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Within Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), efforts to digitalize work contribute to continual economic growth by, e.g., enhancing work productivity and mediating workflows of capitalist firms to accumulate more and evermore capital at the expense ...

The relative value of automation is debated. On one hand, it is lauded for making mundane work doable by machines. Not only can such machines carry out such work more efficiently than humans: the latter are then empowered and opened up to fulfill ...

Digital platforms have become central in job search. Job-seekers’ experiences with these platforms, however, is a relatively new research area. This paper presents findings from 27 interviews with US low-income job-seekers. Job-seekers encountered many ...

The introduction of AI into working processes has resulted in workers increasingly being subject to AI-related harms. By analyzing incidents of worker-related AI harms between 2008 and 2023 in the AI Incident Database, we find that harms get addressed ...

Scholars have investigated numerous barriers to accessible software development tools and processes for Blind and Low Vision (BLV) developers. However, the research community has yet to study the accessibility of software development meetings, which are ...

Almost thirty years ago, CSCW published an article written by Joan Greenbaum detailing how and why CSCW should consider the framing of “labor” over “work” in researching and designing information systems [17]. This argument is especially salient in the ...

In the wake of media hype about artificial intelligence (AI)/human collaboration, organizations are investing considerable resources into developing and using AI. In this paper, we draw on theories of technology in organizations to frame new directions ...

Numerous toolkits have been developed to support ethical AI development. However, toolkits, like all tools, encode assumptions in their design about what work should be done and how. In this paper, we conduct a qualitative analysis of 27 AI ethics ...

Research in accessibility and assistive technology often assumes that technology is within easy reach, that is, people with disabilities are able to obtain technologies so long as they are accessible. As a result, less is understood about the challenges ...

Through intensive research on datasets, benchmarks, and models, the computer-vision community has taken great strides to identify the societal biases intrinsic to these technologies. Less is known about the last mile of the computer-vision machine-...

Over the 21st century, work has changed from physical labour to knowledge work that is mostly cognitive. To date, very few tools have been developed to facilitate its completion. While much has been written about tasks and many categorisations of tasks ...

The online gaming industry is now expanding, and under the guise of this, a problem that cannot be ignored is online gaming addiction among adults. Adults with severe addiction problems often spend money and sabotage their lives, careers, and ...

Much attention has been paid to the risk artificial intelligence poses to employment, particularly in low-wage industries. The question has invited well-placed concern from policymakers, as the prospect of millions of low-skilled workers finding ...

Algorithmic management, decentralized workforces, and on-demand labor models have deeply shifted traditional employment relationships. These technologies have concerning implications for workers’ ability to exercise labor rights, build collective power, ...

The digitization of matrimonial matchmaking has implications for work but also subjective notions of family, femininity, parent-child relations, community boundaries which this work relies on. This paper is based on qualitative, ethnographic fieldwork ...

We present a design fiction, which is set in the near future as significant Mars habitation begins. Our goal in creating this fiction is to address current work-life issues on Earth and Mars in the future. With shelter-in-place measures, established ...

Technologies are changing at a rapid pace and in unpredictable ways. The scale of their impact is also far-reaching. Technologies such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, robotics, digital platforms, social media, blockchain, and 3-D printing ...

This paper asks whether explanations of one's workplace and economic institutions are valuable in and of themselves. In doing so, it departs from much of the explainability literature in law, computer science, philosophy, and the social sciences, which ...

While research is increasingly investigating gamification in occupational environments, little in-depth analyses focus on understanding employees’ perceptions of gamified work. To address this gap, this paper presents a thematic analysis drawing on ten ...

How do people in a precarious profession leverage technology to grow their business and improve their quality of life? Sex workers sit at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities and make up a sizeable workforce: the United Nations estimates ...