In January 2020, team member Prof. Morgan Vigil-Hayes presented a “Wireless 101” talk at the NSF Technical Workshop titled “Wireless and Network Performance Measurement, Protocol Tuning, and Design Improvement for Small Campuses / Tribal Colleges / Universities / Community Colleges” at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Our work on Twitter during the 2018 midterm election and how social media campaigns like #NativeVote influenced the representation of Native people was published in the Indian Country Today.
In the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, a record number of Native American candidates ran for office at all levels of government. To better understand how these 104 candidates intersected with Indigenous political issues and movements to increase Native American voter turnout, we study 723,269 tweets about or by these candidates Read more…
Human-computer interaction is dominated by urban spaces, particularly superstar cities that have become hubs of education and technological innovation. In many ways, this is natural for HCI: These cities, such as San Francisco and Boston, are home to most major tech companies and universities, as well as the majority of Read more…
Our work on PuebloConnect has been featured in the Technology Trends section July/August 2019 Social Work Today.
Communities in Indian Country experience severe behavioral health inequities. Based on recent research investigating scalable behavioral health interventions and therapeutic best practices for Native American (NA) communities, we propose ARORA, a social and emotional learning intervention delivered over a networked mobile game that uses geosocial gaming mechanisms enhanced with augmented Read more…
Northern Arizona University has published a great article about our work. Please read the article Bridging the ‘digital divide’: NAU researcher using innovative technology, social science to improve lives in underserved communities.
Team member Prof. Morgan Vigil-Hayes presented “Community Networks for Challenged Environments” to the Computer Science Department at University of New Mexico, November 2018.