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Designing Interactive Systems for Flexible Work and Social Well-Being
This project examines how interactive systems can better support information workers in flexible and remote arrangements, especially as work unfolds alongside household routines and caregiving. We examine how people navigate time, space, and boundaries at home, then translate those insights into design directions for more inclusive, accessible, and equitable futures of work that prioritize worker well-being.
Investigators: Tse Pei Ng, Daniel Campos Muñiz
Futures of Care: Migrant Care Work and Care Infrastructures
This project examines migrant care workers' roles in sustaining care systems in countries like Singapore. Despite their central contribution, they are not always included in discussions about the future of care. Using a co-design approach, the research collaborates with workers to envision alternative futures and inform care technologies, policies, and infrastructures for the care economy.
Investigators: Daniel Campos Muñiz
Designing Reflective Technologies from Daoist Perspective
This line of research investigates how Daoism, as a non-Western philosophical tradition, challenges dominant Western framings of reflection as goal-directed, cognitively driven, and centered on individual self-improvement and problem-solving. Drawing on Daoist epistemologies and ontological commitments, we develop design directions for reflective technologies in HCI and contribute conceptual resources that broaden research agendas in HCI and design.
Investigators: Aaron Pengyu Zhu
Related Pubs: [CHI'26]
Beyond Self-Control: Reflective Mobile Use for Adolescents
This project explores how adolescents interpret and reshape everyday mobile technology use through reflection and lived judgment. Using youth participatory action research, adolescents act as co-researchers to examine the meanings of "mindless" use and challenge control-focused narratives. Through co-designed reflective activities and iterative prototyping, the project develops approaches that foster critical and self-aware relationships with mobile technologies.
Investigators: Aaron Pengyu Zhu
Everyday AI Auditing: Youth Tools for Responsible Text-to-Image (T2I) Use
This research investigates everyday algorithm auditing of text-to-image (T2I) AI by youth as a lens for designing support for critical use in everyday interaction. We aim to design an auditing tool that can be integrated into youths' routine T2I use to scaffold critical engagement by empowering youth to detect and make sense of problematic model behaviors and reflect on their experiences.
Investigators: Mengyuan Zhu
Related Pubs: [CHI' 26 Workshop]
Futures of Care: Infrastructuring Technology in Aged Care Work
This project examines how digital technologies are adopted and sustained in long-term residential aged care and how care workers carry the invisible work of making these systems function in everyday practice. Grounded in ethnographic research in a Singapore facility through an infrastructuring lens, we show how fragmented, top-down technology integration creates ongoing "patchworking," reshaping professional agency, liability, and power dynamics. We then bring stakeholders together in workshops to envision technologies and organizational practices that better support decent care work and more sustainable care delivery.
Investigators: Daniel Campos Muñiz, Tse Pei Ng
Related Pubs: [GROUP' 26] [DIS' 25 Companion-a] [DIS' 25 Companion-b] [CSCW' 24 Companion]
Related Pubs: [GROUP' 26] [DIS' 25 Companion-a] [DIS' 25 Companion-b] [CSCW' 24 Companion]
Community-Driven Techno-Spiritual Care for Kidney Health
This research explores community-driven kidney health engagement with Malay-Muslim communities in Singapore, centering spirituality, trust, and community care. Working with mosques through participatory and Research-through-Design methods, including exhibitions and AI-supported artifacts, it examines appropriate sacred health engagement and advances decolonial, culturally grounded approaches to responsible AI and empowerment.
Investigators: Syafiq Bin Rahim
Personal Informatics and Reflective Self-Tracking
This project explores how personal informatics tools (e.g., self-tracking) can support reflection as meaning-making, rather than simply behavior change or performance optimization. Through design and qualitative inquiry, we examine how people interpret data alongside routines, emotions, and life circumstances. The project contributes design directions for personal informatics systems that are more human-centered, context-aware, and supportive of sustainable well-being.