Steven Jackson

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Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya

Credit scoring is an increasingly central and contested domain of data and AI governance, frequently framed as a neutral and objective method of assessing risk across diverse economic and political contexts. Based on a nine-month ethnography of credit scoring practices in Nairobi, Kenya, we examined the sociotechnical…

CHI '26CorrespondingShape-Changing Interfaces & Soft Robotic Materials +2

Convivial Fabrication: Towards Relational Computational Tools For and From Craft Practices

Computational tools for fabrication often treat materials as passive rather than active participants in design, abstracting away relationships between craftspeople and materials. For craft communities that value relational practices, abstractions limit the adoption and creative uptake of computational tools which migh…

CSCW '23CorrespondingCSCW Contexts

(Re)collecting Craft: Reviving Materials, Techniques, and Pedagogies of Craft for Computational Makers

This paper examines craft’s foundational relations to materials, techniques, and collaborative modes of teaching and learning, and these can be called upon to strengthen and extend computational craft as practiced in fields like CSCW and HCI. Drawing from literature in HCI, craft studies and Science and Technology Stu…

CSCW '23CorrespondingHonorable MentionMethods

Reopening, Repetition and Resetting: HCI and the Method of Hope

This paper attempts to (re)theorize the nature and role of hope in collaborative and interventionist CSCW and HCI projects. Drawing on work in anthropology, STS, CSCW and HCI, and extended reflection on the 3Dprintability project (a multinational collaboration dedicated to the 3D printing of prosthetics in sub-Sahara…

CHI '233rd AuthorTechnology Ethics & Critical HCI

Unmaking as Emancipation: Lessons and Reflections from Luddism

Emancipation is fundamentally a work of unmaking, as it entails undermining, dissolving, and undoing oppressive structures. This paper offers an account of a frequently misunderstood unmaking movement, Luddism. The Luddites were a loosely organized collective of nineteenth century English textile makers who destroyed…

CHI '222nd AuthorGame Accessibility +1

The Electronicists: Building Techno-aesthetic Practice for Supporting Nonlinear Practitioners in HCI

This paper offers a theoretical and methodological framework of ‘techno-aesthetic encounters’ that supports nonlinear (situated, materially-driven, and multi-sensory) and art-based modes of in-quiry in HCI and the broader STEM fields. We first investigate recent literatures in HCI and science and technology studies (S…

CHI '222nd AuthorBest PaperGender & Race Issues in HCI +1

Interrupting Merit, Subverting Legibility: Navigating Caste In ‘Casteless’ Worlds of Computing

Recent work in HCI has shed light on structural issues of inequality in computing. Building on this work, this study analyzes the relatively understudied phenomenon of caste in computing. Contrary to common rhetorics of ‘castelessness,’ we show how computing worlds in India and Indian diasporic communities continue to…

CSCW '213rd AuthorCivic Engagement, Politics, and Polarization

Networked Authoritarianism at the Edge: The Digital and Political Transitions of Cambodian Village Officials

This paper describes how village-level officials, relatively new to the Internet, use popular digital platforms on smartphones to supplement and extend long-standing patterns of information control and authoritarian power in rural Cambodia. They use these tools to monitor local affairs, report to the central governme…

CSCW '21CorrespondingMethods and Design Approaches

Tech-Art-Theory: Improvisational Methods for HCI Learning and Teaching

This paper explores the nature and potential of improvisation as a method for learning and teaching in CSCW and HCI. It starts by reviewing concepts of improvisational learning in classic and more recent work in educational theory, art and music, and HCI that emphasize the reconstructive, materially-driven, error-enga…

CSCW '21CorrespondingBest PaperInfrastructures

Seeing Like an Infrastructure: Low-resolution Citizens and the Aadhaar Identification Project

Large-scale data systems play an increasingly central role in how state bureaucracies and citizens come to know and navigate their relationship with each other. Such systems are endemically uneven in implementation, producing distributed and exclusionary consequences that are among their most important effects. These…

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