68 citations · 134 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for
7 papers
Challenges in Designing Racially Inclusive Language Technologies
Kimi Wenzel, Geoff Kaufman
We take a critical lens toward the pursuit of racially inclusive language technologies and identify several areas necessitating future work. We discuss the potential harms of conve…
Can Voice Assistants Be Microaggressors? Cross-Race Psychological Responses to Failures of Automatic Speech Recognition
Kimi Wenzel, Nitya Devireddy, Cam Davidson +1
Language technologies have a racial bias, committing greater errors for Black users than for white users. However, little work has evaluated what effect these disparate error rates…
Nooks: Social Spaces to Lower Hesitations in Interacting with New People at Work
Shreya Bali, Pranav Khadpe, Geoff Kaufman +1
Initiating conversations with new people at work is often intimidating because of uncertainty about their interests. People worry others may reject their attempts to initiate conve…
Empathosphere: Promoting Constructive Communication in Ad-hoc Virtual Teams through Perspective-taking Spaces
Pranav Khadpe, Chinmay Kulkarni, Geoff Kaufman
When members of ad-hoc virtual teams need to collectively ideate or deliberate, they often fail to engage with each others' perspectives in a constructive manner. At best, this lea…
Significant Otter: Understanding the Role of Biosignals in Communication
Fannie Liu, Chunjong Park, Yu Jiang Tham +4
With the growing ubiquity of wearable devices, sensed physiological responses provide new means to connect with others. While recent research demonstrates the expressive potential…
Animo: Sharing Biosignals on a Smartwatch for Lightweight Social Connection
Fannie Liu, Mario Esparza, Maria Pavlovskaia +3
We present Animo, a smartwatch app that enables people to share and view each other's biosignals. We designed and engineered Animo to explore new ground for smartwatch-based biosig…