Cassandra Overney

schoolMassachusetts Institute of Technologybar_chart#2561 Global Rank

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Human-AI Narrative Synthesis to Foster Shared Understanding in Civic Decision-Making

Community engagement processes in representative political contexts, like school districts, generate massive volumes of feedback that overwhelm traditional synthesis methods, creating barriers to shared understanding not only between civic leaders and constituents but also among community members. To address these bar…

CHI '262nd AuthorCommunity Engagement & Civic Technology +2

The Impacts of Transparency and Personalization on Feelings of Agency and Connection in Democratic Decision Making

Community engagement processes often shape policies that affect people’s daily lives, yet they frequently struggle to build transparency, understanding, and agency. Civic technologies aim to address this gap by making connections between voices and decisions visible, but rarely evaluate impact on democratic participan…

CSCW '251st AuthorCommunity Engaged Research

BoundarEase: Fostering Constructive Community Engagement to Inform More Equitable Student Assignment Policies

Public school districts across the United States (US) play a pivotal role in shaping access to quality education through their student assignment policies---most prominently, school attendance boundaries. Community engagement processes for changing such policies, however, are often opaque, cumbersome, and highly pola…

IUI '251st AuthorHuman-LLM Collaboration +2

Coalesce: An Accessible Mixed-Initiative System for Designing Community-Centric Questionnaires

Effectively incorporating community input into civic decision-making processes is crucial for fostering inclusive governance. However, public officials often face challenges in formulating effective questions to gather meaningful insights due to constraints such as time, resources, and limited experience in questionna…

IUI '241st AuthorHuman-LLM Collaboration +2

SenseMate: An Accessible and Beginner-Friendly Human-AI Platform for Qualitative Data Analysis

Community organizations face challenges in harnessing the power of qualitative data analysis, or sensemaking, to understand the diverse perspectives and needs brought up by their constituents. One of the most time-consuming and tedious parts of sensemaking is qualitative coding, or the process of identifying themes ac…

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