A number of MIT Media Lab researchers and alumni are participating in the 2025 ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW), held in Bergen, Norway. CSCW is the leading international venue for research on how technology shapes group interactions, communities, organizations, and networks.
Ila Krishna Kumar presented two projects as part of the Lifelong Kindergarten and Affective Computing groups:
- Cultivating a Supportive Sphere: Designing Technology to Increase Social Support for Foster-Involved Youth
- Connecting through Comics: Design and Evaluation of Cube, an Arts-Based Digital Platform for Trauma-Impacted Youth
Maggie Hughes and Cassandra Overney from MIT Center for Constructive Communication presented Voice to Vision: A Sociotechnical System for Transparent Civic Decision-Making
Media Lab alumni Nina Lutz (Poetic Justice) and Phil Tinn (City Science) co-led a workshop titled Beyond Information: Online Participatory Culture and Information Disorder