publications

2025

1. [ASSETS25, to appear] The State of Climate Change and Disability: A Survey

   Ethan Sandoval, Lily Anfang, Maya Flynn, Kaitlynn Gray, Gregory Wickham, and Lynn Kirabo

   2025
2. Being a First-Year Undergrad in Human-Centered Research

   Lily Anfang, Maya Flynn, Kaitlynn Gray, Ethan Sandoval, and Lynn Kirabo

   Interactions, Jan 2025

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   The Interactions website (interactions.acm.org) hosts a stable of bloggers who share insights and observations on HCI, often challenging current practices. Each issue we’ll publish selected posts from some of the leading and emerging voices in the field.

3. Primarily Undergraduate Institution Faculty

   Sophia Krause-Levy, Victoria Dean, Lynn Kirabo, and Cynthia Taylor

   In Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Jan 2025

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   In this session, we aim to foster a community of computer science faculty across many primarily undergraduate institutions. We will foster an inclusive environment through activities that allow for multiple forms of engagement (e.g. shows of hands, small group introductions, and full group discussion). We will facilitate discussions about ways computer science is changing at PUIs and continue to brainstorm ways that our community can be sustained outside of the SIGCSE TS.

2024

1. HCI, Mobility Justice, and Migration in the Face of Climate Crisis

   Louisa Kayah Williams, Rayan Awad Alim, Vishal Sharma, Reem Talhouk, Marisol Wong-Villacrés, Lynn Kirabo, Tajanae Harris, Dipto Das, Carleen Maitland, Bryan Semaan, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Robert Soden

   In Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, San Jose, Costa Rica, Jan 2024

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   This one-day in-person workshop invites together scholars from the CSCW community with expertise in immigration and displacement, climate change and sustainability, and/or mobility justice to consider the challenge of climate migration and how we, as a community, might respond. We draw from previous workshops on migration and displacement in CSCW and HCI, as well as draw in researchers from other related areas, e.g., ICTD, development scholarship, and sustainability sciences. In this workshop, participants aim to engage in an array of activities such as concept mapping, archival creation, research proposal ideation and presentations. Outcomes will include the development of a community of scholars working at the nexus of these crises, common understanding of relevant concepts and themes, and a shared research agenda to guide future work.

2. Primarily Undergraduate Institution Faculty

   Victoria Dean, Lynn Kirabo, Sophia Krause-Levy, and Cynthia Taylor

   In Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2, Portland, OR, USA, Jan 2024

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   In this session, we aim to foster a community of computer science faculty across many primarily undergraduate institutions. We will foster an inclusive environment through activities that allow for multiple forms of engagement (e.g. shows of hands, small group introductions, and full group discussion). We will facilitate discussions about ways computer science is changing at PUIs and brainstorm ways that our community can be sustained outside of the SIGCSE TS.

2021

1. Priorities, Technology, & Power: Co-Designing an Inclusive Transit Agenda in Kampala, Uganda

   Lynn Kirabo, Elizabeth Jeanne Carter, Devon Barry, and Aaron Steinfeld

   In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan, Jan 2021

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   There is considerable effort within the HCI community to explore, document, and advocate for the lived experiences of persons with disabilities (PWDs). However, PWDs from the Global South, particularly Africa, are underrepresented in this scholarship. We contribute to closing this gap by investigating the unmet transit needs and characterization of technology within the disability community in Kampala, Uganda. We investigated transportation due to the increase in ride-share solutions created by widespread mobile computing and the resulting disruption of transportation worldwide. We hosted co-design sessions with disability advocates and adapted the stakeholder tokens method from the value-sensitive design framework to map the stakeholder ecosystem. Our key insight is the identification of a new group of non-traditional core stakeholders who highlight the values of inclusion, mobility, and safety within the ecosystem. Finally, we discuss how our findings engage with concepts of disability justice and perceptions of power.