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Richard DeMillo — Roots of Distrust: Modern Technology and the Impact of a 19th Century Voter Suppression Plan

Much effort is devoted these days to understanding the root cause of distrust in election systems. Little effort is devoted to understanding the relationship between election technology and the…

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Allen Hyde — Youth Advocacy for Resilience to Disasters: Empowering Youth to Be Advocates for Change

Frontline coastal communities are under increased threat from intersecting disasters. Extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, heatwaves, heavy precipitation, and flooding are projected to rise in…

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Yiyue Luo — Intelligent Textiles for Physical Interactions

Humans engage in a wide variety of daily activities by constantly interacting with the environment physically. Recording, modeling, and augmenting such physical interactions are fundamental to…

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Yiyi He — Understanding the Impact of Floods on Critical Infrastructure Networks

Critical infrastructure networks provide socio-economic services across local and regional scales. However, population and economic growth, urbanization, increasing infrastructure interdependency,…

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Cheng Zhang — Comprehending Human Behaviors with Everyday Wearables

Despite the rapid advancement of AI, computers' ability to comprehend human behaviors remains limited. For instance, commodity computing devices still face challenges in understanding even basic…

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Andy Quitmeyer — Mothbox: Open-Source Science Tools and Conservation

Dr. Andy Quitmeyer designs new ways to interact with the natural world. His transdisciplinary work spans scientific and design processes, from material exploration and natural experimentation to…

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Gillian R. Hayes — Community-Engaged Research in Autism and ADHD Technologies

For over two decades, my research has focused on the development and evaluation of technologies to support people with autism and ADHD and their families, friends, and allies. This work, grounded in…

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Sarah Fox — (Re)Working AI: Designing workplace technologies with and for labor

Work is transforming rapidly. While some might suggest labor is in a perpetual state of change, the accelerated development and deployment of artificially intelligent (AI) systems within workplaces…

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Kyle Yoshida — Collaborative Approaches to Haptics and Soft Robotics Research

Novel haptic interfaces and soft robots are integral to our increasingly digital world. Haptics can enhance robot teleoperation for various tasks including gaming, caregiving, and agriculture, while…

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Heidi Biggs — Reframing Climate Data: Situating Data in Histories in Place

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues we face today as a society. The phenomenon has inspired new awareness of human entanglements with non-human others (like plants, animals, and…

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Sandjar Kozubaev — Scaffolding Emergent Futures: From Communities to Infrastructures

Design researchers and practitioners have long been interested in shaping futures through objects, systems, and environments. This interest seems to be ubiquitous and is highly visible in industry,…

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Michael Best — Health, resilience, responsibility, and the arts: Things happening at the Institute for People and Technology

For the first IPaT: GVU Lunch Lecture of the academic year, Michael Best, executive director of the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), will present an overview IPaT’s activities and…

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Sumita Sharma — Critical AI literacy With Children: in Pursuit of Fair and Inclusive Technology Futures

Children interact with Artificial intelligence (AI) in various direct and indirect ways, yet, there is limited research on the impacts of AI on children. Further, these studies mainly focus on…

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Foley Scholar Winner and Finalists Spring 2024

2023 PhD Foley Scholar Award WinnerEnvisioning Technology-Mediated Futures of Care Work Karthik Seetharama Bhat Human Centered Computing Advisor: Neha Kumar ABSTRACT Caregiving is a universal…

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Sang Won Lee — Exploring Dual Perspectives in Computer-mediated Empathy

A common belief is that technology can play a pivotal role in enhancing individuals' capacity to empathize with others. While it is true, it's worthwhile to adopt an alternative perspective…

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Mark Braunstein — An Introduction to Healthcare AI

Healthcare and AI have an intertwined history dating back at least to the 1960's when the first 'cognitive chatbot' acting as a psychotherapist was introduced at MIT. Today, of course,…

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