Rebecca M Jonas

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RIP Moxie: Lessons for Supporting Emotional Detachment at Product End-of-Life through a Case Study of a Social Companion Robot

Meaningful connections formed between people and robots are a key factor in sustaining long-term interaction. Yet while onboarding experiences for social robot products are often carefully designed to cultivate these bonds, offboarding receives far less attention. This imbalance can result in abrupt disruptions in hum…

CSCW '25CorrespondingDigital Divides, Digital Literacy

"It's like another world": Intra-Rural Digital Divides and Public Libraries as Rural Assets

While rural-urban approaches to digital divide research are common, less attention is paid to intra-rural digital divides occurring within rural areas. Hidden intra-rural digital divides can persist as rural-urban divides close, furthering digital inequity. Through six months of multi-sited ethnography in a rural Appa…

CSCW '251st AuthorGoverning Platforms / Technology's Role in Governance

Staking a Claim in Data: Expertise and Participation in a Rural Open Government Data Initiative

Open government data initiatives have the potential to improve civic participation and trust in government by making government data more transparent to and inclusive of citizens. However, it remains under debate if and how open data initiatives can meet these goals. Through a case study of a state-level government op…

CHI '241st AuthorInclusive Design +1

"We happen to be different and different is not bad": Designing for Intersectional Fat-Positive Information-Seeking

Fat liberation is a social movement advocating for equal treatment of fat people, who are currently subjected to harmful stereotypes, harassment, discrimination at school and work, and medical mistreatment, and is an understudied movement in HCI research. Due to the social and legal acceptability of anti-fatness, many…

CSCW '221st AuthorICTD, Rural Environments, and Immigration; ICTD, Rural Environments, and Immigration

Digital Storytelling for Developing Computer Skills in Rural Appalachia

As we built and deployed a digital storytelling system to teach digital literacy skills to rural Appalachians, we discovered key opportunities and challenges to promoting digital literacy in this region. We identified that the importance of storytelling in Appalachian culture made digital storytelling an effective mea…

CSCW '221st AuthorCommunity-Driven & Value-Sensitive Design; Community-Driven & Value-Sensitive Design

Designing for Shared Values: Exploring Ethical Dilemmas of Conducting Values Inclusive Design Research

Recent prevalence of values-inclusive design research introduces the potential of conducting research with those whose values conflict with researchers' own values. This is the scenario we have found ourselves in as we conduct values-inclusive participatory design to develop and deploy critical digital literacy educat…

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