Christopher A. Le Dantec

I am a Ph.D. candidate in my fourth year of the Human-Centered Computing program at Georgia Tech. I am pursuing research that examines how technologies we build effect social change. This approach weaves elements of activist research and participatory design around the view that human-values are expressed through technical systems and artifacts. My aim is to understand the role technology plays as an agent of change within diverse communities and among a plurality of human-values. Built into this orientation is a commitment to understanding the multifarious ways technologies participate as actors in social discourse.

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Research
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Odds n' Ends

Tales from a Past Life...
(...as an Interaction Designer)

Peer-Reviewed Publications

[pdf] D. Reilly, S. Voida, M. McKeon, C. A. Le Dantec, P. Verma, C. Forslund, W. K. Edwards, E. D. Mynatt, and A. Mazalek. Space Matters: Physical-Digital and Physical-Virtual Co-Design in the InSpace Project. IEEE Pervasive Computing, in press.

[pdf] C. A. Le Dantec. “Situated Design: Toward an Understanding of Design Through Social Creation and Cultural Cognition.” In C&C '09: Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity & Cognition, Berkeley, CA, October 27–30 2009.

[chapter] C. A. Le Dantec and E. Y. Do. “The Mechanisms of Value Transfer in Design Meetings.” In J. McDonnell and P. Lloyd, editors, About: Designing - Analysing Design Meetings. Taylor and Francis, Forthcoming 2009.

[pdf] C. A. Le Dantec, E. S. Poole, and S. P. Wyche. “Values as Lived Experience: Evolving Value Sensitive Design in Support of Value Discovery.” CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems, pages 1141–1150, New York, NY, USA, 2009. ACM.

[pdf] C. A. Le Dantec and E. Y. Do. “The Mechanisms of Value Transfer in Design Meetings.” Design Studies, 30(2):119–137, March 2009.

[pdf] C. A. Le Dantec and W. K. Edwards. “The View From the Trenches: Organization, Power, and Technology at Two Nonprofit Homeless Outreach Centers.” In In: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW08), pages 589–598, New York, NY, USA, 2008. ACM.

[pdf] E. S. Poole, C. A. Le Dantec, J. R. Eagan, and W. K. Edwards. “Reflecting on the Invisible: Understanding End-User Perceptions of Ubiquitous Computing.” In: 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. pages 192–201, New York, NY, USA, 2008. ACM.

[pdf] C. A. Le Dantec and W. K. Edwards. “Designs on Dignity: Perceptions of Technology Among the Homeless.” In: CHI '08: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. pages 627–636, New York, NY, USA, 2008. ACM. Awarded Best Paper

Refereed Workshop Papers

[pdf] C. A. Le Dantec. “Legitimacy at the Outskirts: Categories, Use, and Adoption in Marginal Communities.” In UbiComp '09: Workshop: Globicomp, Orlando, FL, September 29–October 3 2009. ACM Press.

[pdf] C. A. Le Dantec and E. S. Poole. “The Value of Pictures: Photo Eliciation Techniques for Engaging Users.” Position paper for the workshop on Values, Value, and Worth at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008) CHI '08, Florence, Italy. April 5–10, 2008.

Refereed Panels

mc schraefel, P. André, R. White, D. Tan, T. Berners-Lee, S. Consolvo, R. Jacobs, I. Kohane, C. A. Le Dantec, L. Mamykina, G. Marsden, B. Shneiderman, P. Szolovits, and D. Weitzner. “Interacting with ehealth: towards grand challenges for HCI.” In CHI EA '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, pages 3309–3312, New York, NY, USA, 2009. ACM.

Magazine Articles

[pdf] C. A. Le Dantec. “Feature: Life at the Margins: Assessing the Role of Technology for the Urban Homeless.” interactions, 15(5):24–27, 2008.

[in-press] C. A. Le Dantec. “What Technology Says.” Ambidextrous. To Appear Fall 2009

Invited Talks

“Fighting the Digital Divide.” Community Voice Mail annual conference. Seattle, WA. 3 October, 2008.

Seminar: “Technology and Homelessness: Touch points and Values” University of Washington. Seattle WA. 2 October, 2008.

“HCI practice in Prague.” IFIP TC-13 Annual Meeting. Prague, Czech Republic. 2 March, 2002.

Grants an Honors

NSF HCC Small Grant (advisor Keith Edwards, PI)

College of Computing Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award, 2008–2009.

Microsoft Research Graduate Fellow, 2009–2011

School of Interactive Computing, Ph.D. Student Research Excellence Commendation, 2008

Foley Scholar, 2008–2009

Best of CHI 2008, for Designs on Dignity: Perceptions of Technology Among the Homeless

Service

ACM & SIGCHI Member, 2001–present

Planning Committee and Poster Session Co-curator for the Computing at the Margins Symposium

Reviewed for International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2009

Reviewed submissions for CHI, CSCW, UBICOMP, & UIST. 2008–present

Student Volunteer @ CHI08 in Florence IT.