STREET Lab is focused on understanding and supporting the sociotechnical practices of marginalized communities around the world, with an emphasis in resistance, informality, and social justice. We are an interdisciplinary research group working with Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Social Computing, Development Studies, Political Science,
Some broad research projects that we currently work on:
How are social movements using technologies? How can we support them?
Researchers: Ashique Ali T, Paridhi Gupta, Cagdas Dedeoglu, Cansu Ekmekcioglu, Janna Akimova, Emily Su, Carmen Chau, Jaydon Brown, Marco Chan
Subprojects:
FoI 2023-24 SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG) for “Repertoires of Contention in the Digital Labour Platforms (DLPs)”
How does technologies (and algorithmic management) shape labour experiences in digital marketplaces?
Researchers: Ashique Ali T, Adrian Petterson, Isabella Rodriguez, Olivia Doggett
Subprojects:
Paper “Networks of care in digital domestic labour economies” in CHI2024
How can we build more inclusive systems and processes?
Researchers: Carolyn Ly, Trevor Cross, Ishani Pandey, Adrian Petterson, Jocelyn Mattka, Selin Naz Tasman
Subprojects:
Exploring and supporting the strategies employed by abortion care organizations to coordinate reproductive health services
Researchers: Adrian Petterson
How can we help designers shift systems of oppression?
Researchers: Adrian Petterson
How are notions of the Posthuman used in HCI and Design fields?
Researchers: Cagdas Dedeoglu, Kit Haehnal
What strategies do creators on the social media platform TikTok use to circumvent censorship when producing sex ed content?
Researchers: Emily Weckend
