Lynn
Dombrowski

General Information

Email:
goblyn@gatech.edu
Phone:
404-894-3152
Location - Building:
TSRB
Location - Room:
315
Roles:
Professor (any rank)
Primary Unit:
School of Interactive Computing

Details

Degrees with subject and Postdoc Experience:
Degree Type
Ph.D
Subject
Informatics
Year
2015
Institution
University of California, Irvine
Location
Irvine, California, USA
Degree Type
M.S.
Subject
Human Computer Interaction and Design
Year
2010
Institution
Indiana University
Location
Bloomington, Indiana
Statement of Research Interests:

I use design and empiric methods to explore how computing technologies might address social inequality. In research, I study, design, and prototype human-centered technologies for intervening in large systemic social issues, like social and economic inequalities (e.g., hunger; wage violations). My work contributes to the fields of human-computer interaction, ubiquitous and social computing, and design. The goal of such work is to understand the limitations and strengths of applying design methods to contemporary social issues. Such work produces analytic, theoretic, and pragmatic contributions within HCI to deepen the field’s understanding of how information and communication technologies may foster and inhibit social change. Given these interests and commitments, I explore themes of power, empowerment, politics, ethics, values, advocacy, and social justice within the context of the design and use of sociotechnical systems.
 

Statement of Teaching Interests:

I am interested in teaching topics about Human-Computer Interaction, Design Theory, Ethics, Values in Design, and Sociotechnical Systems. 

Selection of recent research, scholarly, and creative activities:

Here are my most recent publications since 2025: 

Linda Huber, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Alicia DeVrio, Jensine Raihan, Cella M Sum, Lynn Dombrowski, Justine Zhang, Christoph B Becker, Lilly Irani, P M Krafft, and Margaret Hughes. 2025. From Tech Lash to Tech Fash: Strategic Reflections on a Decade of Collective Organizing in Computing. In Adjunct Proceedings of the Sixth Decennial Aarhus Conference: Computing X Crisis (AAR Adjunct '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 26, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3737609.3747097


Cindy Kaiying Lin, Lynn Dombrowski, and Shaowen Bardzell. 2025. Whose, Which, and What Crisis? A Critical Analysis of Crisis in Computing Supply Chains. In Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis (AAR '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 56–70. https://doi.org/10.1145/3744169.3744179

Jieyu Zhou, Rui Shen, Yue You, Carl DiSalvo, Lynn Dombrowski, and Christopher J. MacLellan. 2025. Improving Public Service Chatbot Design and Civic Impact: Investigation of Citizens’ Perceptions of a Metro City 311 Chatbot. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2143–2155. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735831


Gabriella Thompson, Lynn Dombrowski, and Angela D. R. Smith. 2025. Embracing Social Justice within a Computing Curriculum to Foster Social Change. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 586, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713125