4 papers
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…
Framing Responsible Design of AI for Mental Well-Being: AI as Primary Care, Nutritional Supplement, or Yoga Instructor?
Ned Cooper, Jose A. Guridi, Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang +3
Millions of people now use non-clinical Large Language Model (LLM) tools like ChatGPT for mental well-being support. This paper investigates what it means to design such tools resp…
From Fake Perfects to Conversational Imperfects: Exploring Image-Generative AI as a Boundary Object for Participatory Design of Public Spaces
Jose A. Guridi, Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Duarte Santo +4
Designing public spaces requires balancing the interests of diverse stakeholders within a constrained physical and institutional space. Designers usually approach these problems th…
Thoughtful Adoption of NLP for Civic Participation: Understanding Differences Among Policymakers
Jose A. Guridi, Cristobal Cheyre, Qian Yang
Natural language processing (NLP) tools have the potential to boost civic participation and enhance democratic processes because they can significantly increase governments' capaci…