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Chioma Chigozie-Okwum

Doctoral Researcher

Role
Doctoral Researcher
In the lab
2022 – present
Projects
Platform Care Work

Participatory design of algorithmic systems

My work highlights the immediacy of recentering user voices in the design of algorithmic systems, by treating feedback elicitation as a socio-technical design problem rather than a data-collection step.

That means designers of data-driven systems have to iteratively scaffold participants in co-design — building people's sense that they can actually contribute to shaping the data and the algorithms underneath, instead of assuming the capacity is already there.

Publications

Published

  • 2026

    Artful reconfiguration: decoupling novelty and design in a computer-saturated world

    Steup, Chigozie-Okwum, Gavade & Baumer · PACM HCI