Conference Papers

  1. Gabriella Thompson, Lynn Dombrowski, and Angela D. R. Smith. 2025. Embracing Social Justice within a Computing Curriculum to Foster Social Change. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), April 26-May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA,17 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713125
  2. Angela D. R. Smith, Gianna Williams, Gabriella Thompson, and Alexandra To. 2025. Constructing a Community of Play: Black Sims Players and Game Modding. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 6, Article GAMES014 (October 2025), 30 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3748609
  3. Ebtesam Al-Haque*, Gabriella Thompson*, Angela D. R. Smith, Brittany Johnson. 2025. An Investigation into Black and Brown Communities' Engagement with Data & Technology. In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA


Posters and Works-in-Progress

  1. Lisa Egede, Ebtesam Al Haque, Gabriella Thompson, Alicia Boyd, Angela D. R. Smith, and Brittany Johnson. 2025. Exploring Culturally Informed AI Assistants: A Comparative Study of ChatBlackGPT and ChatGPT. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 242, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3720136
  2. Gabriella Thompson, Nissi Otoo, Jaden Christopher Fisher, Irene Sibi, Angela D. R. Smith, and Ihudiya Finda Ogbonnaya-Ogburu. 2024. Technology Use in the Black Church: Perspectives of Black Church Leaders Preliminary Findings. In Companion of the 2024 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion ’24),
  3. Gabriella Thompson, Ebtesam Al Haque, Paulette Blanc, Meme Styles, Denae Ford, Angela D.R. Smith, Brittany Johnson-Matthews. 2024. An Investigation of Experiences Engaging the Margins in Data-Centric Innovation. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing.