Jake Thebault-Spieker

#CSCW2025 My student Yaxuan Yin is be presenting Beyond "Geo"HCI: Exploring Cultural Dimensions of Disparity in OpenStreetMap Road Safety Metadata in Klokkenlang, this morning!

In this paper we unpack surprising 'cultural' dimensions that help describe patterns OpenStreetMap road safety metadata!

If you’re at #CSCW2025, come on up to Brekken to see my student Yaxuan Yin give her talk on contributor dynamics in Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, and how the feed into coverage disparities, even despite a tool that explicitly helps direct contributor effort! Starting shortly!

Come see my student Yaxuan talk in Bekken! #CSCW2025

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Good morning #cscw! My student Yaxuan Yin will be presenting in the Open Source Communities session, at 11a, in Belen on Level 3! She’s presenting on the contribution dynamics in Humanitarian OpenStreetMap – even when OSM focuses work, we still see population-density based coverage disparities.

Pokémon Go’s creator is teaming up with satellite companies to make a digital twin of the Earth. [Image: The pillars of Project Orbion. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/20250908_1040252.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] Even before Niantic sold its Pokémon-powered gaming b...

Stuff like this sure seems like it sets up a ripe potential for geoHCI to lean into the human aspects of geography: place, meaning, interaction, above and beyond "spatial"

www.theverge.com/news/774086/...

I’m coming out of a social media hibernation, to try this out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯