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CHI '26Design Fiction +4

Envisioning Future Food, Technology, and Health: Teens’ Perspectives Through Design Fiction

Teenage years are a critical period for shaping food practices and health behaviors, yet teens remain underrepresented in research on future food and health technologies. This paper reports on design fiction workshops where 20 teens speculated on artifacts such as health-tracking mirrors and food-making machines while…

CHI '26Social Platform Design & User Behavior +2

“To be that one other brick in the pillar”: Online Communities, Platforms, and Collective Action in the BTS Industrial Complex

Social media platforms have become integral to everyday life and serve as the foundation for online communities. These platforms not only enable communication but also shape the ways in which online communities are formed and maintained. In this paper, we examine an online community, the BTS fandom ARMY, using Durkhei…

CHI '26Social Robot Interaction +2

RIP Moxie: Lessons for Supporting Emotional Detachment at Product End-of-Life through a Case Study of a Social Companion Robot

Meaningful connections formed between people and robots are a key factor in sustaining long-term interaction. Yet while onboarding experiences for social robot products are often carefully designed to cultivate these bonds, offboarding receives far less attention. This imbalance can result in abrupt disruptions in hum…

CHI '26Serious & Functional Games +3

"I have a plan to start": Empowering Awareness and Behavior Change through a Collaborative Flood Resilience Game

Games empowering active engagement in real-world climate adaptation measures are underexplored. Yet, bottom-up engagement is crucial for addressing natural hazard impacts at the community and individual levels. Our work employed an iterative research for and through co-design approach to develop a locally adapted tabl…

CSCW '24Session 1f: Dynamics of Group Formation and Interaction in Digital Spaces

Forming shared interest pods: barriers to self-assembly of interest-based small groups, and dynamics of maintaining and giving up control to find collective fit

We explore the challenges individuals face when seeking like-minded partners to pursue shared interests in small groups, specifically outside the workplace, classroom, or other externally organized contexts. Conducting nine 90-minute semi-structured interviews involving a hypothetical small group formation process, we…

CSCW '24Session 3d: Teens in the Digital Age: Safety, Creativity, and Well-Being

From Viral Content to Real-Life Cuisine and Beyond: Examining Teenagers’ Interactions with TikTok Food Videos and the Influence on Their Food Practices

TikTok has gained immense popularity among teenagers, offering access to numerous user-generated content. Notably, food videos have emerged as a prominent theme on this short-form video social platform, exerting influence on teenage users. The casual and enjoyable nature of short food videos on TikTok belies their pot…

UBICOMP '24Ubiquitous Computing +1

Soil-Powered Computing: The Engineer's Guide to Practical Soil Microbial Fuel Cell Design

Yen 等人提供土壤微生物燃料电池的系统设计指南，涵盖材料选择、结构优化与性能提升，服务于土壤供能计算应用。

DIS '23Honorable MentionGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +2

Creating Design Resources to Scaffold the Ideation of AI Concepts

Advances in artificial intelligence have enabled unprecedented technical capabilities, yet making these advances useful in the real world remains challenging. We engaged in a Research through Design process to improve the ideation of AI products and services. We developed a design resource capturing AI capabilities ba…

CSCW '21Sustainable Infrastructures for Rural and Local Computing

Jarvis in Motion: A Research Artifact for Circulating Lifestyle Values in Public

We report on a research through design study of how our everyday objects, augmented with technologies, could contribute to disseminating people's lifestyle values in public. We developed Jarvis, a hybrid object of a glass jar and a location-tracking system that allowed us to examine how Jarvis stimulated making lifest…

CSCW '21Reflections on Tech and CSCW

Critical Affects: Tech Work Emotions Amidst the Techlash

Techlash encapsulates a breaking point reached with the critique of technology companies. To investigate how this whirlwind of rage, inquiry, and accountability affects the lives of tech workers, we conducted interviews with 19 tech workers. Our methodological approach adopts a style of writing and analysis associated…

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