Amanda Baughan

💅 Me
Adjunct professor at UW, UXR at Google, PhD from UW

Please do reach out if you're interested! Happy to answer any questions

📝 The Class
Moral Reasoning and Interaction Design (INFO 356)
35 undergrads who aspire to be designers, UXRs, engineers, and PMs
💁‍♀️ You 💁‍♂️
- A designer, UXR, engineer, or PM working on product/policy related to ethical tech design available at that day/time

💬 The Conversation
- No prep needed discussion, fireside chat style for 30-35 min
- We typically cover intro + background in career and education, day-to-day work, products you've worked on, and any ethical dilemmas you've had to navigate in your career related to product design
-Available over Zoom

💬 Seeking guest speaker for Design Ethics Class at the University of Washington!
📅 May 21 from 9:45-10:20 am PDT

I am a social computing/HCI researcher - could you add me?

Thank you so much! 😊 I really enjoyed our impromptu panel discussion too, it was fun.

✨This framing of using GenAI to coach humans who provide support can help avoid some of the harms we have seen when GenAI directly provides support to folks and takes us towards a more #responsibleAI future.

✨ How do we work with mental and spiritual healthcare providers to give them the sociotechnical tools that they need?

✨ When incorporating Generative AI into mental/spiritual well-being work, how can GenAI be a coach to those providing support, rather than something that directly supports those in need of care?

My favorite talk was a panel discussion on "(Un)designing AI for Mental and Spiritual Wellbeing" by @estellesmithphd.bsky.social and company. Some of the main takeaways for me were...

Photo of Amanda Baughan in a CSCW conference room, next to a slide with the paper title "Supporting Hard Conversations in Close Relationships Through Design"

Had a great time at #CSCW24! I appreciated connecting with others who are deeply interested in how technology impacts collaboration and relationships. I came away with a few new perspectives to consider in my own work, and it was good to connect with others tackling similar questions.

Thank you, and thanks for sharing! It was interesting how one of our therapist participants called out ease of use as counterproductive at times to emotional processing. And I'm looking forward to reading your paper in more depth, what an important context to design for and support!

Supporting Difficult Conversations in Close Relationships Through Design By Amanda Baughan, Larry Tian, Pranav Shekar, Amy Zhang, Alexis Hiniker

I'm excited to present research I conducted on how design can support hard conversations in close relationships at #CSCW24! Looking forward to connecting with folks at the conference!