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Knowledge Workers and Associative Activity: An Examination of Knowledge Work Systems and Settings
The US has experienced broad reaching economic changes as work has moved from the farm, to the factory, to the office, and now beyond. The long-term, high-level shift toward information work in the US is accompanied by ... -
Maintaining the Menstruating Body: Feminist Interventions on Care Resources
This dissertation examines recent industry and policy initiatives aimed at extending menstrual resources, as well as participatory grassroots programs operating alongside these efforts. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork ... -
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 ... -
Mediation, Motives, and Goals: Identifying the Networked Nature of Contemporary Activism
(2012-09-13)Many contemporary work organizations are dynamic, complex entities that are increasingly networked and distributed in nature. Using an activist organization as the site of research, this study examines how a loosely-networked, ... -
Mobile hybridity: supporting personal and romantic relationships with mobile phones in digitally emergent spaces
(2007)Mobile phones are a global phenomenon and can be readily found in places as technologically disparate as Japan and sub-Saharan Africa. Their sociological impact in these diverse cultural and technological contexts is rich ... -
Noticing and Enacting Equity Across Design Sites of Knowledge
Our commitments influence the narratives we center, the technologies we design, and the knowledge we create. Yet, little scholarship exists that documents the lived experience of enacting our commitments in practice. I ... -
Personal Data and Team Dynamics: Tracking Technology in U.S. College Sports
My dissertation focuses on coordination around personal data and human-data interaction in a high-stakes, high-performance environment: college sports. In the last decade, wearable tracking technologies—e.g., FitBit, Garmin, ... -
Practitioners’ Views on Cultural Adaptation of Web-based Products
Researchers have repeatedly found cross-cultural differences in how people behave, perceive, and interact with information. However, it is unclear how these findings translate into cultural adaptations in global products ... -
Promoting Rhetorical Awareness and Perceived Self-Efficacy: Engineering Undergraduate Students Creating Preparedness Portfolios About Communication
(2013-07-23)Effective communication has been identified in recent years as a crucial competency for practicing engineers by industry professionals, educators, engineering graduates working in the field, and current engineering ... -
QuikScan: Facilitating Document Use Through Innovative Formatting
(2008)Reading and seeking information in documents are among the crucial literacies of our time. Our ability to carry out these activities successfully is due to a long series of innovations in information design that go back ... -
Social Media as Local Crisis Infrastructure: The Interconnected Work of Citizens, Responders, and Journalists in the Social Media Crowd
This research considers the role of social media after the deadly 2014 Oso Landslide: how impacted community members, responders, volunteers, and journalists made use (and sometimes did not make use) of social media. Drawing ... -
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 ... -
Task Shifting, Tools, and Tactics: Investigating the Collaborative Practices of Community Health Workers in India
In this study, I investigate the work practices of health workers across five different health centers in India in rural, peri-urban, and urban settings. Study methods includes a clinic site survey, semi-structured interviews, ... -
The Effect of Need to Belong on Online Social Behaviors and Cognitive Interactions
The ubiquity of the online and social networking community has changed how people communicate with friends and strangers. The need to belong, one of the fundamental social needs in human’s society, plays an important role ... -
Toward Better Design of Humanitarian ICT: A Social Agency-Centered Framework of Humanitarian Information Needs Based on a Grounded Study of Successful Red
Meaningful and relevant design of humanitarian technology must be informed by a deeper understanding of information practices found within successful humanitarian field-work. Existing largely in geographic isolation and ... -
Toward Centering Access in Professional Design
Human-Computer Interaction research has long been concerned with foregrounding user needs in the design of technology. Indeed, its professionalized application, often called design, aims to put this philosophy in practice. ... -
Transforming Queer Health Technologies Through Community-Based Systems Design
Technologists are often motivated to do good in the world, laying out grand visions for how to optimize systems, automate tedious tasks, and expand what is possible. However, these innovations can create or exacerbate ... -
Transitioning Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD) Projects from Research to Implementation
(2011-08-03)Since international development emerged at the end of World War II, people have had high expectations that technology and information would play a central role in improving the lives of people in resource-constrained ...