Essays, Research, & Fiction.
Select writings from my published research papers, essays, and fiction writing. Broadly spanning my work in technology ethics, education, community development, sci-fi, and philosophical reflections. Use the quick links to jump to the section you're most interested in.
Technology Ethics
We interviewed community members about their views of collaborating with local universities and technologists to build guidance for ethical partnerships between communities and universities..
An analysis of participatory machine learning literature synthesizing what meaningful participation means to empower stakeholders in ML Design.
A survey study looking at how experts and non-experts perceive and evaluate risks posed by emerging technologies.
A review of how an experiential immersive theater project may actually be what can open people's eyes about privacy issues they often ignore until its a crisis.
Following 4 years of running an open tech help desk at our community center, we studied the needs of truly helping entrepreneurs in resource-constrained communities.
What if APIs told us what companies really did with our data?
An analysis and critique of the concept of 'fairness' in Machine Learning as used in the modern CS literature
A review of the impacts of a novel immersive theater show focused on teaching the public about the ethics of how their data is used.
Leveraging techniques from future studies and speculative analysis to discuss the ethical horizon of computer vision.
A Denver Post op-ed about the concerning realities of the data market that are shaping our future.
A practical framework for evaluating the ethics of autonomous machine action.
Curriculum & Pedagogy
A look at how ethics can and should be taught within computing education and professional development.
A model for teaching computer science through active learning inspired by flipped classroom methods. Published in ACM SIG-SCE 2015
An accessible walkthrough of how neural networks learn, written for a general audience curious about the mechanics behind AI.
A practical guide with examples for how to teach ethics in technical machine learning courses.
An assessment of the educational impact on students in participating in a cross-disciplinary theater production about computing ethics. Published in ACM SIG-CSE 2018
Fiction
A Spec Fic on the future of data ownership and brain data -- What if the future of romantic matching was based on our dreams?
Semi-autobiographical literary fiction about a tragedy that occurred in my hometown.
First Chapters of a Novel Draft I was working on in the early 2010s. About the relationship of our psychology and the information we receive starting with characters and the formation of media ideas in the 90s.
Literary fiction based on real family dramas and the TV show 'The Office'.
Philosophy & Politics
Drawing on John Dewey's philosophy to examine what genuine democratic participation requires in contemporary life.
A philosophy essay about the tension between physical reductionism and anti-reductionism in the philosophy of science, attempting to alleviate this tension by pointing out a conceptual misunderstanding.