Austin Toombs

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Understanding Parenting Stress through Co-designed Self-Trackers

New parents often experience significant stress as they take on new roles and responsibilities. Stress management and mental wellbeing are two areas in which personal informatics (PI) research has gained attention, and there is an opportunity to investigate how parenting stress can be mitigated through PI practices. I…

CHI '181st AuthorSocial Platform Design & User Behavior +2

Supporting the Complex Social Lives of New Parents

One of the many challenges of becoming a parent is the shift in one’s social life. As HCI researchers have begun to investigate the intersection of sociotechnical system design and parenthood, they have also sought to understand how parents’ social lives can be best supported. We build on these strands of research thr…

CHI '18CorrespondingMakerspace Culture +1

HCI’s Making Agendas

This survey offers a critical review of making as a topic of HCI research, set into both historical and intellectual contexts. It surveys and critiques two primary HCI research agendas for making: the promise of democratization of technology that making holds forth, and the development of new tools and infrastructures…

CSCW '181st AuthorWorkshop: Sociotechnical Systems of Care

Workshop: Sociotechnical Systems of Care

The goal of this workshop is to bring together CSCW audiences who engage in studies and interventions related to care work. Our aims are to understand how care has been conceptualized in the extant CSCW community, identify core issues and concerns, and formalize how CSCW concepts could be used as a lens to inquire int…

CHI '182nd AuthorElderly Care & Dementia Support

HCIxDementia Workshop: Engaging People Living with Dementia

Increasingly, HCI researchers are recognizing the challenges and opportunities of designing with and for people living with dementia. Recent critiques have highlighted the limited ways people with dementia are engaged in the research and design process. The second CHI HCIxDementia workshop will focus on engagement wit…

CHI '18CorrespondingMental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +2

The Dark (Patterns) Side of UX Design

Interest in critical scholarship that engages with the complexity of user experience (UX) practice is rapidly expanding, yet the vocabulary for describing and assessing criticality in practice is currently lacking. In this paper, we outline and explore the limits of a specific ethical phenomenon known as "dark pattern…

CHI '182nd AuthorElderly Care & Dementia Support

HCIxDementia Workshop: Engaging People Living with Dementia

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