Yasmine Kotturi

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Understanding the Challenges of Maker Entrepreneurship

The maker movement embodies a resurgence in DIY creation, merging physical craftsmanship and arts with digital technology support. However, mere technological skills and creativity are insufficient for economically and psychologically sustainable practice. By illuminating and smoothing the path from "maker" to "maker…

CSCW '241st AuthorSession 3b: Work, Non-Work, and Social Technologies

Peerdea: Co-Designing a Peer Support System with Creative Entrepreneurs

Creative entrepreneurs join makerspaces to build relationships with vetted and trustful peers over time. Yet, as makerspaces increasingly use social technologies to connect members online, such technological adoption is often incongruent with the unique needs of creative entrepreneurs such as safeguarding their reputa…

CSCW '241st AuthorSession 3b: Building Resilient Communities

Sustaining Community-Based Research in Computing: Lessons from Two Tech Capacity Building Initiatives for Local Businesses

The field of human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on the design of information technology artifacts. However, such artifacts have often hindered the populations they aim to support due to the lack of sustainable considerations for tech maintenance and repair over the long term. Drawing on two mul…

DIS '243rd AuthorAging-in-Place Assistance Systems +1

"This really let's us see the entire world:" Designing a conversational telepresence robot for homebound older adults

In this paper, we explore the design and use of conversational telepresence robots to help homebound older adults interact with the external world. An initial needfinding study (N=8) using video vignettes revealed older adults' experiential needs for robot-mediated remote experiences such as exploration, reminiscence…

CHI '241st AuthorGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +1

Deconstructing the Veneer of Simplicity: Co-Designing Introductory Generative AI Workshops with Local Entrepreneurs

Generative AI platforms and features are permeating many aspects of work. Entrepreneurs from lean economies in particular are well positioned to outsource tasks to generative AI given limited resources. In this paper, we work to address a growing disparity in use of these technologies by building on a four-year partne…

CHI '221st AuthorVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille) +1

Tech Help Desk: Support for Local Entrepreneurs Addressing the Long Tail of Computing Challenges

Even entrepreneurs whose businesses are not technological (e.g., handmade goods) need to be able to use a wide range of computing technologies in order to achieve their business goals. In this paper, we follow a participatory action research approach and collaborate with various stakeholders at an entrepreneurial co-w…

CSCW '211st AuthorSocial Media

The Unique Challenges for Creative Small Businesses Seeking Feedback on Social Media

Social media can be an especially effective source of feedback on open-ended work, such as product design. Unlike large businesses with entire teams dedicated to “social”, there is little understanding of how small business owners constrained both in personnel and resources can leverage the benefits of direct, informa…

CSCW '202nd AuthorWork: Companies, P2P, and Freelancing

Making it Work, or not: A Longitudinal Study of Career Trajectories Among Online Freelancers

Online freelancing is growing rapidly. Yet despite this rapid growth, we have a limited understanding of online freelancers' long-term experiences and evolution or how online freelancing influences their broader career goals. To address this gap, we interviewed a set of online freelancers at two time periods, two and…

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