Positech Resources

Workshop Proposals and Selected Submissions

JaeWon Kim*, Lindsay Popowski*, Anna Fang, Cassidy Pyle, Guo Freeman, Ryan M. Kelly, Angela Y. Lee, Fannie Liu, Angela D. R. Smith, Alexandra To, and Amy X. Zhang. 2024. Envisioning New Futures of Positive Social Technology: Beyond Paradigms of Fixing, Protecting, and Preventing. In Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 701–704.
JaeWon Kim, Jiaying "Lizzy" Liu, Lindsay Popowski, Cassidy Pyle, Sowmya Somanath, Hua Shen, Casey Fiesler, Gillian R. Hayes, Alexis Hiniker, Wendy Ju, Florian "Floyd" Mueller, Ahmer Arif, and Yasmine Kotturi. 2025. Design for Hope: Cultivating Deliberate Hope in the Face of Complex Societal Challenges. In Companion Publication of the 2025 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 112–115.
JaeWon Kim, Aayushi Dangol, Rotem Landesman, Alexis Hiniker, and McKenna F. Parnes. 2026. Sustainable Care: Designing Technologies That Support Children's Long-Term Engagement with Social Issues. Workshop at the 2026 ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC '26; withdrawn).
JaeWon Kim, Lindsay Popowski, Louisa Conwill, Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Li, Meryl Ye, Jiaying 'Lizzy' Liu, Jose A. Guridi, Theia Henderson, Bingxu Han, Dennis Wang, Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Susan Wyche, Yasmine Kotturi, Gillian R. Hayes, and Angela D. R. Smith. 2026. The Capacity to Care: Designing Social Technology for Sustained Engagement With Societal Challenges.

Casey Fiesler, The Internet is Bad for You. The Internet is Good for You. (submission for CSCW2024 workshop) [Link to Article]
Miranda Wei, Reflections on Sociotechnical Harms for Positech. (submission for CSCW2024 workshop) [Link to Article]

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