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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…