3 papers
cs.HC2026
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…
cs.HC2025
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 -…
cs.HC2024
Envisioning New Futures of Positive Social Technology: Beyond Paradigms of Fixing, Protecting, and Preventing
JaeWon Kim, Lindsay Popowski, Anna Fang +8
Social technology research today largely focuses on mitigating the negative impacts of technology and, therefore, often misses the potential of technology to enhance human connecti…