4 papers
Beyond the Hype: Mapping Uncertainty and Gratification in AI Assistant Use
Karen Joy, Tawfiq Ammari, Alyssa Sheehan
A new generation of AI personal assistants reached consumers in 2023-2024 amid sweeping claims about anticipatory, agentic intelligence. Wearables such as the Rabbit R1 and Humane…
Normalized Surveillance in the Datafied Car: How Autonomous Vehicle Users Rationalize Privacy Trade-offs
Yehuda Perry, Tawfiq Ammari
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are characterized by pervasive datafication and surveillance through sensors like in-cabin cameras, LIDAR, and GPS. Drawing on 16 semi-structured intervie…
Navigating Algorithmic Opacity: Folk Theories and User Agency in Semi-Autonomous Vehicles
Yehuda Perry, Tawfiq Ammari
As semi-autonomous vehicles (AVs) become prevalent, drivers must collaborate with AI systems whose decision-making processes remain opaque. This study examines how drivers of AVs d…
"If it has an exclamation point, I step away from it, I need facts, not excited feelings": Technologically Mediated Parental COVID Uncertainty
Karen Joy, Michelle Liang, Tawfiq Ammari
As a novel virus, COVID introduced considerable uncertainty into the daily lives of people all over the globe since late 2019. Relying on twenty-three semi-structured interviews wi…