This blog post summarizes a research paper, Understanding Socio-technical Factors Configuring AI Non-Use in UX Work Practices, published at the ACM 2025 CHI Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference by Inha Cha and Richmond Wong, which can be freely downloaded at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713140 When Everyone’s Using AI… Why Are Some Choosing Not To? AI tools are […]
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2 New Lab Papers Published at CHI and CSCW
2 papers both relating to themes of technology “non-use” and “alternative use” practices have been published at ACM CHI and CSCW! Inha Cha’s paper Understanding Socio-technical Factors Configuring AI Non-Use in UX Work Practices was published and presented at CHI 2025, and examines multiple reasons that lead User Experience (UX) professionals to not use AI […]
Received Seed Grant from the Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI (AIAI) Network
Richmond Wong was awarded a seed grant from the Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI (AIAI) Network for a project titled Exploring IT Tech Workers’ Commutes and Transit Infrastructure in Atlanta, with assistance from PhD students Soyoun Jang and Inha Cha. This project seeks for an in-depth understanding on the spatial and cultural dimensions of AI production in […]
Summer 2024 Creating Ethics Infrastructures Lab Publications and Grants!
Summer 2024 has been a busy time for the Creating Ethics Infrastructure Lab! In July, we published a paper at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) conference, Ethics Pathways: A Design Activity for Reflecting on Ethics Engagement in HCI Research. Lead authors–PhD student Inha Cha and visiting scholar Ajit Pillai–presented the paper at the DIS […]
“Broadening Privacy and Surveillance” paper Receives Honorable Mention Paper Award at DIS 2023
Richmond Wong’s article, “Broadening Privacy and Surveillance: Eliciting Interconnected Values With a Scenarios Workbook on Smart Home Cameras,” received an honorable mention paper award at the recently concluded Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2023). In the paper, Wong and co-authors created speculative scenarios to explore how smart home cameras might […]