Alex Jiahong Lu

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Eliciting Alternative Economic Futures with Working-Class Detroiters: Centering Afrofuturism in Speculative Design

Economic crises, such as the global recession and financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 and the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, have elevated new forms of economic cooperation. Supporting efforts in finding alternatives to capitalism requires understanding the role of design in imagining alternative economic futu…

DIS '231st AuthorBest PaperCommunity Engagement & Civic Technology +2

Participatory Noticing through Photovoice: Engaging Arts- and Community-Based Approaches in Design Research

Noticing differently commits to stepping out of familiar reference frameworks while attending to oft-neglected actors, relations, and ways of knowing for design. Photovoice is an arts- and community-based participatory approach allowing individuals to communicate their lives and stories about pressing community concer…

CSCW '221st AuthorPandemic Life; Pandemic Life

Emotional Labor in Everyday Resilience: Class-Based Experiences of Navigating Unemployment Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in the U.S.

During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global health crisis, institutions, policymakers, and academics alike have called for practicing resilience to overcome its ongoing disruptions. This paper contributes a comparative study of the job search experiences of working-class and upper-middle-class job seekers, p…

CHI '22CorrespondingCommunity Engagement & Civic Technology +1

Making Space for Cultural Infrastructure: The Breakdown and Maintenance Work of Independent Movie Theaters During Crisis

Independent movie theaters (IMTs) are a part of the cultural infrastructure that offers shared spaces for patron communities to access, share, and engage with cultural artifacts. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, IMTs were mandated to shut down, resulting in unanticipated infrastructural breakdown. Drawing insights f…

CSCW '211st AuthorData Work Across Contexts and Disciplines

Data Work in Education: Enacting and Negotiating Care and Control in Teachers' Use of Data-Driven Classroom Surveillance Technology

Today, teachers have been increasingly relying on data-driven technologies to track and monitor student behavior data for classroom management. Drawing insights from interviews with 20 K-8 teachers, this paper unpacks how teachers enacted both care and control through their data work in collecting, interpreting, and u…

DIS '212nd AuthorJob Search & Employment Support +1

Elucidating Skills for Job Seekers: Insights and Critical Concerns from a Field Deployment in Switzerland

This article contributes results of a longitudinal field study of SkillsIdentifier, an employment tool originally designed and assessed in the United States (U.S.), to support "underrepresented" job seekers in identifying and articulating their employment skills. To understand whether the tool could support the needs…

DIS '211st AuthorCognitive Impairment & Neurodiversity (Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia) +1

Coding Bias in the Use of Behavior Management Technologies: Uncovering Socio-technical Consequences of Data-driven Surveillance in Classrooms

Digital educational technologies have been employed in classrooms to collect students' behavioral data in the hope of supporting teachers in identifying and correcting undesirable behaviors, which raises the concern of heightened surveillance in classrooms. We present a qualitative study of 20 K-8 teachers to understa…

CHI '213rd AuthorJob Search & Employment Support +1

Examining the Use Online Platforms for Employment: A Survey of U.S. Job Seekers

Online employment resources are now as important as offline personal and professional networks, which have been pivotal in finding employment. However, it is unclear, which specific online resources are key to employment and how job seekers take advantage of them. Therefore, in an online survey of 768 job seekers, we…

CHI '211st AuthorSTEM Education & Science Communication +2

Uncovering the Promises and Challenges of Social Media Use in the Low-Wage Labor Market: Insights from Employers

Social media has become an effective recruitment tool for higher-waged and white-collar professionals. Yet, past studies have questioned its effectiveness for the recruitment of lower-waged workers. It is also unclear whether or how employers leverage social media in their recruitment of low-wage job seekers, and how…

CSCW '201st AuthorCivic Engagement and Politics

"Learning for the Rise of China": Exploring Uses and Gratifications of State-Owned Online Platform

On January 1, 2019, the Chinese government launched the online platform XueXi QiangGuo, which translates into "Learning for the Rise of China." Within two months, XueXi became the top-downloaded item of the month on Apple's App Store in China. In response, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 28 active XueXi u…

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