Midas Nouwens

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Moderating the Workplace: Governing Communication Channels for Platform Workers

Platform workers often experience isolation in their work. They use online forums to connect, but their moderation remains underexplored. Article 20 of the EU Platform Work Directive requires digital labour platforms to provide workers with a “communication channel” and leaves interpretation for how to design it up to…

CHI '251st AuthorAlgorithmic Transparency & Auditability +2

A Cross-Country Analysis of GDPR Cookie Banners and Flexible Methods for Scraping Them

Online tracking remains problematic, with compliance and ethical issues persisting despite regulatory efforts. Consent interfaces, the visible manifestation of this industry, have seen significant attention over the years. We present robust automated methods to study the presence, design, and third-party suppliers of…

CSCW '22CorrespondingGig Economy; Gig Economy

Platform-mediated Food Delivery Work: A Review for CSCW

This paper presents the practice of platform-based food delivery as a meal well served for scholars within CSCW based on a review of extant literature on the practice. CSCW holds a valuable set of notions and tools for future granular inquiry into the work practice on food delivery platforms and pertinent questions fr…

CSCW '225th+ AuthorBest PaperTeam Collaboration; Team Collaboration

Collectives and Their Artifact Ecologies

Computing today happens across multiple devices, applications, users, organizational units, and in the rest of the world outside. Groups and communities come together for different reasons and operate within contexts that may differ from dominant modes of production and consumption. With a foundation in activity theor…

CHI '222nd AuthorHonorable MentionPrivacy by Design & User Control +2

Caught in the Network: The Impact of WhatsApp's 2021 Privacy Policy Update on Users' Messaging App Ecosystems

In January 2021, WhatsApp announced an update to their privacy policy, sparking an outcry that saw millions of users install other messaging apps such as Telegram and Signal. This presented a rare opportunity to study users’ experiences when trying to leave the world’s most popular communication app. We conducted surv…

CHI '212nd AuthorCustomizable & Personalized Objects +1

How Digital Tools Impact Convergent and Divergent Thinking in Design Ideation

Digital tools that support creative activities are ubiquitous in the design industry, yet practitioners appear to prefer pen and paper for design ideation. To better understand this exception, we conducted a comparative study between analog and digital tools and their impact on the divergent and convergent thinking pa…

CHI '201st AuthorInteractive Data Visualization +1

Between Scripts and Applications: Computational Media for the Frontier of Nanoscience

The popularity of computational notebooks heralds a return of software as computational media rather than turn-key applications. We believe this software model has potential beyond supporting just the computationally literate. We studied a biomolecular nano-design lab that works on a current frontier of science – RNA…

CHI '201st AuthorAI Ethics, Fairness & Accountability +2

Dark Patterns after the GDPR: Scraping Consent Pop-ups and Demonstrating their Influence

New consent management platforms (CMPs) have been introduced to the web to conform with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, particularly its requirements for consent when companies collect and process users' personal data. This work analyses how the most prevalent CMP designs affect people's consent choices.…

CHI '192nd AuthorSocial Platform Design & User Behavior +2

Augmenting Couples' Communication with Lifelines: Shared Timelines of Mixed Contextual Information

Couples exhibit special communication practices, but apps rarely offer couple-specific functionality. Research shows that sharing streams of contextual information (e.g. location, motion) helps couples coordinate and feel more connected. Most studies explored a single, ephemeral stream; we study how couples' communica…

CHI '181st AuthorKnowledge Worker Tools & Workflows +1

The Application and Its Consequences for Non-Standard Knowledge Work

Application-centric computing dominates human-computer interactions, yet the concept of an application is ambiguous and the impact of its ubiquity underexplored. We unpack "the application" through the lens of non-standard knowledge work: freelance, self-employed, and fixed-term contract workers who create knowledge i…

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