Community and Community-oriented Research in the HCI+D Center
The HCI+D Center is committed to fostering a safe and welcoming community for all students, alumni, staff, faculty, collaborators, and community members interested in human-computer interaction and design. We actively work to maintain an open community where each person’s experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives are valued and encouraged.
HCI+D researchers often perform community-oriented research - creating technological environments that consider the broad range of community experiences and varied contexts in which technology operates. Our affiliates’ work often examines how design choices impact different community populations and how participatory approaches can enhance technological solutions for all.
Our scholars produce research that explores the development, adoption, and impact of new paradigms of interaction across different user populations and contexts. Through research, we contribute both practical solutions and theory to broaden and deepen meaningful roles for technology in society.
HCI+D researchers have produced peer-reviewed scholarship on many dimensions that reside at the intersection of community and technology, including:
- Harrington, C., Erete, S., and Piper, A.M. (2019). Deconstructing Community-Based Collaborative Design: Towards More Equitable Participatory Design Engagements. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 3, CSCW, Article 216 (November 2019), 25 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3359318
- Das, M., McHugh, T., Piper, A.M., and Gergle, D. (2022). Co11ab: Augmenting Accessibility in Synchronous Collaborative Writing for People with Vision Impairments. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 196, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501918
- Li, Y., Zhang, H., & O'Rourke, E. (2024). The Undervalued Disciplinary and Emotional Support Provided By Teaching Assistants in Introductory Computer Science Courses. In Lindgren, R., Asino, T. I., Kyza, E. A., Looi, C. K., Keifert, D. T., & Suárez, E. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2024 (pp. 1498-1501). International Society of the Learning Sciences.
- Horvat, E.-A., & Papamarkou, T. (2017). Gender Differences in Equity Crowdfunding. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 5(1), 51-60. https://doi.org/10.1609/hcomp.v5i1.13319