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, Jaydon Brown, Marco Chan
Subprojects:
How do technologies (and algorithmic management) shape labour experiences?
Researchers: Ashique Ali T, Adrian Petterson, Isabella Rodriguez, Olivia Doggett
Subprojects:
FoI 2024-25 SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG) for “State-Owned Digital Labour Platforms and Platform Politics”
Paper “Migrant Farmworkers’ Experiences of Agricultural Technologies - Implications for Worker Sociality and Desired Change” in CHI 2024 (Honorable Mention)
How can we build more inclusive systems and processes?
Researchers: Kim Fernandes, Carolyn Ly, Trevor Cross, Ishani Pandey, Adrian Petterson, Sid Shinde
Subprojects:
How can we help designers shift systems of oppression?
Researchers: Adrian Petterson, Trevor Cross, Carolyn Ly
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
Designing research tools to help qualitative researchers
Researchers: Emily Su, Carmen Chau