Social sciences
Just Tech: Centering Community-Driven Innovation at the Margins episode 2 with Dr. Tawanna Dillahunt, Zachary Rowe, and Joanna Velazquez
In “Just Tech: Centering Community-Driven Innovation at the Margins,” Senior Principal Researcher Mary L. Gray explores how technology and community intertwine and the role technology can play in supporting community-driven innovation and community-based organizations. Dr.…
Building with, not for: Case Studies of Community-Driven Employment Innovations
Technology presents a force for positive change; however, technology has perpetuated racism and deepened social inequality and injustice seen in society. There are many reasons for these injustices within our design and development practices alone.…
Just Tech: Centering Community-Driven Innovation at the Margins episode 1 with Desmond Patton and Mary L. Gray
In “Just Tech: Centering Community-Driven Innovation at the Margins,” Senior Principal Researcher Mary L. Gray explores how technology and community intertwine and the role technology can play in supporting community-driven innovation and community-based organizations. Dr.…
PeopleLens: Using AI to support social interaction between children who are blind and their peers
For children born blind, social interaction can be particularly challenging. A child may have difficulty aiming their voice at the person they’re talking to and put their head on their desk instead. Linguistically advanced young…
Women in Data Science Community Panel Event: Women in Experimentation
In this video, five female industry leaders from Airbnb, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Twitter shared insights about their career journeys and how they curate an experimentation driven culture at their companies. Watch the video and learn…
Intersectional Tech: Black Praxis in Digital Gaming
With this presentation, I explicate the possibilities of synthesizing theories and methods from the disciplines of feminism, critical race, media studies, anthropology, among others in putting forth a critical study of intersectional technoculture. Through ethnographic…
