Foley Scholar Winner and Finalists Presentations Spring 2024 ; Envisioning Technology-Mediated Futures of Care Work (Bhat) ; Choropleth Maps: How They Can Trick You and What You Can Do About It (Narechania) ; Computing for Mental Health Equity: Centering Identity and Power in Technology-Mediated Support (Pendse) ; Designing with Ephemera: Queering Tangible Interaction in Archival Experiences (Riggs)

Presented on March 7, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. in the Technology Square Research Building, 1st floor ballroom. ; The 2023 PhD Foley Scholar Award Winner, Karthik Seetharama Bhat, is a Human-Centered Computing PhD candidate at Georgia Tech. He is advised by Prof. Neha Kumar in the Tandem Lab. His research is situated at the intersections of caregiving, care work, and conversational agents and user interfaces in HCI. ; Arpit Narechania is a 2023 PhD Foley Scholar Award Finalist. He is a 5th year Ph.D student in Computer Science at Georgia Tech advised by Alex Endert. His research interests include designing visual interfaces that guide users towards their goals and developing visualization interfaces enhanced with the querying power of natural language. ABSTRACT: When creating choropleth maps, mapmakers often bin (or group) quantitative data values into bins (or groups) to help show that certain areas fall within a similar range of values. For instance, a mapmaker may divide counties into high, middle, and low life expectancy. Yet, different binning methods (e.g., natural breaks, quantile) yield different groupings, wherein the same data can be presented differently depending on how it is split into bins. This flexibility can sometimes be (mis)used by journalists to present (false) narratives or by fund managers to (inappropriately) seek additional funding. To mitigate against these dangers, we built a new geospatial visualization tool, Exploropleth. This system lets users upload their own data and interact with the outputs of 18+ established data binning methods, and subsequently compare, customize, and export custom maps. Feedback from cartographers and geographic information system experts highlighted the system’s potential to educate students as well as mapmakers. ; Sachin Pendse is a 2023 PhD Foley Scholar Award Finalist. He is currently a PhD candidate in Human-Centered Computing at Georgia Tech, co-advised by Dr. Munmun De Choudhury as a part of the Social Dynamics and Well-Being Lab and Dr. Neha Kumar as a part ...