Organizers
Sarah E. Fox is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in the Human Computer Interaction Institute, where she’ll start as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2020. Her research focuses on how technological artifacts challenge or propagate social exclusions, by examining existing systems and building alternatives.
Vera Khovanskaya is a PhD candidate in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University. She studies show social implications are built into technology through technical decision-making, and develops methods to identify and alter underlying values in technology through critical technical practice.
Clara Crivellaro is Senior Research Fellow at Newcastle University’s Open Lab, where she explores the design of tools and participatory socio-technical processes to support democratic practices and social justice. She is currently leading Not-Equal—a network to support collaborative responses to issues of social justice in technology design and implementation, including the future of work and workforces.
Niloufar Salehi is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information at UC, Berkeley. Her research interests are in social computing, technologically mediated collective action, digital labor, and more broadly, human-computer-interaction (HCI). Through building computational social systems in collaboration with existing communities, controlled experiments, and ethnographic fieldwork, her research contributes the design of alternative social configurations online.
Chinmay Kulkarni is an Assistant Professor of Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie-Mellon, where he directs the Expertise@Scale lab. In his research, Chinmay introduces new collaborative computer systems that help people learn and work better; typically, these systems use the large scale of participation to yield benefits that are otherwise not achievable.
Lynn Dombrowski is an Assistant Professor at the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University – Purdue University – Indianapolis. She studies, designs, and prototypes human-centered technologies for intervening in large systemic social issues, like social and economic inequalities (e.g., hunger; wage violations).
Lilly Irani is an Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies at University of California, San Diego. Her research examines the cultural politics of high-tech work and the counter-practices they generate, as both an ethnographer, a designer, and a former technology worker. She is a co-founder and maintainer of digital labor activism tool Turkopticon. Her recent book Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India (Princeton University Press) was awarded the Diana Forsythe Prize by American Anthropological Association.
Jodi Forlizzi is the Geschke Director and a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She is responsible for establishing design research as a legitimate form of research in HCI that is different from, but equally as important as, scientific and human science research. She is a member of the ACM CHI Academy and has been honored by the Walter Reed Army Medical Center for excellence in HRI design research.