Our full program is posted below, however to attend C&T 2021 please go to https://comtech-2021.pathable.co/.
Program Overview
Our conference program has three main sections:
- Community Day (Sunday, June 20, 2021) bringing together C&T conference attendees and people from the local community to discuss and work together to discuss purposeful and pragmatic approaches for mutual understanding.
- Workshops (Monday – Tuesday, June 21-22, 2021) including a Doctoral Colloquium, enabling focused discussion and exploration of specific research areas.
- Main Conference (Wednesday – Friday, June 23-25, 2021) with single track presentations comprised of keynotes, paper sessions including case studies, and a posters and demos session.
The content of our program is largely based on paper, workshop, and poster submissions, selected through a peer review process and organized by our track chairs. Due to the covid-19 pandemic, the conference will be held online using a virtual event platform called Pathable.
Full Conference Schedule
Sunday, June 20th – Pre-event Community Day (See Details)
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Welcome Lobby |
| 09:00 – 9:30 |
Welcome and Introduction |
| 09:30 – 10:45 |
Panel Discussion ~ Seattle Facing Wicked Problems * Maru Mora Villalpando, Co-founder and community organizer, La Resistencia * Miranda Marti, co-lead, 350 Seattle Maritime Solutions Team * Roxanne White, Missing and Murdered Indigenous People / MMIP and Their Families |
| 11:00 – 12:30 |
Workshops: Animating Climate Campaigns: Using the Liberating Voices Pattern Language to Connect and Start New Initiatives Design Fiction for Smart Cities in Seattle and Beyond Design Creativity |
| 12:30 – 01:30 |
Community Lunches |
| 01:30 – 02:30 |
Moving Forward with Communities and Technologies With commentary by Chris Coward (University of WA), Jasmine Jones (Berea College), and Lisa Nathan (University of British Columbia) we will consider the various discussions and themes of the day and look towards the future. |
Monday, June 21st – Workshops & Doctoral Colloquium
| 08:00 – 08:30 | Welcome Lobby |
| 08:30 – 12:15 |
Workshop A: The Arts-based Creative Approaches (half day, hours TBD) Download PDF Workshop B: The Ethical Approaches to Smart Environments (half day, hours TBD) Download PDF Workshop C: The Grassroots Communities (full day, hours TBD) Download PDF |
Tuesday, June 22nd – Workshops
| 08:00 – 08:30 | Welcome Lobby |
| 08:30 – 12:15 |
Workshop C: The Grassroots Communities (full day, hours TBD) Download PDF |
| 1:30 – 3:30 |
Doctoral Consortium |
Wednesday, June 23rd – Main Conference
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Welcome Lobby |
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| 8:30 – 9:00 | Welcome and Opening |
| 9:00 – 10:00 |
Opening Keynote: Revealing the “Big Lie”: Collaborative Data Science for Rapid Response to Online Disinformation Kate Starbird, University of Washington , USA |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 – 12:15 | Paper Session A: “C&T in a Pandemic”
COVID-19 Kindness: Patterns of Neighborly Cooperation during a Global Pandemic (Long Paper) Critical Discourse Analysis on Media Coverage of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications: Case of South Africa (Long Paper) Care-full Design Sprints, Online: Addressing Gaps in Cultural Access and Inclusion during Covid-19 with Vulnerable Communities in London and Tokyo (Long Paper) Making Space for Support: An Exploratory Analysis of Pandemic-Response Mutual Aid Platforms (Short Paper) Remote Collaborative Childcare in the Workplace: Sharing Childcare with Colleagues during COVID-19 Emergency (Case Study) |
| 12:15 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Paper Session B: ”Civic Engagement”
Nordic Cities Meet Artificial Intelligence: City Official’s Views on Artificial Intelligence and Citizen Data in Finland (Long Paper) The Stakeholder Perspective on Using Public Polling Displays for Civic Engagement (Long Paper) Understanding Failures and Potentials of Argumentation Tools for Public Deliberation (Long Paper) UnityPhilly: Experiences with a Smartphone App that Facilitates Community Response to Opioid Overdoses (Case Study) |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 – 16:35 | Paper Session C: “Special Topics”
Putting ICT in the Hands of the Seafarers (Long Paper) Impalpable Narratives: How to Capture Intangible Cultural Heritage of Migrant Communities (Long Paper) Skid Row Power Now! A Participatory Co-design Project to Power up Digital Devices in Skid Row (Case Study) |
Thursday, June 24th – Main Conference
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Welcome Lobby |
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| 8:30 – 10:00 | Paper Session D: “Social Media”
How Refugees in South Africa Use Mobile Phones for Social Connectedness (Long Paper) Designing to Stop Live Streaming Cyberbullying: A Case Study of Twitch Live Streaming Platform (Long Paper) “We Found No Violation!”: Twitter’s Violent Threats Policy and Toxicity in Online Discourse (Long Paper) Deployment of a Community Information Platform in Santo Antão Island: A Case Study from Cabo Verde (Case Study) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 – 12:10 | Paper Session E: “Community and Collaboration 1”
Constructing Well-being Together: Older Adults Engagement in Coproduction Through Volunteering (Long Paper) What’s in a Pattern: A Vocabulary to Articulate Group Routines and Practices (Long Paper) Critical Making with and for Communities. Community-Driven Critical Making Grounded in Practitioners’ Perspectives on Definition and Praxis (Long Paper) BeamLite: Diminishing Ecological Fractures of Remote Collaboration through Mixed Reality Environments (Long Paper) |
| 12:10 – 13:30 |
Poster Session NYC Charity Crowd: A democratic, crowdsourced charitable foundation for New York City residents. Daniel Tsadok. Pluriversal Design: A Virtual Decolonising Exhibition. Asnath Paula Kambunga, Rachel Charlotte Smith, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Nathaly Pinto, Xavier Barriga Abril, Laura Boffi, Emmanuel Dzisi, Tariq Zaman, Desiree Hernandez Ibinarriaga, Anne Chahine, Laura Lennert Jensen and Vivi Vold. The Field Guide App – Connecting Island Communities to Local Conservation Through Mobile Interaction. Daniel Sousa, Alexandra R. Silva, Isabel R. Amorim, Simone Ashby, Ana Moura Arroz, Flora Piasentin, Rosalina Gabriel and Sónia Matos.
Hyperlocal Learning Network ‘La Campana-Altamira’ Using low-cost technologies to support maker education during lockdown times. Lay-Wah Carolina Ching-Chiang, Noe Abraham González-Nieto, Mark Gaved, Derek Jones, Nicole Lotz, Alejandra Díaz de León Lastras, Rafael Machado and Juan Manuel Fernández-Cárdenas.
& Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:45 | Paper Session F: “Community and Collaboration 2”
Seek and Reflect: A Mobile Scavenger Hunt to Develop Community Engagement (Long Paper) Going Beyond Empowered Design by Scaffolding Inter-community Engagement (Long Paper) Not in my Backyard!? Lessons from a Community Conflict (Long Paper) |
Friday, June 25th – Main Conference
| 8:00 – 9:00 | Welcome Lobby |
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| 9:00 – 10:00 |
Closing Keynote: Beyond Coded Bias: Data Rights as Human Rights Shalini Kantayya, 7th Empire Media, USA |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 – 12:15 |
Paper Session G: “Sustainable Communities” Designing Eco-Feedback Systems for Communities: Interrogating a Techno-solutionist Vision for Sustainable Communal Energy (Long Paper) Tackling Algorithmic Transparency in Communal Energy Accounting through Participatory Design (Long Paper) Into the Mine: Wicked reflections on Decolonial Thinking and Technologies (Long Paper) Air Partners: Community-driven Air Quality Monitoring, Mitigation, and Collaborative Governance (Case Study) Co-designing Recycling Solutions on Campus: A Case Study Exploring Openness, Realism, and Empowerment of Users in a Living Lab (Case Study) |
| 12:15 – 13:30 |
Town Hall & Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:45 |
Paper Session H: “Food and Agriculture” Articulating and Negotiating Boundaries in Urban Farming Communities (Long Paper) Agribuddy: Infrastructuring for Smallholder Farming in Cambodia (Long Paper) “This is not a free supermarket”: Reconsidering Queuing at Food-sharing Events (Long Paper) |
| 14:45 – 15:15 | Coffee Break |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Closing |