Samantha Shorey

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Patchwork: The Hidden, Human Labor of AI Integration within Essential Work

This paper examines the rapid introduction of AI and automation technologies within essential industries amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on participant observation and interviews within two sites of waste labor in the United States, we consider the substantial effort performed by frontline workers who smooth the r…

DIS '213rd AuthorAI Ethics, Fairness & Accountability +2

Discard(ed) Labor: Countervisualities for Representing AI Integration in Essential Work

This pictorial critically explores the role of visual media representations in the deployment of automated and artificially intelligent (AI) technologies within essential work sectors. We draw on an exhaustive review of local and national newspaper articles about automation in two waste labor industries (cleaning and…

DIS '202nd AuthorEmpowerment of Marginalized Groups +2

Crafting Everyday Resistance through Lightweight Design

This pictorial examines the relationship between inquiry and activism within academic settings through the design of protest artifacts. Inspired by lineages of feminist print production, we illustrate our own process of creating simple acts of resistance through electronic posters and buttons. Naming these interventio…

CHI '182nd AuthorBest PaperGender & Race Issues in HCI +2

Making Core Memory: Design Inquiry into Gendered Legacies of Engineering and Craftwork

This paper describes the Making Core Memory project, a design inquiry into the invisible work that went into assem-bling core memory, an early form of computer information storage initially woven by hand. Drawing on feminist tradi-tions of situated knowing, we designed an electronic quilt and a series of participatory…

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