17 papers
From Retrieval to Synthesis: Repair Literacy and the Domestication of Generative AI
Tawfiq Ammari, Meilun Chen, S M Mehedi Zaman +1
How do students develop AI literacy through everyday practice rather than formal instruction? While normative AI literacy frameworks proliferate, empirical understanding of how stu…
When Sounds Hurt and Voices Aren't Heard: An Experience Report on Misophonia, Sensory Trauma, and Trauma-Informed Design
Tawfiq Ammari
This experience report reflects on researching misophonia as someone who lives with it. Misophonia is an aversive response to everyday sounds (chewing, sniffling, pen clicking) and…
Interdependent Navigation and Pragmatic Disengagement: How Older Korean Immigrants Selectively Engage with Digital Technologies
Jeongone Seo, Tawfiq Ammari
Older immigrant adults face unique barriers to digital participation, often framed as skill deficits. Through a community-based study with 22 older Korean immigrants in the greater…
Patient-Made Knowledge Networks: Long COVID Discourse, Epistemic Injustice, and Online Community Formation
Tawfiq Ammari
Long COVID represents an unprecedented case of patient-led illness definition, emerging through Twitter in May 2020 when patients began collectively naming, documenting, and legiti…
Remote Triggers: Misophonia, Technology Non-Use, and Design for Inclusive Digital Spaces
Tawfiq Ammari, Samantha Gilgan
Misophonia, characterized by intense negative reactions to specific sounds or related visual cues, remains poorly recognized in clinical settings yet profoundly affects daily life.…
Spatiotemporal Change-Points in Development Discourse: Insights from Social Media in Low-Resource Contexts
Woojin Jung, Charles Chear, Andrew H. Kim +2
This study investigates the spatiotemporal evolution of development discourse in low-resource settings. Analyzing more than two years of geotagged X data from Zambia, we introduce…