Katelyn Mei

Digital Culture Shock How culture shapes the design and use of technology—and how we can resist the one-size-fits-all approach to technology design

🚀 We turned LabintheWild into a book! 📖
Digital Culture Shock = global insights + LabintheWild tests so you can explore your cultural background.

How does culture shape tech—cars, apps, websites, ChatGPT?

👉 Can’t wait to hear what you think!

Digital Culture Shock How culture shapes the design and use of technology—and how we can resist the one-size-fits-all approach to technology design

What happens when a robotaxi from California tries to drive in Cairo? Is that website colorful or chaotic? And when did chatbots get so rude? In a new book, #UW prof @katharinareinecke.bsky.social explores how culture shapes tech use and design. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #HCI #AI #BookSky

Addressing Pitfalls in Auditing Practices of Automatic Speech Recognition Technologies: A Case Study of People with Aphasia Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has transformed daily tasks from video transcription to workplace hiring. ASR systems' growing use warrants robust and standardized auditing approaches to ensure aut...

🎙️ NEW WORK! @allisonkoe.bsky.social, Hilke Schellmann, Anna Seo Gyeong Choi, Katelyn Mei and I just released our stakeholder-grounded #AI #audit of speech-to-text transcription systems, examining the how well they work for people with #aphasia. More : arxiv.org/abs/2506.08846

Careless Whisper: Speech-to-Text Hallucination Harms | Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

This article was inspired by our paper “Careless Whisper: hallucinations: Speech-to-Text Hallucination Harms” dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
led by @allisonkoe.bsky.social together with @monasloane.bsky.social and Hilke Schellmann!

What are AI hallucinations? Why AIs sometimes make things up When AI systems try to bridge gaps in their training data, the results can be wildly off the mark: fabrications and non sequiturs researchers call hallucinations.

🚀 What is hallucination in AI systems? @annaseogyeongchoi.bsky.social and I recently explored this topic in depth, and our article has just been published in The Conversation! 🎉 theconversation.com/what-are-ai-...