BostonCHI: Dominic DiFranzo – Designing for Empathy on Social Media
ABSTRACT Modern design goals for social media platforms have focused on growth in terms of increasing user population and engagement, but are starting to show their growing pains with the widespread of hate speech, cyberbullying, and fake news. This design…
Remote! Code for Boston Civic Hack Night
Code for Boston is a Code for America Brigade - a volunteer civic innovation organization created by Boston-area developers, designers, and activists with an interest in solving civic and social problems through the use of technology. We feel that Boston…
Public Lecture Series: Critical Perspectives on Technology
Technologies invade our everyday lives, take part in constructing our identity, classify (often violently) bodies, and, pushed by recent regulations on social distancing, play an expanding role in connecting families and friends. The effects of this rapid increase of technological…
A Future of Work for the Invisible Workers in A.I – Saiph Savage
When: Thursday, December 10, 8 AM PST (11 AM EST, 17:00 Central European time) Where: Zoom Meeting Password: 081065 Speaker: Saiph Savage Abstract: The A.I. industry has created new jobs that have been essential to the real-world deployment of intelligent systems. These new jobs…
Redefining Productivity to Adapt to a Changing Landscape of Work – Shamsi Iqbal
Title: Redefining Productivity to Adapt to a Changing Landscape of Work Abstract: As our work environments and work practices rapidly evolves as a result of the changing landscape of work, what we envision as the future of work is being…
Designing New Physical Interactions
Presenter Sowmya Somanath, Assistant Professor, University of Victoria Abstract We live in a time where we are increasingly spending more hours of our day in the virtual world facilitated by digital interfaces such as smartphone apps, video conferencing tools and…
X4D Talks: Community Networks
Shaddi Hasan Shaddi is an incoming assistant professor of computer science at Virginia Tech, starting in Fall 2021. I completed my PhD at UC Berkeley in 2019, where I worked in the Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions group with Eric Brewer.…
Remote! Code for Boston Civic Hack Night
Code for Boston is a Code for America Brigade - a volunteer civic innovation organization created by Boston-area developers, designers, and activists with an interest in solving civic and social problems through the use of technology. We feel that Boston…
Public Lecture Series: Critical Perspectives on Technology
Technologies invade our everyday lives, take part in constructing our identity, classify (often violently) bodies, and, pushed by recent regulations on social distancing, play an expanding role in connecting families and friends. The effects of this rapid increase of technological…
Robots for us: Participatory and community-centered design of robots
December 17th, 2020 – 4pm (CET, Vienna) – Selma Šabanović (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) Robots for us: Participatory and community-centered design of robots Abstract Our visions of having robots present in day to day use in schools, homes, and workplaces are becoming increasingly…
Remote! Code for Boston Civic Hack Night
Code for Boston is a Code for America Brigade - a volunteer civic innovation organization created by Boston-area developers, designers, and activists with an interest in solving civic and social problems through the use of technology. We feel that Boston…
Public Lecture Series: Critical Perspectives on Technology
Technologies invade our everyday lives, take part in constructing our identity, classify (often violently) bodies, and, pushed by recent regulations on social distancing, play an expanding role in connecting families and friends. The effects of this rapid increase of technological…
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