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The leveraging of data and information to empower communities, challenge systemic injustices and drive social change through collaborative, bottom-up approaches that prioritize local knowledge and community participation.

First Paper Friday. Yongjie Sha, PhD Student. Meeting People Where They Are: Building Community Centered Care with Smartphone Facilitated Response to Overdoses. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

First Paper Friday: Yongjie Sha

02/14/2025

Sha’s paper studies the impact of a community-driven effort to reverse overdoses through a smartphone app. 

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Matthew Bui

Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information and Assistant Professor of Digital Studies Institute, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

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