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View article: Making exploratory search engines using qualitative case studies: a mixed method implementation using interviews with Detroit Artisans
Making exploratory search engines using qualitative case studies: a mixed method implementation using interviews with Detroit Artisans Open
Search engine algorithms are increasingly subjects of critique, with evidence indicating their role in driving polarization, exclusion, and algorithmic social harms. Many proposed solutions take a top-down approach, with experts proposing …
View article: Keynote Talk: AI at Africa's Crossroads: Extractive or Generative Future?
Keynote Talk: AI at Africa's Crossroads: Extractive or Generative Future? Open
In African traditions, the crossroads is where the trickster makes his/her appearance. Eshu, Legba, Anansi and others create complexity when our decisions fold back on themselves. AI has created yet another crossroads, and again the tricks…
View article: Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow
Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow Open
The Latin roots of the word reparations are “re” (again) plus “parere” which means “to give birth to, bring into being, produce”. Together they mean “to make generative once again”. In this sense, the extraction processes that cause labor …
View article: Hip Hop as Computational Neuroscience
Hip Hop as Computational Neuroscience Open
Long before the internet provided us with a networked digital system, music exchanges had created a global networked analog system, built of recordings, radio broadcasts, and live performance. The features that allowed some audio formation…
View article: Extrapolating significance of text-based autonomous vehicle scenarios to multimedia scenarios and implications for user-centered design
Extrapolating significance of text-based autonomous vehicle scenarios to multimedia scenarios and implications for user-centered design Open
Extrapolation from low-fidelity design iterations is especially critical in HRI. An initial proposal for low-fidelity to higher fidelity extrapolation is developed using insights from cognitive multimedia learning theory to account for the…
View article: REDESIGNING ON-LINE FOOD CONSUMPTION TO ENHANCE RACIAL AND SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH GENERATIVE PRODUCTION NETWORKS
REDESIGNING ON-LINE FOOD CONSUMPTION TO ENHANCE RACIAL AND SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH GENERATIVE PRODUCTION NETWORKS Open
The food system in the US has supported growing dominance of industrial agriculture, corporate distribution chains, and other means by which power is exerted at the expense of environmental sustainability, citizen health and wealth inequal…
View article: Product Design And Innovation: A New Curriculum Combining The Humanities And Engineering
Product Design And Innovation: A New Curriculum Combining The Humanities And Engineering Open
NOTE: The first page of text has been automatically extracted and included below in lieu of an abstract Product Design and Innovation: A New Curriculum Combining the Humanities and Engineering Gary A. Gabriele, Larry Kagan, Frances Bronet,…
View article: “A Voice to Talk About it”: Cosmetologists as Stem Experts in Educational Technology Design and Implementation
“A Voice to Talk About it”: Cosmetologists as Stem Experts in Educational Technology Design and Implementation Open
In the U.S. there are steady efforts by governmental and philanthropic organizations to increase the representation of students of colour in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). After years of mixed results, researcher…
View article: AI for a Generative Economy: The Role of Intelligent Systems in Sustaining Unalienated Labor, Environment, and Society
AI for a Generative Economy: The Role of Intelligent Systems in Sustaining Unalienated Labor, Environment, and Society Open
Extractive economies pull value from a system without restoring it. Unsustainable extraction of ecological value includes over-fishing, clear-cut logging, etc. Extraction of labor value is similarly objectionable: assembly line jobs for ex…
View article: Automation for the Artisanal Economy: Enhancing the Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Crafting Professions with Human-Machine Collaboration
Automation for the Artisanal Economy: Enhancing the Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Crafting Professions with Human-Machine Collaboration Open
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to eliminate millions of jobs, from finance to truck driving. But artisanal products—(e.g. handmade textiles) are valued precisely because of their human origins, and thus have some inherent “immunity…
View article: A Cultural Computing Curriculum
A Cultural Computing Curriculum Open
Broadening the participation of underrepresented students in computer science fields requires careful design and implementation of culturally responsive curricula and technologies. Culturally Situated Design Tools (CSDTs) address this by e…
View article: A Generative Perspective on Engineering: Why the Destructive Force of Artifacts Is Immune to Politics
A Generative Perspective on Engineering: Why the Destructive Force of Artifacts Is Immune to Politics Open
Whether value is extracted for redistribution by a communist state, or extracted for purposes of private enterprise, the problem is in the extraction, which is strongly influenced by the engineering design. A generative approach to enginee…
View article: Interactive Complexity: Software Metrics from an Ecosystem Perspective
Interactive Complexity: Software Metrics from an Ecosystem Perspective Open
With even the most trivial of applications now being written on top of millions of lines code of libraries, API's, and programming languages, much of the complexity that used to exist when designing software has been abstracted away to all…
View article: An introduction to generative justice
An introduction to generative justice Open
Marx proposed that capitalism’s destructive force is caused, at root, by the alienation of labor value from its generators. Environmentalists have added the concept of unalienated ecological value, and rights activists added the unalienate…
View article: MODELING IN ETHNOCOMPUTING: REPLACING BI-DIRECTIONAL FLOWS WITH RECURSIVE EMERGENCE
MODELING IN ETHNOCOMPUTING: REPLACING BI-DIRECTIONAL FLOWS WITH RECURSIVE EMERGENCE Open
Ethnocomputing is the study of the intersections between culture and computing. In addition to cultural analysis of computing, it also utilizes computing to model artifacts or practices from a given culture. In this essay, we consider thre…
View article: Of Marx and Makers: an Historical Perspective on Generative Justice
Of Marx and Makers: an Historical Perspective on Generative Justice Open
In Marxist frameworks “distributive justice” depends on extracting value through a centralized state. Many new social movements—peer to peer economy, maker activism, community agriculture, queer ecology, etc.—take the opposite approach, ke…
View article: Adinkra Mathematics: A study of Ethnocomputing in Ghana
Adinkra Mathematics: A study of Ethnocomputing in Ghana Open
This paper details the development and evaluation of software that allows middle school students to explore the mathematical aspects of Ghanaian Adinkra symbols. We tested the effectiveness of this simulation in a Ghanaian junior high scho…