Organizers

Jed R. Brubaker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He conducts research in social computing focused on how identity is designed, represented, and experienced in socio-technical systems. He has conducted extensive research at the intersection of HCI and mortality, notably around memorialization, grief, legacy, and post-mortem data. He has previously organized six workshops at CHI, CSCW, and ICSWSM.

Meredith Ringel Morris is Director for Human-AI Interaction Research at Google DeepMind. Prior to joining DeepMind, she was Director of the People + AI Research team in Google Research’s Responsible AI division. She also previously served as Research Area Manager for Interaction, Accessibility, and Mixed Reality at Microsoft Research. Merrie is also an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington in The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science \& Engineering and in The Information School. She is an ACM Fellow and a member of the SIGCHI Academy. Her research explores novel methods of human-AI interaction as well as issues around AI ethics and the societal impacts of AI. Merrie has been an organizer of fifteen academic workshops, including at HCI-oriented venues such as CSCW, ASSETS, and UIST and at AI-oriented venues such as CVPR and the AI Now Institute.  

Dylan Thomas Doyle is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research explores technology in healthcare settings. Dylan’s dissertation research focuses on designing tools and techniques for technologies to more effectively attend to data and account management needs at the end of our lives. A hospital chaplain and ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, Dylan holds a Masters of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University.

Casey Fiesler is an Associate Professor in the College of Media, Communication and Information at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She researches and teaches in the areas of technology ethics, internet law and policy, and online communities. She is a Fellow in the Silicon Flatirons Institute for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, an ATLAS Fellow, and holds a courtesy appointment in Computer Science. Also a public scholar, she is a frequent commentator and speaker on topics of technology ethics and policy. She pioneered the "Black Mirror Writer's Room" design fiction technique for reflecting on ethical issues and societal impacts of technology.

Martin Gibbs is a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. His research interests lie at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) with a focus on remembrance and digital commemorative practices. He is an author of the recent books Death and Digital Media (2018, Routledge) and Digital Domesticities (2020, Oxford). He is also a co-editor of the collection of essays, Residues of Death (2019, Routledge). 

Joanna McGrenere is Co-Head and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia and recently completed a five-year Inria & Université of Paris Saclay International Research Chair. Her broad research area is Human-Computer Interaction, with a specialization in interface personalization, universal usability, assistive technology, and computer-supported cooperative work; recently, her research has included a focus on understanding individual differences in how people manage their ever-increasing amounts of personal digital data and designing technologies for end-of-life planning that account for that data and those differences.