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Overview

Phoebe Sengers is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and is active in the field of Computer Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Safety Research, Information Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, Sociology and Political Science, and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their recent publications cover a range of interdisciplinary topics. Notable papers include:

  • "Making data science systems work" (2020), Big Data & Society
  • "Big Tech Meets Big Ag: Diversifying Epistemologies of Data and Power" (2022), Science as Culture
  • "Legibility and the Legacy of Racialized Dispossession in Digital Agriculture" (2021), Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Speculation and the Design of Development" (2021), Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Seamless Visions, Seamful Realities: Anticipating Rural Infrastructural Fragility in Early Design of Digital Agriculture" (2022), CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Their frequent publication venues, reflecting a focus on technology and societal impacts, include:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Big Data & Society
  • Science as Culture

Phoebe Sengers collaborates regularly with a number of coauthors. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Gloire Rubambiza
  • Hakim Weatherspoon
  • Jen Liu
  • Samir Passi
  • Imani Madison

Their research topics focus strongly on the intersections of technology, society, and ethics with an emphasis on:

  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • ICT in Developing Communities
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
  • Information Systems Theories and Implementation
  • Data Visualization and Analytics
  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices

Best Publications

  • Reflective design

    Phoebe Sengers;Kirsten Boehner;Shay David;Joseph 'Jofish' Kaye

  • Mapping the landscape of sustainable HCI

    Carl DiSalvo;Phoebe Sengers;Hrönn Brynjarsdóttir

  • Staying open to interpretation: engaging multiple meanings in design and evaluation

    Phoebe Sengers;Bill Gaver

  • The Three Paradigms of HCI

    Steve Harrison;Phoebe Sengers

  • How HCI interprets the probes

    Kirsten Boehner;Janet Vertesi;Phoebe Sengers;Paul Dourish

  • Making by making strange: Defamiliarization and the design of domestic technologies

    Genevieve Bell;Mark Blythe;Phoebe Sengers

  • Sustainably unpersuaded: how persuasion narrows our vision of sustainability

    Hronn Brynjarsdottir;Maria Håkansson;James Pierce;Eric Baumer

  • How emotion is made and measured

    Kirsten Boehner;Rogério DePaula;Paul Dourish;Phoebe Sengers

  • Fit4life: the design of a persuasive technology promoting healthy behavior and ideal weight

    Stephen Purpura;Victoria Schwanda;Kaiton Williams;William Stubler

  • Affect: from information to interaction

    Kirsten Boehner;Rogério DePaula;Paul Dourish;Phoebe Sengers

  • Autobiographical design in HCI research: designing and learning through use-it-yourself

    Carman Neustaedter;Phoebe Sengers

  • Sense and sensibility: evaluation and interactive art

    Kristina Höök;Phoebe Sengers;Gerd Andersson

  • Making epistemological trouble: Third-paradigm HCI as successor science

    Steve Harrison;Phoebe Sengers;Deborah Tatar

  • Environmental sustainability and interaction

    Jennifer C. Mankoff;Eli Blevis;Alan Borning;Batya Friedman

  • In-car gps navigation: engagement with and disengagement from the environment

    Gilly Leshed;Theresa Velden;Oya Rieger;Blazej Kot

  • Design Within a Patriarchal Society: Opportunities and Challenges in Designing for Rural Women in Bangladesh

    Sharifa Sultana;François Guimbretière;Phoebe Sengers;Nicola Dell

  • Introduction to the special issue on practice-oriented approaches to sustainable HCI

    James Pierce;Yolande Strengers;Phoebe Sengers;Susanne Bødker

  • Expanding and Refining Design and Criticality in HCI

    James Pierce;Phoebe Sengers;Tad Hirsch;Tom Jenkins

  • Reflective HCI: towards a critical technical practice

    Paul Dourish;Janet Finlay;Phoebe Sengers;Peter Wright

  • "I lie to myself that i have freedom in my own schedule": productivity tools and experiences of busyness

    Gilly Leshed;Phoebe Sengers

  • Enhancing ubiquitous computing with user interpretation: field testing the home health horoscope

    William Gaver;Phoebe Sengers;Tobie Kerridge;Joseph Kaye

  • Beyond being green: simple living families and ICT

    Maria Håkansson;Phoebe Sengers

  • Historical analysis: using the past to design the future

    Susan Wyche;Phoebe Sengers;Rebecca E. Grinter

  • Interfaces with the ineffable: Meeting aesthetic experience on its own terms

    Kirsten Boehner;Phoebe Sengers;Simeon Warner

  • The disenchantment of affect

    Phoebe Sengers;Kirsten Boehner;Michael Mateas

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl DiSalvo
Carl DiSalvo Georgia Institute of Technology
Paul Dourish
Paul Dourish University of California, Irvine
Michael Mateas
Michael Mateas University of California, Santa Cruz
William Gaver
William Gaver Northumbria University
Carman Neustaedter
Carman Neustaedter Simon Fraser University
Mark Blythe
Mark Blythe Northumbria University
Batya Friedman
Batya Friedman University of Washington
Allison Woodruff
Allison Woodruff Google (United States)
Kristina Höök
Kristina Höök Royal Institute of Technology
Peter Wright
Peter Wright Newcastle University

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