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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…

Chun-Han Ariel Wang et al.University of California Santa Cruz

“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…

Kathryn E. Ringland et al.University of California

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…

Bengisu Cagiltay et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison

"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…

Linda Hirsch et al.University of California

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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…

Dustin Palea et al.

UC Santa Cruz

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

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…

Chun-Han Ariel Wang et al.University of California Santa Cruz

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

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。

Bill Yen et al.Independent Researcher

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…

Nur Yildirim et al.Carnegie Mellon University

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…

EunJeong Cheon et al.Syracuse University

Sustainable Infrastructures for Rural and Local Computing

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…

Norman Makoto Su et al.University of California Santa Cruz

Reflections on Tech and CSCW

Drawing From Social Media to Inspire Increasingly Playful and Social Drone Futures

In this pictorial, we explore the potential of social media to help inspire ideas for future drone design applications that support playful and social experiences. Drawing from a Situated Play Design approach, we turn to social media posts to identify recurring playful and social instances of drone use in so…

Alexandra Pometko et al.University of California Santa Cruz

Investigating the Homogenization of Web Design: A Mixed-Methods Approach

Visual design provides the backdrop to most of our interactions over the Internet, but has not received as much analytical attention as textual content. Combining computational with qualitative approaches, we investigate the growing concern that visual design of the World Wide Web has homogenized over the past decade.…

Samuel Goree et al.Indiana University

``It's easier than causing confrontation'': Sanctioning Strategies to Maintain Social Norms and Privacy on Social Media

Sanctions play an essential role in enforcing and sustaining social norms. On social networking sites (SNS), sanctions allow individuals to shape community norms on appropriate privacy respecting behaviors. Existing theories of privacy assume the use of such sanctions but do not examine the extent and effectiveness…

Yasmeen Rashidi et al.Indiana University

Family, Children, and Youth

Behind the Voices: The Practice and Challenges of Esports Casters

Casters commentate on a live, streamed video game for a large online audience. Drawing from 20 semi-structured interviews with amateur casters of either Dota 2 or Rocket League video games and over 20 hours of participant observations, we describe the distinctive practices of two types of casters, play-by-play and col…

Lucas Kempe-Cook et al.Indiana University

Speedrunning for Charity: How Donations Gather Around a Live Streamed Couch

Games Done Quick (GDQ) is both a week-long video game speedrunning marathon and a successful charity event, raising more than $1.5 million USD in each of its past five events. To understand GDQ's success as an online charity event, we conducted 18 semi-structured interviews with GDQ speedrunners, attendees, hosts, and…

Stephen Tsung-Han Sher et al.Indiana University

Persuasion and Charity

Parting the Red Sea: Sociotechnical Systems and Lived Experiences of Menopause

Menopause is a major life change affecting roughly half of the population, resulting in physiological, emotional, and social changes. To understand experiences with menopause holistically, we conducted a study of a subreddit forum. The project was informed by feminist social science methodologies, which center knowled…

Amanda Lazar et al.University Of Maryland

Personalized Explanations for Hybrid Recommender Systems

Recommender systems have become pervasive on the web, shaping the way users see information and thus the decisions they make. As these systems get more complex, there is a growing need for transparency. In this paper, we study the problem of generating and visualizing personalized explanations for hybrid recommender…

Pigi Kouki et al.University of California Santa Cruz

Scene Text Access: A Comparison of Mobile OCR Modalities for Blind Users

We present a study with seven blind participants using three different mobile OCR apps to find text posted in various indoor environments. The first app considered was Microsoft SeeingAI in its Short Text mode, which reads any text in sight with a minimalistic interface. The second app was Spot+OCR, a custom applicati…

Leo S Neat et al.University of California

(Re-)Framing Menopause Experiences for HCI and Design

Informed by considerations from medicine and wellness research, experience design, investigations of new and emerging technologies, and sociopolitical critique, HCI researchers have demonstrated that women's health is a complex and rich topic. Turning these research outputs into productive interventions, however, is d…

Jeffrey Bardzell et al.University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Workshop: Rural Computing: Beyond Access and Infrastructure

The workshop is intended to be a forum to support and promote rural computing research and to reflect on the current state of our field. In addition, we’ll have an opportunity to hear from others working outside of the CSCW and HCI realm about how they do rural research. We look forward to participation from scholars…

Jean Hardy et al.University of Michigan

Workshop: Rural Computing: Beyond Access and Infrastructure

Paper Title	Authors	Research Topics
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…	CW Chun-Han Ariel Wang et al.University of California Santa Cruz
“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…	KR Kathryn E. Ringland et al.University of California
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…	BC Bengisu Cagiltay et al.University of Wisconsin - Madison
"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…	LH Linda Hirsch et al.University of California
AdRecommended Learn AI Coding at CodeNow Structured lessons, hands-on projects, and continuous updates for people bringing AI into real development work. Explore Now
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…	DP Dustin Palea et al.UC Santa Cruz	Session 1f: Dynamics of Group Formation and Interaction in Digital Spaces
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…	CW Chun-Han Ariel Wang et al.University of California Santa Cruz	Session 3d: Teens in the Digital Age: Safety, Creativity, and Well-Being
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。	BY Bill Yen et al.Independent Researcher
emoji_events 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…	NY Nur Yildirim et al.Carnegie Mellon University
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…	EC EunJeong Cheon et al.Syracuse University	Sustainable Infrastructures for Rural and Local Computing
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…	NS Norman Makoto Su et al.University of California Santa Cruz	Reflections on Tech and CSCW
Drawing From Social Media to Inspire Increasingly Playful and Social Drone Futures In this pictorial, we explore the potential of social media to help inspire ideas for future drone design applications that support playful and social experiences. Drawing from a Situated Play Design approach, we turn to social media posts to identify recurring playful and social instances of drone use in so…	AP Alexandra Pometko et al.University of California Santa Cruz
Investigating the Homogenization of Web Design: A Mixed-Methods Approach Visual design provides the backdrop to most of our interactions over the Internet, but has not received as much analytical attention as textual content. Combining computational with qualitative approaches, we investigate the growing concern that visual design of the World Wide Web has homogenized over the past decade.…	SG Samuel Goree et al.Indiana University
``It's easier than causing confrontation'': Sanctioning Strategies to Maintain Social Norms and Privacy on Social Media Sanctions play an essential role in enforcing and sustaining social norms. On social networking sites (SNS), sanctions allow individuals to shape community norms on appropriate privacy respecting behaviors. Existing theories of privacy assume the use of such sanctions but do not examine the extent and effectiveness…	YR Yasmeen Rashidi et al.Indiana University	Family, Children, and Youth
Behind the Voices: The Practice and Challenges of Esports Casters Casters commentate on a live, streamed video game for a large online audience. Drawing from 20 semi-structured interviews with amateur casters of either Dota 2 or Rocket League video games and over 20 hours of participant observations, we describe the distinctive practices of two types of casters, play-by-play and col…	LK Lucas Kempe-Cook et al.Indiana University
Speedrunning for Charity: How Donations Gather Around a Live Streamed Couch Games Done Quick (GDQ) is both a week-long video game speedrunning marathon and a successful charity event, raising more than $1.5 million USD in each of its past five events. To understand GDQ's success as an online charity event, we conducted 18 semi-structured interviews with GDQ speedrunners, attendees, hosts, and…	SS Stephen Tsung-Han Sher et al.Indiana University	Persuasion and Charity
Parting the Red Sea: Sociotechnical Systems and Lived Experiences of Menopause Menopause is a major life change affecting roughly half of the population, resulting in physiological, emotional, and social changes. To understand experiences with menopause holistically, we conducted a study of a subreddit forum. The project was informed by feminist social science methodologies, which center knowled…	AL Amanda Lazar et al.University Of Maryland
Personalized Explanations for Hybrid Recommender Systems Recommender systems have become pervasive on the web, shaping the way users see information and thus the decisions they make. As these systems get more complex, there is a growing need for transparency. In this paper, we study the problem of generating and visualizing personalized explanations for hybrid recommender…	PK Pigi Kouki et al.University of California Santa Cruz
Scene Text Access: A Comparison of Mobile OCR Modalities for Blind Users We present a study with seven blind participants using three different mobile OCR apps to find text posted in various indoor environments. The first app considered was Microsoft SeeingAI in its Short Text mode, which reads any text in sight with a minimalistic interface. The second app was Spot+OCR, a custom applicati…	LN Leo S Neat et al.University of California
(Re-)Framing Menopause Experiences for HCI and Design Informed by considerations from medicine and wellness research, experience design, investigations of new and emerging technologies, and sociopolitical critique, HCI researchers have demonstrated that women's health is a complex and rich topic. Turning these research outputs into productive interventions, however, is d…	JB Jeffrey Bardzell et al.University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Workshop: Rural Computing: Beyond Access and Infrastructure The workshop is intended to be a forum to support and promote rural computing research and to reflect on the current state of our field. In addition, we’ll have an opportunity to hear from others working outside of the CSCW and HCI realm about how they do rural research. We look forward to participation from scholars…	JH Jean Hardy et al.University of Michigan	Workshop: Rural Computing: Beyond Access and Infrastructure