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Evaluating Beyond the Screen: Collective Assessment of AI-Generated Business Plans with Resource-Constrained Entrepreneurs
Qi Zhao, Marjory Pineda, Ketul Chhaya +2
Entrepreneurs increasingly use end-user generative AI technologies such as ChatGPT for high-stakes documents like loan applications and business plans, where AI-generated errors---…
The Capacity to Care: Designing Social Technology for Sustained Engagement With Societal Challenges
JaeWon Kim, Lindsay Popowski, Louisa Conwill +12
People care about climate change, injustice, and humanitarian crises. The challenge is not apathy but capacity: sustained engagement with large-scale problems is psychologically co…
Towards Designing for Resilience: Community-Centered Deployment of an AI Business Planning Tool in a Small Business Center
Quentin Romero Lauro, Aakash Gautam, Yasmine Kotturi
Entrepreneurs in resource-constrained communities often lack time and support to translate ideas into actionable business plans. While generative AI promises assistance, most syste…
Participatory, not Punitive: Student-Driven AI Policy Recommendations in a Design Classroom
Kaoru Seki, Manisha Vijay, Yasmine Kotturi
Generative AI is reshaping education, yet most university AI policies are written without students and focus on penalizing misuse. This top-down approach sidelines those most affec…
A Node on the Constellation: The Role of Feminist Makerspaces in Building and Sustaining Alternative Cultures of Technology Production
Erin Gatz, Yasmine Kotturi, Andrea Afua Kwamya +1
Feminist makerspaces offer community led alternatives to dominant tech cultures by centering care, mutual aid, and collective knowledge production. While prior CSCW research has ex…
BizChat: Scaffolding AI-Powered Business Planning for Small Business Owners Across Digital Skill Levels
Quentin Romero Lauro, Aakash Gautam, Yasmine Kotturi
Generative AI can help small business owners automate tasks, increase efficiency, and improve their bottom line. However, despite the seemingly intuitive design of systems like Cha…
Design for Hope: Cultivating Deliberate Hope in the Face of Complex Societal Challenges
JaeWon Kim, Jiaying "Lizzy" Liu, Lindsay Popowski +10
Design has the potential to cultivate hope in the face of complex societal challenges. These challenges are often addressed through efforts aimed at harm reduction and prevention -…
Understanding the Challenges of Maker Entrepreneurship
Natalie Friedman, Alexandra Bremers, Adelaide Nyanyo +5
The maker movement embodies a resurgence in DIY creation, merging physical craftsmanship and arts with digital technology support. However, mere technological skills and creativity…
Exploring the Role of Social Support when Integrating Generative AI into Small Business Workflows
Quentin Romero Lauro, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Yasmine Kotturi
Small business owners stand to benefit from generative AI technologies due to limited resources, yet they must navigate increasing legal and ethical risks. In this paper, we interv…
"This really lets us see the entire world:" Designing a conversational telepresence robot for homebound older adults
Yaxin Hu, Laura Stegner, Yasmine Kotturi +6
In this paper, we explore the design and use of conversational telepresence robots to help homebound older adults interact with the external world. An initial needfinding study (N=…
Deconstructing the Veneer of Simplicity: Co-Designing Introductory Generative AI Workshops with Local Entrepreneurs
Yasmine Kotturi, Angel Anderson, Glenn Ford +2
Generative AI platforms and features are permeating many aspects of work. Entrepreneurs from lean economies in particular are well positioned to outsource tasks to generative AI gi…