@anna-kawakami
PhD candidate in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute @ Carnegie Mellon University. Research, design, and policy for AI-augmented work. Working across: Human-AI interaction, responsible AI, AI measurement, augmented intelligence. annakawakami.com
I am recruiting a postdoc in HCI & AI!
Interested in augmenting human thinking and learning, futures of work & education, participatory AI, collective intelligence, or related topics? Please get in touch! This 2-year position will be based at a top university in Europe (email or DM for more info)
Screenshot of the CSCW 2025 paper "The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry" CELLA M. SUM, Carnegie Mellon University, USA ANNA KONVICKA, Princeton University, USA MONA WANG, Princeton University, USA SARAH E. FOX, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Abstract: The tech industry’s shifting landscape and the growing precarity of its labor force have spurred unionization efforts among tech workers. These workers turn to collective action to improve their working conditions and to protest unethical practices within their workplaces. To better understand this movement, we interviewed 44 U.S.-based tech worker-organizers to examine their motivations, strategies, challenges, and future visions for labor organizing. These workers included engineers, product managers, customer support specialists, QA analysts, logistics workers, gig workers, and union staff organizers. Our findings reveal that, contrary to popular narratives of prestige and privilege within the tech industry, tech workers face fragmented and unstable work environments which contribute to their disempowerment and hinder their organizing efforts. Despite these difficulties, organizers are laying the groundwork for a more resilient tech worker movement through community building and expanding political consciousness. By situating these dynamics within broader structural and ideological forces, we identify ways for the CSCW community to build solidarity with tech workers who are materially transforming our field through their organizing efforts.
What can #CSCW learn from tech workers who have been involved in collective action and unionization about how to make transformative change within our field?
My new #CSCW2025 paper with Mona Wang, Anna Konvicka, and Sarah Fox seeks to answer this question.
Pre-print: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12579
Thank you to the many folks from the FAS--especially our main mentor @cclangevin.bsky.social--who provided us with very helpful feedback and training to create this memo!
Find memo here: fas.org/publication/...
tldr; We discuss how a federal center of excellence can be implemented to ensure state + local agencies have the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to make informed AI procurement decisions.
Written w/ @kenholstein.bsky.social @haiyizhu.bsky.social
🏛️ How can we ensure that AI enhances, rather than harms, public services?
In our policy memo, published with the Federation of American Scientists (@scientistsorg.bsky.social), we provide recommendations for how the fed gov't could help state & local agencies make better AI procurement decisions.🧵
Please apply to work with Ken!! He is fantastic! And I'll get to work with you potentially too!
I'm seeking a postdoc to work with me and @kenholstein.bsky.social on evaluating AI/ML decision support for human experts:
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/10/p...
P.S. I'll be at NeurIPS Thurs-Mon. Happy to talk about this position or related mutual interests!
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Do you feel that your profession or organization urgently needs to adopt #AI? Here's some advice that we often share (as academics working in human-AI interaction and #ML) with professional colleagues who consider the role of modern technology in their professions.
(w/ Weiwei Pan and Hongjin Lin)
I'm hiring PhD students at Brown CS! If you're interested in human-robot or AI interaction, human-centered reinforcement learning, and/or AI policy, please apply. Or get your students to apply :). Deadline Dec 15, link: cs.brown.edu/degrees/doct.... Research statement on my website, www.slbooth.com
Our CMU HCII Summer 2025 undergraduate research program application is open until January 17, 2025.
Students can choose from 25 research projects when applying to this paid, 10-week HCI REU program.
🔗 hcii.cmu.edu/news/hcii-se...
Wrapped up the first offering of a new course @cmuhcii.bsky.social this week: Augmenting Intelligence coaugmentation.com
This was *such* a blast to teach! At our course exhibition on Wednesday, students presented posters, interactive demos, and art pieces around cognitive augmentation for...
Jeff and about 20 other folks from CMU
look at this great photos of CMU folks at #cscw2024