandra
Papers
- Value Tensions in OpenStreetMap: Openness, Membership, and Policy in Online Communities, by Aarjav Chauhan, Dipto Sarkar, Taneea S Agrawaal, Robert Soden
- El costo de la independencia: Latino house-cleaners in Technology-Mediated Labour Markets, by Isabella Jaimes Rodriguez, Adrian Petterson, Olivia Doggett, Priyank Chandra
- Union Makes Us Strong: Space, Technology, and On-Demand Ridesourcing Digital Labour Platforms, by Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat, Dipsita Dhar, Priyank Chandra
- Aftermath: Infrastructure, Resources, and Organizational Adaptation in the Wake of Disaster, by Shreyasha Paudel, Wendy Norris, Robert Soden
- Moving Towards Mobility Justice: Challenges and Considerations for Supporting Advocacy, by Taneea Agrawaal, Samar Sabie, Robert Soden
- Digital Gig Work Under Unstable Energy Infrastructures: Invisible Workarounds and Alternative Imaginaries, by Olivia Doggett, Sarah Graham, Sophia Jit, Basel Harb, Houssam Harb, Mohamad Shafik, Robert Soden, Matt Ratto
- “The Explanation That Hits Home: The Characteristics of Verbal Explanations That Affect Human Perception in Subjective Decision-Making”, by Ferguson, S., Akemi Aoyagui, P., Rizvi, R., Kim, Y., Kuzminykh, A.
- “Guiding Students in Using LLMs in Supported Learning Environments: Effects on Interaction Dynamics, Learner Performance, Confidence, and Trust”. By Kumar, H., Musabirov, I., Reza, M., Shi, J., Kuzminykh, A., Willliams, J.J., Liut, M.
- “The Politics of Fear and the Experience of Bangladeshi Religious Minority Communities Using Social Media Platforms”. Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat*, Dipto Das*, Arpon Podder, Mahiratul Jannat, Robert Soden, Bryan Semaan, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
SIG
- “Organizing for More Just and Inclusive Futures: A Community”, by Kim Fernandes, Rahaf Alharbi, Cella Sum, Vaishnav Kameswaran, Franchesca Spektor, Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat, Adrian Petterson, Megh Marathe, Foad Hamidi, Priyank Chandra
Workshop Organizing
- “Caring for reproductive justice: design in response to adversity”, by Benedetta Lusi, Adrian Petterson, Kamala Payyapilly Thiruvenkatanathan, Michaela Krawczyk, Emily Tseng, Lara Reime, Madeline Balaam, Katie A. Siek, Cristina Zaga
- “Worker Data Collectives as a means to Improve Accountability, Combat Surveillance and Reduce Inequalities”, Jane Hsieh, Angie Zhang, Seyun Kim, Varun Nagaraj Rao, Samantha Dalal, Alexandra Mateescu, Rafael Do Nascimento Grohmann, Motahhare Eslami, Min Kyung Lee, Haiyi Zhu
- “HCI, Mobility Justice, and Migration in the Face of Climate Crisis,” by Louisa Kayah Williams,Rayan Awad Alim, Vishal Sharma, Reem Talhouk, Marisol Wong-Villacrés, Lynn Kirabo, Tajanae Harris, Dipto Das, Carleen Maitland, Bryan Semaan, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Robert Soden
Workshop paper
- “Productive tensions in emerging contexts of care: Naturally-occurring retirement communities as a liminal space for design”, by Matt Ratto, Chris Ferguson, Robyn Carino, Samiha Essakhi, Mia Mo, Shoshanna Hahn-Goldberg, Joe Pedulla, in “Collective Imaginaries for the Future of Care Work.”
Panel
- Datafication Dilemmas: Data Governance in the Public Interest (Shion Guha)
Contributions from U of T participants outside Faculty of Information
Papers
- “A Lot of Moving Parts”: A Case Study of Open-Source Hardware Design Collaboration in the Thingiverse Community, by Kathy Cheng, Shurui Zhou, and Alison Olechowski
- “Actually I Can Count My Blessings”: User-Centered Design of an Application to Promote Gratitude Among Young Adults. Ananya Bhattacharjee, Zichen Gong, Bingcheng Wang, Timothy James Luckcock, Emma Watson, Elena Allica Abellan, Leslie Gutman, Anne Hsu, and Joseph Jay Williams.
- “Reimagining Communities through Transnational Bengali Decolonial Discourse with YouTube Content Creators,” by Dipto Das, Dhwani Gandhi, and Bryan Semaan
Panel
- (Un)designing AI for Mental and Spiritual Wellbeing. C. Estelle Smith, Alemitu Bezabih, Diana Freed, Brett A. Halperin, Sara Wolf, Caroline Claisse, Jingjin Li, Michael J Hoefer, and Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat.
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