Publications

I publish in the fields of human computer interaction, design and health equity. My work follows the tradition of design research in that I both examine and prototype design-based interventions while also theoretically framing design’s impact and influence on society.

Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings

Christina N. Harrington, Paola Favela, Cella Sum, Sarah Fox, and Lynn Dombrowski. 2024. The Denizen Designer Project: Practices, Relationships, and Principles of Activist-Led Design. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW2, Article 358 (November 2024). pdf

Jay Cunningham, Su Lin Blodgett, Michael Madaio, Hal Daumé Iii, Christina Harrington, and Hanna Wallach. 2024. Understanding the Impacts of Language Technologies’ Performance Disparities on African American Language Speakers. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, pages 12826–12833, Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Lisa Egede, Leslie Coney, Brittany Johnson, Christina Harrington, and Denae Ford. 2024. "For Us By Us": Intentionally Designing Technology for Lived Black Experiences. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 3210–3224. doi

Nari Johnson, Sanika Moharana, Christina Harrington, Nazanin Andalibi, Hoda Heidari, and Motahhare Eslami. 2024. The Fall of an Algorithm: Characterizing the Dynamics Toward Abandonment. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 337–358. doi

Zaidat Ibrahim, Pegah Karimi, Aqueasha Martin-Hammond, Christina Harrington, and Katie A. Siek. 2024. What Do We Do? Lessons Learned from Conducting Systematic Reviews to Improve HCI Dissemination. In Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 541, 1–8. doi

Christina N. Harrington, Aashaka Desai, Aaleyah Lewis, Sanika Moharana, Anne Spencer Ross, and Jennifer Mankoff. 2023. Working at the Intersection of Race, Disability and Accessibility. In Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 26, 1–18. doi

Alexandra To, Angela D. R. Smith, Dilruba Showkat, Adinawa Adjagbodjou, and Christina Harrington. 2023. Flourishing in the Everyday: Moving Beyond Damage-Centered Design in HCI for BIPOC Communities. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 917–933. doi

Robin N. Brewer, Christina Harrington, and Courtney Heldreth. 2023. Envisioning Equitable Speech Technologies for Black Older Adults. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 379–388. doi

Harrington, C.N., Egede, L. (2023). Trust, Comfort, and Reliability: Understanding Black Older Adults’ Perceptions of Chatbot Design for Health Information Seeking. In Proc of 2023 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023). [pdf] *acceptance rate 28.9%

Sum, C., Lin, J., Bennett, C.L., Tran, AT., Kuo R., Harrington, C., Fox, S. E. (2023). Translation as (Re)mediation: How Ethnic Community-Based Organizations Negotiate Legitimacy. In Proc of 2023 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023). *acceptance rate 28.9%

Jelen, B., Lazar, A., Harrington, C.N., Pradhan, A., Siek, K.A. (2023). Speaking from Experience: Co-designing E-textile Projects with Older Adult Fiber Crafters. In Proc of 17th Internaional Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2023). doi *acceptance rate: 23%

Bosley, B., Harrington, C.N., Morris, S., Le Dantec, C. (2022). Healing Justice: A Framework for Personal or Collective Healing and Well-being from (System)ic Traumas. In Proc. of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’22). ACM, NY. doi BEST PAPER HONORABLE MENTION *acceptance rate: 21%

Harrington, C.N., Martin-Hammond, A., Bray, K. (2022). Exploring Identitiy as a Variable of Health Technology Research for Older Adults: A Systematic Review. In Proc. of the 2022 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022). *acceptance rate: 24.7%

Bray, K., Harrington, C.N., Parker, A., Diakhate, N., Roberts, J. (2022). Radical Futures: Supporting Community-Led Design Engagements through an Afrofuturist Speculative Design Toolkit. In Proc. of the 2022 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022). [link]

Harrington, C.N., Garg, R., Woodward, A., Williams, D. (2022). “It's Kind of Like Code-Switching”: Black Older Adults' Experiences with a Voice Assistant for Health Information Seeking. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022). [link] [pdf]

Harrington, C.N., Klassen, S., Rankin, Y.A. (2022). “All that You Touch, You Change”: Expanding the Canon of Speculative Design Towards Black Futuring. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022). [link]

Bray, K., Harrington, C.N. (2021). Speculative Blackness: Considering Afrofuturism in the Creation of Inclusive Speculative Design Probes. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY. [link]

Christina N. Harrington and Tawanna R. Dillahunt. 2021. Eliciting Tech Futures Among Black Young Adults: A Case Study of Remote Speculative Co-Design. In CHI ’21: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing, May 2021, Online Conference. ACM, NewYork, NY, USA, 23 pages. [link] [pdf]

Christina N. Harrington, Erete, S., & Anne Piper, A.M. 2019. Deconstructing Community-Based Collaborative Design: Towards More Equitable Participatory Design Engagements. In Proceedings of Computer Supported Collaborative Work, 3, CSCW, Article 216 (November 2019), 23 pages. [link] [pdf]

Harrington, C.N., Borgos-Rodriguez, K., Piper, A.M. 2019. Engaging Low-Income African-American Older Adults in Health Discussions through Community-based Design Workshops. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI ’19 (Glasgow, UK, 2019). [pdf]

Harrington, C.N., Wilcox, L. Connelly, K., Rogers, W.A., Sanford, J. (2018, May). Designing Health and Fitness Apps with Older Adults: Examining the Value of Experience-Based Co-Design. In Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, New York, New York. [pdf]

Harrington, C.N., Piper, A.M. (2018, May). Informing Design through Sociocultural Values: Co-Creation with Low-Income African-American Older Adults. Workshop on Designing for Diversity. PervasiveHealth Conference 2018, New York, New York. [pdf]

Harrington, C. N., Hare, K. J., & Rogers, W. A. (2017, October). Developing a Quick-Start Guide to Aid Older Adults in Interacting with Gesture-Based Video Games. In Proceedings of the 2017 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. [pdf]

Wagner, B., Liu, E., Shaw, S., Iakovlev, G., Zhou, L., Harrington, C., Abowd, G., Yoon, C., Kumar, S., Murphy, S., Spring, B. & Nahum- Shani, I. (2017, September). ewrapper: Operationalizing engagement strategies in mHealth. UbiComp 2017. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp. 790-798). [pdf]

Harrington, C. N., Ruzic, L., & Sanford, J.A. (2017, July). Universally Accessible mHealth Apps for Older Adults: Towards increasing adoption and sustained engagement. In International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 3-12). Springer International Publishing. Proceedings of HCI International 2017. [pdf]

Ruzic, L., Harrington, C. N., Sanford, J.A. (2017). Design and Evaluation of Mobile Interfaces for an Aging Population. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, Nice, France, pp. 305-309.

Liu, Y. E., Harrington, C., Melgen, S., & Sanford, J. (2016, July). GatePal–Universal Design for Airport Navigation to Allow Departing Travelers to Stay Informed. In International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 586-594). Springer International Publishing.

Harrington, C. N., Hartley, J. Q., Mitzner, T. L., & Rogers, W. A. (2015, July). Assessing Older Adults’ Usability Challenges Using Kinect-based Exergames. In Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for Everyday Life (pp. 488-499). Springer International Publishing. Proceedings of HCI International 2015. [pdf]

Journal Articles

Young, M., Ehsan, U., Singh, R., Tafesse, E., Gilman, M., Harrington, C., & Metcalf, J. (2024). Participation versus scale: Tensions in the practical demands on participatory AI. First Monday, 29(4). [doi] [pdf]

Moorhead, J.B., Herbert, B.M., Abebe, K.Z., Harrington, C.N., Miller, E., Lindau, S.T., Magnani, J.W., Johnson, A.E. (2022). Internet access and cardiovascular death in the United States. American Heart Journal Plus: Cardiology Research and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahjo.2022.100200.

Ostrowski, A. K., Harrington, C. N., Breazeal, C., Park, H. W. (2021). Personal Narratives in Technology Design: The Value of Sharing Older Adults’ Stories in the Design of Social Robots. Front. Robot. AI 8:716581. [link]

Ruzic, L., Harrington, C. N., Sanford, J. A. (2017). Universal design mobile interface guidelines for mobile health and wellness apps for an aging population including people aging with disabilities. International Journal on Advances in Software, 10(3&4), pp. 372-384).

Barg-Walkow, L. H., Harrington, C. N., Mitzner, T. L., Hartley, J. Q., Rogers, W. A. (2017). Understanding older adults’ perceptions of and attitudes toward exergames. Gerontechnology Journal, 16(2), pp. 81-90. [pdf]

Harrington, C., Mitzner, T. L., Rogers, W. A. (2015). Understanding the role of technology for meeting the support needs of older adults in the USA with functional limitations. Gerontechnology Journal, 14(1), pp 21-31. [pdf]

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