Deb Roy

schoolMassachusetts Institute of Technologybar_chart#1503 Global Rank

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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…

CHI '26CorrespondingHuman-LLM Collaboration +2

Forage: Understanding LLM-facilitated sensemaking of conversation data

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to make sense of unstructured data, but their use in contexts like conversation analysis, where sensemaking is often human-driven, iterative, and subjective, is underexplored. We introduce Forage, a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) tool for making sense of convers…

IUI '25CorrespondingHuman-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…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 1b: From Hate Speech and Propaganda to Online Public Deliberation

Anonymization of Voices in Spaces for Civic Dialogue: Measuring Impact on Empathy, Trust, and Feeling Heard

Anonymity is a powerful component of many participatory media platforms that can afford people greater freedom of expression and protection from external coercion and interference. However, it can be difficult to effectively implement on platforms that leverage spoken language due to the distinct biomarkers present in…

IUI '24CorrespondingHuman-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…

CHI '21CorrespondingConversational Chatbots +1

Keeper: A Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication Environment Informed by In-Person Facilitation Practices to Ease and Improve Online Conversations

Facilitation, or the craft and use of specific tools, methods, and practices to influence the way groups gather and converse to reach a goal, requires the nuanced craft of a facilitator to guide complex conversations. Online gathering spaces are often designed with neither the facilitator’s knowledge nor the range of…

CHI '21CorrespondingProgramming Education & Computational Thinking +1

Constructing Embodied Algebra by Sketching

Mathematical models and expressions traditionally evolved as symbolic representations, with cognitively arbitrary rules of symbol manipulation. The embodied mathematics philosophy posits that abstract math concepts are layers of metaphors grounded in our intuitive arithmetic capabilities, such as categorizing objects…

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