Ashley Boone

schoolGeorgia Institute of Technologybar_chart#1289 Global Rank

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Civic Data at the Seams

As civic data typically involves multiple stakeholders and institutions, data work often happens across seamful spaces. We use seams as an analytical lens to examine data production in a civic data project mapping extreme heat islands to promote environmental and climate justice. Our analysis calls attention to the wo…

CSCW '251st AuthorAdvocacy Work

Charismatic Data and Material Traces: Monitoring Bird-Building Collisions through Citizen Science

Bird collisions with man-made structures pose a significant threat to bird populations. In [Southern City], a small group of dedicated volunteers track these deaths with hopes of advocating for local policy requiring the use of bird-safe building materials. In addition to recording observations in a mobile application…

DIS '251st AuthorCommunity Engagement & Civic Technology +2

Designing Tools for Data Advocacy

Local governments, nonprofits, and community-based organizations are increasingly producing data, but there remains a gap between producing data and using it to advocate for local change. In this Research through Design (RtD) engagement, we partner with a local nonprofit to build tools that support the work of data ad…

CSCW '241st AuthorSession 1e: Empowering Data Work

Reimagining Meaningful Data Work through Citizen Science

Data work is often completed by crowdworkers, who are routinely dehumanized, disempowered, and sidelined. We turn to citizen science to reimagine data work, highlighting collaborative relationships between citizen science project managers and volunteers. Though citizen science and traditional crowd work entail similar…

DIS '241st AuthorDeveloping Countries & HCI for Development (HCI4D) +2

Embodied Traces: Multispecies Entanglement in Urban Spaces

Collisions with man-made structures such as buildings, vehicles, and energy infrastructure are a significant threat to bird populations. Throughout the U.S., groups of volunteers monitor bird-building collisions to better understand the environmental impact of collisions and to advocate for the use of bird-safe buildi…

CHI '243rd AuthorInclusive Design +2

Social Justice in HCI: A Systematic Literature Review

Given the renewed attention on politics, values, and ethics within our field and the wider cultural milieu, now is the time to take stock of social justice research in HCI. We surveyed 124 papers explicitly pursuing social justice between 2009 and 2022 to better reflect on the current state of justice-oriented work wi…

CHI '231st AuthorCitizen Science & Crowdsourced Data +2

Data Practice for a Politics of Care: Food Assistance as a Site of Careful Data Work

As data plays an increasing role in civic decision making, diverse organizations are facing pressure to engage in data work. The HCI community has explored both the potential of and challenges to integrating robust data practices in mission-driven organizations. At each step – from collection, to storage, to analysis,…

CSCW '222nd AuthorData Work; Data Work

Careful Data Tinkering

In this paper, we describe and analyze the data practices of an activist non-profit, the Housing Justice League. We focus on their Tenant Power Hotline, a community outreach tool for tenants facing eviction and seeking organizing support. This research contributes to existing scholarship that examines data practices a…

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