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Data Literacies in Informal Settings
As data becomes an integral part of our daily lives, the general public increasingly needs to actively engage with it to understand everyday lives, support personal goals, and engage with social issues. Formal data science ... -
Exploring How the Exercise of Power Contributes to Creating More Inclusive Spaces in Engineering Education
Engineering Education in the United States has been trying to address its problem with underrepresentation of minoritized student groups for decades. In recent years, the engineering community has shifted its focus from ... -
Technology Support for Online Science Communication
As researchers, we have an obligation to share our scholarship and act as advocates for scientific knowledge. Participatory platforms like social media have become an important way for researchers to connect with the public, ... -
Designing for ‘Seeing Across Projects’ Based Learning
Design thinking is an important skill in engineering practice, but it is difficult to teach and learn. The primary means of teaching design is by engaging students in project-based design experiences. In addition to ... -
Learning from and Designing for Digitally-Mediated Aspects of the Transition to Adulthood out of the Foster Care System
While historically overlooked in the HCI community, the difficult transition to adulthood that many individuals experience when exiting the US child welfare system has often been the focus of traditional social work research. ... -
Transforming Queer Health Technologies Through Community-Based Systems Design
Technologists are often motivated to do good in the world, laying out grand visions for how to optimize systems, automate tedious tasks, and expand what is possible. However, these innovations can create or exacerbate ... -
Measuring Distributed Mentoring in an Online Fanfiction Community
This dissertation approaches questions about how creators informally learn from their online networks using a human-centered data science perspective. Over the past few decades, participation in online communities has ... -
Design and Implementation of Conversational User Interfaces for Health
Conversational user interfaces (CUIs) have the potential to support users across varied health domain areas. Yet barriers remain to the implementation and adoption of CUIs, such as lack of trustworthiness and consideration ... -
Designing to Support Sense of Agency for Time Spent on Digital Interfaces
App designers often exploit psychological vulnerabilities to maximize clicks, views, and time on site. When people attempt to resist such media use, their failure rate is higher than for any other temptation in everyday ... -
Personal Data and Team Dynamics: Tracking Technology in U.S. College Sports
My dissertation focuses on coordination around personal data and human-data interaction in a high-stakes, high-performance environment: college sports. In the last decade, wearable tracking technologies—e.g., FitBit, Garmin, ... -
Salmon on the run: Practicing scale in the study of wild Alaska salmon
Modern scientific research infrastructure has eclipsed the importance of scaling when understanding ecosystem change. Scale is the lens through which scientists parse complexity. Although scale is central to scientific ... -
Noticing and Enacting Equity Across Design Sites of Knowledge
Our commitments influence the narratives we center, the technologies we design, and the knowledge we create. Yet, little scholarship exists that documents the lived experience of enacting our commitments in practice. I ... -
Community Safety Together: How Reflection and Radical Imagination Can Help Us Build the Worlds We Need
In this dissertation, I explore human-centered design approaches to support community-driven projects that aim to reinforce self-determination and grow networks of support and care. The context in which I approach this ... -
Comparing Language Communities: Characterizing Collaboration in the English, French and Spanish Language Editions of Wikipedia
Is Wikipedia a standardized platform with a common model of collaboration or is it a set of 312 active language editions with distinct collaborative models? In the last 20 years, researchers have extensively analyzed the ... -
Understanding and Designing Health Technologies with Older Adults
The population of people 60 years and older has been rapidly rising and will continue to grow. This growth has prompted a turn toward innovations to support age-related decline. While these innovations are necessary, the ... -
Understanding the Structure and Dynamics of Multi-platform Information Operations
Information operations—efforts to distort the information ecosystem through methods such as the dissemination of disinformation in efforts to influence opinions or actions of individuals, governments or publics—are ... -
Designing Engaging Conversational Interactions for Health & Behavior Change
The recent popularity of chat and voice-based conversational interactions fueled by advances in natural language processing (NLP) has opened up opportunities for re-imagining user interactions in health & behavior change ... -
Troubling Matters: Examining the Spread of Misinformation and Disinformation on Social Media During Mass Disruption Events
Most users want Twitter feeds, Facebook pages, and other information streams to be free of misleading content. Whether this misleading content was spread unintentionally (misinformation) or on purpose (disinformation), ... -
Designing Guided Asynchronous Remote Communities to Support Teen Mental Health
The majority of teens experience challenges with stress and depression in the United States. However, they lack the resources to access traditional face-to-face mental health care and participate in Human Computer Interaction ... -
Practitioners’ Views on Cultural Adaptation of Web-based Products
Researchers have repeatedly found cross-cultural differences in how people behave, perceive, and interact with information. However, it is unclear how these findings translate into cultural adaptations in global products ...