A5067725152- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- ICT in Developing Communities
- E-Government and Public Services
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Social Media and Politics
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
- Digital Games and Media
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- Latin American socio-political dynamics
- Gender and Technology in Education
- Technology Use by Older Adults
- Particle Detector Development and Performance
- Information Systems Theories and Implementation
- Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Open Source Software Innovations
- E-Learning and Knowledge Management
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
IBM (United States)
2023-2025
Georgia Institute of Technology
2018-2023
IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center
2022
University of Indianapolis
2017
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
2017
Rice University
2014
Nearly 40 million workers in the USA, a third of working population, are low-wage, meaning they make less than $11.65 per hour. These face pervasive and detrimental challenge wage violations, also known as theft, which is any illegal activity by an employer that denies benefits or wages to employees. We interviewed 24 low-wage who experienced theft sought justice about their work practices, challenges, information technology usage. Based on these interviews, we identify three key...
As the push for intersection between decolonial and post-colonial perspectives technology design HCI continues to grow, natural challenge of embracing different ways approaching knowledge production without 'othering' begins emerge. In this paper, we offer what call 'decolonial paths', possible portals navigate through challenge. This collective exploration inspires five pathways decoloniality within HCI: understanding, reconsidering, changing, expanding, reflecting. Non-prescriptive...
HCI and CSCW research that uses social media data to make inferences about individuals communities has proliferated in the last decade. Previous studies have elaborated on methodological concerns challenges examined assumptions values underlying knowledge production through quantification data. We expand this line of by making visible explicit conventions practices establish, sustain, reinforce current discourses research. conducted a Critical Discourse Analysis 84 papers published between...
The opacity of machine learning data is a significant threat to ethical work and intelligible systems. Previous research has addressed this issue by proposing standardized checklists document datasets. This paper expands that field inquiry shift perspective: from documenting datasets towards production. We draw on participatory design collaborate with workers at two companies located in Bulgaria Argentina, where the collection annotation for are outsourced. Our investigation comprises 2.5...
In this paper, we examine how activist organizations, focused on human rights violations (HRVs) in Mexico, obtain and translate data to produce actionable insight for social change. Through interviews with 15 participants working think tanks, centers, non-governmental nonprofit identified two key challenges that impact their work: absent conflicting data. We then describe these nonprofits try understand issues by building alliances address specific, detrimental knowledge gaps. Next,...
As the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) increasingly engages with matters social change for Global South, more students from this region — seeking to use HCI impacting their countries - emigrate programs in North. In turn, challenges assumed targeted audience, intentionality, and pedagogical approaches traditional educational structures. Drawing Latin American decolonial thinking, we reflect on our experiences as a graduate education United States. From there, discuss paths...
As spaces for learning about Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) research and practice (e.g., university classes, academic industry labs, conferences) become more diverse, there is a pressing need to revise the universal collaborative pedagogical structures supporting them. Specifically, it has urgent explore how 'de-center' dominant assumptions who learns in these environments. The goal of this workshop collectively craft that resist universality by recognizing valuing other...
Large language models (LLMs) are susceptible to a variety of risks, from non-faithful output biased and toxic generations. Due several limiting factors surrounding LLMs (training cost, API access, data availability, etc.), it may not always be feasible impose direct safety constraints on deployed model. Therefore, an efficient reliable alternative is required. To this end, we present our ongoing efforts create deploy library detectors: compact easy-to-build classification that provide labels...
Over the last 20 years, Latin American Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community has been working to shed light on how diverse populations in region are adopting, using, and making sense of computational technologies. America's tense socio-political context, plurality languages, collectivist culture, historical relationship with Global North make it a unique rich space for HCI research. Considering growing number studies about communities emergent efforts contribute literature, we propose...
This paper examines the practices involved in mobilizing social media data from their site of production to institutional context non-profit organizations. We report on nine months fieldwork with a transnational and intergovernmental organization using understand role grassroots initiatives Mexico, unique COVID-19 pandemic. show how different stakeholders negotiate definition problems be addressed data, collective creation ground-truth, limitations process extracting value data. The meanings...
The increasing integration of AI and data-driven technologies in various sectors society presents both opportunities challenges, particularly regarding ethical, fair, inclusive applications. This one-day workshop aims to convene researchers, practitioners, policymakers, other community members explore the complexities community-driven with aim promote responsible sustainable practices ecosystem. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, participants will engage discussions focused themes...
Social media platforms offer a rich repository of crowdsourced information that has the potential to monitor human rights violations. The challenge is quantify, interpret, and situate such unstructured data streams in broader context, which remains under-investigated existing CSCW research. Addressing these challenges demands computational solutions extract large volumes conjunction with intervention transition into offline context render them usable actionable. Following an iterative...
research-article Lessons from Latin America: embracing horizontality to reconstruct HCI as a pluriverse Share on Authors: Marisol Wong-Villacres Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral LitoralView Profile , Adriana Alvarado Garcia Georgia Institute of Technology TechnologyView Karla Badillo-Urquiola University Central Florida FloridaView Mayra Donaji Barrera Machuca Simon Fraser UniversityView Marianela Ciolfi Felice KTH Royal Laura S. Gaytán-Lugo Universidad de Colima ColimaView Oscar A....
There is an urgent and ongoing need to engage critically with race in human-computer interaction. In this workshop, we consider two intertwining aspects: first, how HCI research practice should race; second, the community itself can become more racially inclusive equitable. The workshop offers a safe space for scholars practitioners discuss their experiences racism impact work life. Insights from critical theory will inform discussion. Workshop participants draft set of guidelines...
We examine the local data practices of citizens in Mexico who use Facebook sites as a platform to report crimes and share safety-related information. conducted 14 interviews with variety participants collaborate administrators contributors these online communities. The communities we examined have two central components: crowd-source about instances crime different neighborhoods around City, crowd-sourced intervene other stakeholders. From our interviews, identify community, data, action...
research-article Keepin' it real about race in HCI Authors: Race Collective View Profile , Angela D. R. Smith [email protected] protected]View Adriana Alvarado Garcia Ian Arawjo Audrey Bennett Khalia Braswell Bryan Dosono Ron Eglash Denae Ford Daniel Gardner Shamika Goddard Jaye Nias Cale Passmore Yolanda Rankin Naba Rizvi Carol F. Scott Jakita Thomas Alexandra To Ihudiya Finda Ogbonnaya-Ogburu Marisol Wong-Villacres Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 28Issue 5September - October 2021...
Over the last years, civic technology projects have emerged around world to advance open government and community action. Although Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) communities shown a growing interest in researching issues technologies, yet most research still focuses on from Global North. The goal of this workshop is, therefore, CSCW by raising awareness for ongoing challenges questions bridging gap between researchers practitioners different regions.
This consolidation of 18 stories from students and researchers human-centered computing (HCC) represent some the diverse shades feminism that are present in our field. These stories, reflect how we see world why, also articulating change wish to bring.
The opacity of machine learning data is a significant threat to ethical work and intelligible systems. Previous research has addressed this issue by proposing standardized checklists document datasets. This paper expands that field inquiry shift perspective: from documenting datasets toward production. We draw on participatory design collaborate with workers at two companies located in Bulgaria Argentina, where the collection annotation for are outsourced. Our investigation comprises 2.5...
In this paper, we describe the design and evaluation of toolkit Bitacora, addressed to practitioners working in non-profit organizations interested integrating Twitter data into their work. The responds call maintain locality by promoting a qualitative contextualized approach analyzing data. We assessed toolkit's effectiveness guiding search, collect, be critical when from Twitter. evaluated with ten three different aims sizes Mexico. assessment surfaced tensions between assumptions embedded...
Over the past decade, community collaborations have come into focus within HCI and CSCW fields. Largely result of increased concern for social contextual dimensions practice, these partnerships facilitate a pathway researchers practitioners to foreground nuances technology as it takes place in real world. How are engaged, what values mediate them, how practices might vary across geographies remain active research questions. In this paper, we contribute by zooming experience four engaging...
Despite growing demand for participatory approaches AI development, there are challenges of ensuring ethical and inclusive stakeholder engagement preventing "participant-washing" perpetuating harm to marginalized communities. To help support AI-developing teams practitioners more ethically responsibly work with communities the public, Partnership on AI's Global Task Force Inclusive proposed specific guidance resources. This one-day workshop brings together researchers co-create...
Connecting with each other on the basis of research interests, geographies or identity has shown to be an important aspect community development within HCI. The advent a variety committees and Special Interest Groups (SIG) are testament this need connecting other. As members nascent SIGCHI LATAM committee, we see opportunity in learning together different communities across HCI field about how working attract more practitioners, academics, students work grow surrounding With SIG, want...
This workshop proposes a space for Latin American academics and activists engaging with data to think critically about the legitimacy power dynamics of knowledge production. Given that most research on data, as well its area application, have focused is informed by Global North, this sets spotlight America places activist academic equal standing. The organisers are an interdisciplinary group scholars activists, women based in North South, across borderlands disciplines, practices,...