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Browsing Human Centered Design & Engineering by Subject "Computer science"
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Community Safety Together: How Reflection and Radical Imagination Can Help Us Build the Worlds We Need
In this dissertation, I explore human-centered design approaches to support community-driven projects that aim to reinforce self-determination and grow networks of support and care. The context in which I approach this ... -
Designing Engaging Conversational Interactions for Health & Behavior Change
The recent popularity of chat and voice-based conversational interactions fueled by advances in natural language processing (NLP) has opened up opportunities for re-imagining user interactions in health & behavior change ... -
Designing to Support Sense of Agency for Time Spent on Digital Interfaces
App designers often exploit psychological vulnerabilities to maximize clicks, views, and time on site. When people attempt to resist such media use, their failure rate is higher than for any other temptation in everyday ... -
The Effect of Visual Design and Information Content on Readers’ Assessments of API Reference Topics
Software developers must learn and use an increasing number of application-programming interfaces (APIs) to create applications and web sites. To apply these APIs in the increasingly short development time that modern ... -
Human Centered Tools for Analyzing Online Social Data
In the social sciences, researchers are increasingly turning to datasets collected from social media, online chat, forums, and email to address questions about human communication and behavior. However, these datasets are ... -
Measuring Distributed Mentoring in an Online Fanfiction Community
This dissertation approaches questions about how creators informally learn from their online networks using a human-centered data science perspective. Over the past few decades, participation in online communities has ... -
Software and Space: Investigating How a Cosmology Research Group Enacts Infrastructure by Producing Software
Software is a pervasive element of twenty-first century life and an integral element of scientific research. Research in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) in recent decades investigates how distributed, collaborative ... -
Supporting Intentional Media Use in Families
Designers of interactive technologies have long prioritized user engagement, and today’s popular end-user products are irresistibly engaging. Modern technology offers enormous value and convenience, but it has also led to ... -
Supporting Long-Term Health Monitoring by Reducing User Burden and Enhancing User Benefit
The prevalence of smartphones and advances in low cost monitoring sensors have dramatically increased self-tracking in recent years. Among many other areas of self-tracking, health and wellness is one area that has received ... -
Troubling Matters: Examining the Spread of Misinformation and Disinformation on Social Media During Mass Disruption Events
Most users want Twitter feeds, Facebook pages, and other information streams to be free of misleading content. Whether this misleading content was spread unintentionally (misinformation) or on purpose (disinformation), ... -
Understanding the Structure and Dynamics of Multi-platform Information Operations
Information operations—efforts to distort the information ecosystem through methods such as the dissemination of disinformation in efforts to influence opinions or actions of individuals, governments or publics—are ... -
Using Visual Analytics to Support Artificial Intelligence Development
In the artificial intelligence (AI) era, complex AI is becoming more common in daily life. Various reports indicate that AI plays an increasingly influential role in human society (e.g., [Russell et al. 2015, Stone et al. ...