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Leah Ajmani

@leahajmani.bsky.social

CS PhD candidate at GroupLens Lab, UMN MEng, BA philosophy, comp sci @ 🌽ell yoga teacher, dog mom, aspiring matriarch of AI ethics

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Leah Ajmani @leahajmani.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Our paper won an Honorable Mention at #chi2025! We call for CHI researchers to fundamentally shift away from our status quo of undermining the epistemic authority of marginalized users @michaelann.bsky.social @taliabhatt.itch.io @nusealab.bsky.social programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

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Leah Ajmani @leahajmani.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Got a bluesky account just to plug this #CHI25 preprint that I got to write with @taliabhatt.itch.io and @michaelann.bsky.social. "We ask: what does an orientation of HCI research towards fighting epistemic injustice look like?" arxiv.org/abs/2501.14648

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Moving Towards Epistemic Autonomy: A Paradigm Shift for Centering Participant Knowledge

Justice, epistemology, and marginalization are rich areas of study in HCI. And yet, we repeatedly find platforms and algorithms that push communities further into the margins. In this paper, we propos...

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