Leah Ajmani
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Leah Ajmani
@leahajmani.bsky.social
CS PhD candidate at GroupLens Lab, UMN
MEng, BA philosophy, comp sci @ 🌽ell
yoga teacher, dog mom, aspiring matriarch of AI ethics
Our paper won an Honorable Mention at #chi2025! We call for CHI researchers to fundamentally shift away from our status quo of undermining the epistemic authority of marginalized users @michaelann.bsky.social @taliabhatt.itch.io @nusealab.bsky.social
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
Conference Programs
programs.sigchi.org
April 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Got a bluesky account just to plug this #CHI25 preprint that I got to write with @taliabhatt.itch.io and @michaelann.bsky.social.

"We ask: what does an orientation of HCI research towards fighting epistemic injustice look like?"

arxiv.org/abs/2501.14648
Moving Towards Epistemic Autonomy: A Paradigm Shift for Centering Participant Knowledge
Justice, epistemology, and marginalization are rich areas of study in HCI. And yet, we repeatedly find platforms and algorithms that push communities further into the margins. In this paper, we propos...
arxiv.org
January 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM