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UofT at CSCW 2022

Submitted on Tuesday, November 08, 2022

Several faculty members and students from the Faculty of Information and other UofT departments will be presenting work at the upcoming CSCW 2022 conference, the premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities and networks.

Highlighted below are sessions featuring UofT participants. The conference begins today, November 8 and runs until November 22.

Papers:

Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Mohammad Ruhul Amin, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Situating Public Speaking: The Politics and Poetics of the Digital Islamic Sermons in Bangladesh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3512911
Session: Current and Future Practices in HCI and CSCW
Sat, Nov 12 | 06:50 – 07:00
Thu, Nov 17 | 18:50 – 19:00

Yasaman Rohanifar, Sharifa Sultana, Shaid Hasan, Priyank Chandra, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, “Kabootar”: Towards Informal, Trustworthy, and Community-Based FinTech for Marginalized Immigrants
Session: ICTD, Rural Environments. And Immigration
Fri, Nov 11 | 13:50 – 14:00
Fri, Nov 18 | 01:50 – 02:00

Sharifa Sultana, Pratyasha Saha, Shaid Hasan, S.M. Raihanul Alam, Rokeya Akter, Md Mirajul Islam, Raihan Islam Arnob, A.K.M. Najmul Islam, Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Imagined Online Communities: Communionship, Sovereignty, and Inclusiveness in Bangladeshi Facebook Groups
Session: Online Community & Inclusivity
Wed, Nov 9 | 10:00 – 10:10
Fri, Nov 18 | 22:00 – 22:10

Aparna Moitra, Robert Soden, Manveer Kalirai, Dennis Wagenaar, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, AI and Disaster Risk: A Practitioner Perspective
Session: Disaster Response
Thu, Nov 10 | 06:30 – 06:40
Fri, Nov 18 | 18:30 – 18:40

Manika Saha, Delvin Varghese, Tom Bartindale, Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Patrick Olivier, Towards Sustainable ICTD in Bangladesh: Understanding the Program and Policy Landscape and its Implications for CSCW and HCI
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3512973
Session: ICTD, Rural Environments. And Immigration
Fri, Nov 11 | 13:00 – 13:10
Fri, Nov 18 | 01:00 – 01:10

Ananya Bhattacharjee, Joseph Jay Williams, Karrie Chou, Justice Tomlinson, Jonah Meyerhoff, Alex Mariakakis, Rachel Kornfield. “I Kind of Bounce off It”: Translating Mental Health Principles into Real Life Through Story-Based Text Messages.
Session: Mental Health
Times: Friday Nov 11 4:00-5:00, Wednesday Nov 16 16:00-17:00

Rachel Kornfield, David C Mohr, Rachel Ranney, Emily G Lattie, Jonah Meyerhoff, Joseph Jay Williams, Madhu Reddy. Involving Crowdworkers with Lived Experience in Content-Development for Push-Based Digital Mental Health Tools: Lessons Learned from Crowdsourcing Mental Health Messages.
Session: Crowdsourcing
Times: Thursday Nov 10 1:00-2:00, Friday Nov 18 13:00-14:00

Fayika Farhat Nova, Rachel Pfafman, Kelley Kardys, Connie Kerrigan, Shion Guha, and Jessica Pater. 2022. Uncovering Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) from Clinical Narratives within the Electronic Health Record. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW2, Article 547 (November 2022), 29 pages. https://doi.org/ 10.1145/3555605
Session: Health Technologies

Amna Liaqat, Benett Axtell, Cosmin Munteanu. “With a hint she will remember”: Collaborative Storytelling and Culture Sharing between Immigrant Grandparents and Grandchildren Via Magic Thing Designs.
Session: ICTD, Rural Environments, and Immigration
Times: Fri, Nov 11 | 12:00 – 13:00, Thu, Nov 17 | 00:40 – 00:50

Paridhi Gupta, Adrian Petterson, Divyani Motla, Priyank Chandra. “Ladange, Adange, Jeetange: The Farmers’ Movement and Its Virtual Spaces”
Session: Collective Action
Times: Wed, Nov 9 | 04:00 – 05:00, Fri, Nov 18 | 16:00 – 17:00

Kartikaeya Kumar, Lev Poretski, Jiannan Li, Anthony Tang
Tourgether360: Collaborative Exploration of 360 Tour Videos using Pseudo-Spatial Navigation
Session: XR Collaboration
Time: Fri, Nov 11 | 05:40 – 05:50, Wed, Nov 16 | 17:40 – 17:50

Franklin Mingzhe Li, Cheng Lu, Zhicong Lu, Patrick Carrington, Khai Truong
An Exploration of Captioning Practices and Challenges of Individual Content Creators on YouTube for People with Hearing Impairments
Session: Accessibility
Time: Thu, Nov 10 | 09:10 – 09:20, Tue, Nov 15 | 21:10 – 21:20

Dawn Walker, Mai Ishikawa Sutton, Udit Vira, Benedict Lau
Commoning for Fun and Profit: Experimental Publishing on the Decentralized Web
Session: Online Platforms
Time: Thu, Nov 10 | 02:00 – 03:00, Tue, Nov 15 | 14:50 – 15:00

Workshops
Logan Stapleton, Devansh Saxena, Anna Kawakami, Tonya Nguyen, Asbjørn Ammitzbøll Flügge, Motahhare Eslami, Naja Holten Møller, Min Kyung Lee, Shion Guha, Kenneth Holstein, and Haiyi Zhu. 2022. Who Has an Interest in “Public Interest Technology”?: Critical Questions for Working with Local Governments & Impacted Communities. In Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW’22 Companion), November 8–22, 2022, Virtual Event, Taiwan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3500868.3560484

Linda Huber, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, EunJeong Cheon, P M Krafft, Christoph Becker, Danny Spitzberg, Aakash Gautam, Maggie Hughes, and Alex Ahmed. Solidarity and Disruption (Collective Organizing In Computing II). In Proceedings of CSCW Companion, ACM. November 8–22, 2022, Virtual Event, Taiwan. ACM, New York, NY, USA (in press). https://collectiveorganizingcscw22.wordpress.com/

Demo:
Yasaman Rohanifar, Sharifa Sultana, Shaid Hasan, Priyank Chandra, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, “Kabootar”: Towards Informal, Trustworthy, and Community-Based FinTech for Marginalized Immigrants