Alex Lu

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Shifting from Surveillance-as-Safety to Safety-through-Noticing: A Photovoice Study with Eastside Detroit Residents

Safety has been used to justify the expansion of today's large-scale surveillance infrastructures in American cities. Our work offers empirical and theoretical groundings on why and how the safety-surveillance conflation that reproduces harm toward communities of color must be denaturalized. In a photovoice study cond…

CHI '222nd AuthorHonorable MentionCommunity Engagement & Civic Technology +1

The Village: Infrastructuring Community-based Mentoring to Support Adults Experiencing Poverty

Mentorship and other social and relational support have been vital to poverty alleviation and transformative change. It is crucial to understand the underlying factors in the success of mentoring models and subsequent programs to support them. Thus, we conducted a mixed methods study consisting of longitudinal surveys…

CHI '19CorrespondingUniversal & Inclusive Design +2

DreamGigs: Designing a Tool to Empower Low-Resource Job Seekers

Technology allows us to scale the number of jobs we search for and apply to, train for work, and earn money online. However, these technologies do not benefit all job seekers equally and must be designed to better support the needs of underserved job seekers. Research suggests that underserved job seekers prefer emplo…

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