Cindy Kaiying Lin

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Localized Imaginaries, Global Assets: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Assetization of Data Centers in Singapore

As data infrastructures expand globally, the environmental and spatial imaginaries guiding data center development have become standardized, privileging temperate climates, abundant land, and low-cost energy. Singapore presents a paradox: a tropical, land-scarce city-state that nonetheless ranks among the densest data…

CHI '263rd AuthorTechnology Ethics & Critical HCI +2

Whose Time Counts? Temporal Arrangements in Sociotechnical Infrastructures

This paper examines how infrastructures organize time in ways that unevenly distribute burden, access, and opportunity across communities. We draw on two ethnographic cases: eviction case filings in Atlanta, part of the state’s legal and housing governance infrastructure, and a sexual healthcare intervention in Chicag…

CHI '26CorrespondingCommunity Engagement & Civic Technology +2

Everyday Design with Surrounds: Rehearsing Alternatives Amid Urban Sociotechnical Changes

This paper rethinks everyday design by shifting from materially available, physical ``surroundings'' as design resources to the unsettled, open-ended, and politically entangled ``surrounds'' as sites of practice. Drawing from ethnographies in New York City and Detroit, we describe how urban communities rehearse altern…

CSCW '252nd AuthorTrauma & Abuse

Making Sense of Trauma Over Time: Interweaving Feminist Temporalities to Understand Histories

Trauma, an emotional response to events with lasting impacts, is a significant public health issue influencing technology interactions. This paper focuses on the sixth principle of trauma-informed care—Cultural, Historical, and Gender Issues—by exploring multiple timescales of trauma and generational impacts through t…

CSCW '231st AuthorCollaboration II

From Bias to Repair: Error as a Site of Collaboration and Negotiation in Applied Data Science Work

The management of error has become an increasingly central and contested question in data science work. While much recent scholarship in artificial intelligence and machine learning has focused on limiting and eliminating error, practitioners have also long used error as a site of collaboration and learning vis-à-vis…

CHI '211st AuthorGender & Race Issues in HCI +1

Techniques of Use: Confronting Value Systems of Productivity, Progress, and Usefulness in Computing and Design

This paper turns to one of HCI’s central value systems, i.e. its commitments to usefulness and the ideal that technology enables social progress, productivity, and excellence. Specifically, we examine how the seemingly “positive” ideal to make technology “useful” – i.e. to build systems and devices that advance social…

CHI '183rd AuthorMakerspace Culture +1

HCI’s Making Agendas

This survey offers a critical review of making as a topic of HCI research, set into both historical and intellectual contexts. It surveys and critiques two primary HCI research agendas for making: the promise of democratization of technology that making holds forth, and the development of new tools and infrastructures…

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