Wellesley College

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Beyond Riding: Passenger Engagement with Driver Labor through Gamified Interactions

Modern cities across the globe increasingly rely on ridehail services for on-demand transportation and mobility. But for drivers, such marketed affordances give rise to hidden burdens and vulnerabilities that evade the oversight of consumers and regulators. To effectively advance worker protections and motivate more s…

CHI '26Behavior Change & Reflection Technology +2

Breaking Negative Cycles: A Reflection-to-Action System for Adaptive Change

Breaking negative mental health cycles, including rumination and recurring regrets, requires reflection that translates awareness into behavioral change. Grounded in the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) and Gross’s Emotion Regulation (ER) Process Model, we examine how Technologies Supporting Self-Reflection (TSR) bridge r…

CHI '26AI-Assisted Decision-Making & Automation +2

Balancing Automation and Discretion: How Decision Stakes and Human-AI Collaboration Affect Citizen Perceptions in Public Administration

The growing use of AI in public administration improves efficiency, yet its use in discretionary decisions raises concerns about fairness and legitimacy. While prior research examined decision stakes and Human–AI decision-making configurations separately, their combined effect on citizens’ perceptions of fairness and…

CHI '26Social Robot Interaction +3

Bridging Technology and Policy Design: A Robot Policy Design Toolkit to Support Collaborations in Policymaking

Advancements in artificial intelligence are challenging current policy frameworks. Both the human-computer interaction (HCI) community and policymakers note that technologies are designed better when they take into account the impact on society, and that policies are more effective when they are grounded in technical…

CHI '26Children's AI Literacy & Data Literacy +2

Once Upon AI Time: Combining Narrative and Games for Early AI Literacy

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly present in children’s lives, yet few tools support developmentally appropriate AI literacy for grades K-3. This work examines the role of narrative in early AI literacy by directly comparing two versions of interactive game-based digital storybooks for children ages 6-9. Th…

CSCW '25Supporting Youth

Cultivating a Supportive Sphere: Designing Technology to Increase Social Support for Foster-Involved Youth

Approximately 400,000 youth in the US are living in foster care due to experiences with abuse or neglect at home. For multiple reasons, these youth often don’t receive adequate social support from those around them. Despite technology’s potential, very little work has explored how these tools can provide more support…

AUTO_UI '24Automated Driving Interface & Takeover Design

Text a Bit Longer or Drive Now? Resuming Driving after Texting in Conditionally Automated Cars

In this study, we focus on different strategies drivers use in terms of interleaving between driving and non-driving related tasks (NDRT) while taking back control from automated driving. We conducted two driving simulator experiments to examine how different cognitive demands of texting, priorities, and takeover time…

CHI '24Generative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +1

AI-Augmented Brainwriting: Investigating the use of LLMs in group ideation

The growing availability of generative AI technologies such as large language models (LLMs) has significant implications for creative work. This paper explores twofold aspects of integrating LLMs into the creative process – the divergence stage of idea generation, and the convergence stage of evaluation and selection…

CHI '24Human-LLM Collaboration +1

How Beginning Programmers and Code LLMs (Mis)read Each Other

Generative AI models, specifically large language models (LLMs), have made strides towards the long-standing goal of text-to-code generation. This progress has invited numerous studies of user interaction. However, less is known about the struggles and strategies of non-experts, for whom each step of the text-to-code…

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…

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