Jed R. Brubaker

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Crafting Remembrance Beyond the Self: Older Adults’ Digital and Material Legacies

Artifacts encode memories and shape how one is remembered after death. Older adults, given their life stage, are often engaged in intentional end-of-life planning, making their perspectives on curation for remembrance post-mortem valuable. While HCI has examined older adults' curation of memory artifacts (e.g., to sup…

CSCW '25CorrespondingPalliative Care

Navigating Value Elicitation: Insights from Palliative Care Providers

Healthcare providers play a crucial role in developing care plans for patients at the end of their lives. As value elicitation becomes increasingly integrated into advance care planning, digital tools have been proposed to support providers. However, the development of these tools has primarily focused on facilitating…

DIS '252nd AuthorUniversal & Inclusive Design +2

"That's something that as a senior person you have to consider now": Unpacking Older Adults' Preferences for End-of-Life Data Planning

What happens to a person’s data after they pass away? Designing for digital legacy requires input from individuals across all life stages, as motivations to plan vary with age. Yet, the specific perspectives that older adults have on end-of-life data management have not been investigated in depth. Through interviews w…

CHI '25CorrespondingGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +2

Generative Ghosts: Anticipating Benefits and Risks of AI Afterlives

As AI systems quickly improve in both breadth and depth of performance, they lend themselves to creating increasingly powerful and realistic agents, including the possibility of agents modeled on specific people. We anticipate that within our lifetimes it may become common practice for people to create custom AI agent…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 3b: Bridging Technology and Therapy

“I hate you. I love you. I’m sorry. I miss you.” Understanding Online Grief Expression Through Suicide Bereavement Letter-Writing Practices

When bereaved individuals seek online support in response to the suicide of a loved one, their expressions of grief take many forms. Although the intense grief expressions individuals bereaved by suicide commonly share in private therapeutic settings can be helpful in healing from traumatic loss, these same expression…

CSCW '243rd AuthorSession 2g: Identity, Visibility and Care in Online Spaces

Algorithmic Subjectivities

This article considers how subjectivities are enlivened in algorithmic systems. We first review related literature to clarify how we see “subjectivities” as emerging through a tangled web of processes and actors. We then offer two case studies exemplifying the emergence of algorithmic subjectivities: one involving com…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 3a: Self-Presentation and Relationships in Digital Spaces

Safety and Community Context: Exploring a Transfeminist Approach to Sapphic Relationship Platforms

Relationship platforms (e.g., dating apps) are crucial tools for sapphics (trans women, cis women, and nonbinary people who are attracted to other sapphics). However, current platforms are not designed in a way that accounts for sapphic lived experience, especially the lived experience of sapphics who hold multiple ma…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 3a: Self-Presentation and Relationships in Digital Spaces

I’m working on erasing you, just don’t have the proper tools: Supporting online identity management after the end of romantic relationships

After a break-up, people are left with data that is representative of their lost relationship � pictures, posts, and connections that exist because of that relationship. As part of breaking up and moving on, people often make decisions about managing that data. Prior work has identified two broad types of curatorial p…

CSCW '23CorrespondingState of the Field

Digital Legacy: A Systematic Literature Review

To better support the dying and bereaved in end-of-life contexts, over the past two decades HCI and social computing scholars have sought to understand digital legacy. In this paper, we argue that it is time to take stock of digital legacy scholarship, examining what we know, what gaps remain, and what areas are imper…

CSCW '23CorrespondingHonorable MentionWikipedia

Queer Identities, Normative Databases: Challenges to Capturing Queerness On Wikidata

The collection, organization, and retrieval of data about queer individuals and their identities challenge the creators and curators of highly structured database systems. While prior research in archival studies and demographics has examined processes of collecting and storing queer identities, they do not examine th…

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