Workshop Organizers

Each of the workshop's organizers has a distinct commitment to public sector technology: developing it, critiquing it, and making a case for its place in the methodological and theoretical trajectories of HCI and CSCW as disciplines. We look forward to learning with you!

Ridley Jones LeDoux

is a PhD candidate (ABD) in Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. Her work focuses on interorganizational public service technology systems development, with a qualitative, ethnographically-inflected approach. Ridley's CV.

Seolha Lee

is a PhD candidate in Informatics at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Her research combines ethnography and design research to investigate the roles and relations of actors across the public, private, and social sector in shaping the government technology ecosystem and its political effects. https://seolhalee.github.io/

Pelle Tracey

is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI). He is an ethnographer of recordkeeping, broadly interested in how automated technologies, AI, and bureaucracy work in practice, particularly in frontline government or rental housing contexts.

Rachel B. Warren

is a PhD student in Informatics at UCI. She uses a ethnographic and participatory design methods to study predictive systems and data technologies in the public sector including with public defenders, fire departments, and disaster planners. She is currently studying efforts to use data to optimize emergency paramedicine and emergency dispatching.

Trine Rask Nielsen

is a postdoc in the HCC section at UCPH and a member of the Confronting Data Co-lab. Combining ethnography, participatory design, and research-through-design, she studies the role of data and data-driven technologies in public sector domains such as asylum, healthcare, and unemployment.

www.confrontingdata.dk

Andrew Hamann

is a PhD student in Informatics at UCI. His research uses ethnography to study how techno-legal solutions frame public issue formation and possible futures. He is currently studying the downstream effects of data-intensive housing policy on IT infrastructure and labor in municipal government.

We will also be joined by Dr. Christopher Le Dantec as our keynote speaker.

Dr. Christopher Le Dantec

Christopher Le Dantec is professor and the director of Digital Civics Initiatives in the the College of Arts, Media and Design and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston. He is a computer scientist and design researcher focused on the area of Digital Civics and has long focused on how the social and organizational settings of civic work need to shape computing technologies that enable governance and advocacy. It is not just that civic work is a downstream application of research in computer science, but that the settings of public and community-based organizations necessarily shape the kinds of questions computing research needs to address.

Through his research Le Dantec seeks to understand how novel computing interfaces enable new forms of public participation and data-based governance within municipal institutions and agencies; he also works closely with community and grass-roots organizations to express local civic priorities through the design and strategic deployment of interactive computing systems to advance equity and address city-scale issues on transportation, food security, and climate resilience.

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