Speaker Débora is an activist, social designer, and Amazonian Decolonial thinker. She is currently a research associate at University of Siegen, where her research is about how communities experience and deal with economic and technological pressures in areas of post-conflict and social instability. Her PhD dissertation explored how peripheral communities in the Amazon rainforest make use…
Tiffany Knearem is a UXR at Google on the Material Design team. She is interested in AI applications for design tooling to support product designer-developer collaboration and unlock creativity. For her PhD her primary research focus was on understanding and enabling community innovation through information and communication technologies, with a dissertation focus on community-based care during…
Speaker Denise Lengyel is an Innovation Fellow at the Centre for Digital Citizens within Open Lab, exploring the ‘Ageless’ citizen. My work is centered around the exploration of arts-based and creative research methods including text-, image- and perfomance-based methods such as (visual) storytelling, drawing and dance. My interest is in arts as an embodied way of…
DCitizens is returning again with a three-day training event in Lisbon, Portugal, that will explore the strategies and techniques to engage and work with communities to co-create, deploy, and evaluate civic technologies that seek to empower citizens in service provision and civic participation. The Summer School has been designed for students studying, working on research,…
🇵🇹 Versão em Português DCitizens opened a call for Collaborative projects that should use digital technologies to promote positive social change. DCitizens is funded by the European Commission and promotes Digital Civics research and innovation in Lisbon. Digital Civics posits using technology to empower citizens and non-state actors to co-create, take an active role in…
Speaker Katta Spiel is an Assistant Professor for ‘Critical Access in Embodied Computing’ at TU Wien. They research marginalised perspectives on embodied computing through a lens of Critical Access. Their work informs design and engineering supporting the development of technologies that account for the diverse realities they operate in. In their interdisciplinary collaborations with neurodivergent…
Abstract : In this presentation, I share research insights on the complex societal effects of AI-generated content, with a particular emphasis on Deepfakes and their ethical implications. Drawing on empirical research, I will discuss how society perceives and interacts with AI-generated content and its technologies. Through audience participation, I aim to showcase the impact of digital…
The DCitizens Project will be hosting a Special Interest Group (SIG) at CHI 2024 in Honolulu, Hawaii DCitizens Roles Unveiled: SIG Navigating Identities in Digital Civics and the Spectrum of Societal Impact. Anna R. L. Carter, Kyle Montague, Reem Talhouk, Shaun Lawson, Hugo Nicolau, Ana Cristina Pires, Markus Rohde, Alessio Del Bue, and Tiffany Knearem…
🇵🇹 Versão em Português We are excited to announce the second civic engagement workshop of DCitizens. It is a one-day workshop on the 27th of February that aims to bring together a diverse group of participants from academia, the public and 3rd sector, and industry to discuss the needs and opportunities in Civic and Inclusive…
Abstract In this talk, I will talk about the way in which artificial intelligence mirrors collective intelligence, and what that means for its governance. I will draw from research exploring citizen deliberation to explain how collective ideas and values are shaped in a variety of domains, including in online townhalls and Indigenous parliaments. I will…