7 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…
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…
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…
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…
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 -…