- Role
- Faculty
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- Platform Care Work
Imagined Futures of GenAI in Education
Labor, care & technology
I study care work and the systems that increasingly organise it — home care, platformic management, and what a relationship-centred account of that labour makes visible that a task-centred one cannot.
My work also runs through critical and speculative design: resistance and oppositional responses to AI, novelty and reconfiguration in a computer-saturated world, and how technologies marketed for a particular population encode assumptions about it.
Publications
Published
- 2026
Artful reconfiguration: decoupling novelty and design in a computer-saturated world
Steup, Chigozie-Okwum, Gavade & Baumer · PACM HCI
- 2026
Reverse engineering as a component of digital ethnography: studying platformic management on Honor
Nam & Steup · CHI 2026 Extended Abstracts
- 2025
The fears, the hopes, the oscillations: a critical analysis of tech startups targeting autism
Wang, Seetharaman, Steup, Su & Ringland · ASSETS 2025
- 2025
Exploring resistance and other oppositional responses to AI
Baumer, Cha, Khovanskaya, Steup, Vertesi & Wong · CSCW 2025 Companion
- 2025
A relationship-centered perspective on home care work
Steup & Jung · PACM HCI 9(7), 1–23
Preprints & work in progress
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Understanding programming and writing instructors’ strategies for responding to generative AI
Steup, Wegrzyn, DiFranzo & Baumer · in preparation · target CHI