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Cornell University
HCI and design, security and privacy, critical data studies, health and data
Emily's research explores data, privacy and power in computing infrastructures for care. She is currently a PhD student in Information Science at Cornell University, based in New York City at Cornell Tech and primarily advised by Nicki Dell and Deborah Estrin. In previous lives she built epidemiological models for disease spread, made radio, print and multimedia journalism, and did early-stage product development at a consumer health tech startup. She holds an M.S. from Cornell Tech and a B.A. from Princeton University.
What can computing offer to care?
The spread of computing systems and the algorithmic mediation of our social worlds have exacerbated harms for the vulnerable among us. In parallel, systems of care, for example in medicine and social work, grapple with how computational tools can help people facing these harms. Working from my group's research helping victims of tech-enabled intimate partner violence, this work-in-progress talk will outline some ongoing problems in the proposition of computing systems accelerating or augmenting our basic human impulse to look out for each other.