

Yen-Chia Hsu, Himanshu Verma, Andrea Mauri, Illah Nourbakhsh, and Alessandro Bozzon. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. Smell Pittsburgh: Engaging Community Citizen Science for Air Quality. Yen-Chia Hsu, Jennifer Cross, Paul Dille, Michael Tasota, Beatrice Dias, Randy Sargent, Ting-Hao Huang, and Illah Nourbakhsh. When Human-Computer Interaction Meets Community Citizen Science. ACM IUI Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, USA. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, USA.īest Paper Honorable Mention Award (Top 2.5%, 7 out of 282 submissions).Ģ019. International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, USA.īest Paper Honorable Mention Award (Top 5%).Ģ017. Webby People's Voice Award, Best Use of Video or Moving Image.Ģ014.

The National Golden Award for Architecture, Taiwan. Third Prize, National Country House Design Competition.Ģ009. Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. Outstanding Student Academic Achievement.Ģ005, 2006, 2007. Released Open Source Tools, Datasets, and Teaching Materials.Refereed Posters, Works-in-Progress, and Workshop Papers.My family name (Hsu) is hard to pronounce since the English system does not have such types of vocalization. In Taiwan, when using the Wade-Giles transcription system, we put a dash between our given name's characters.Īlso, in Traditional Mandarin Chinese, we put the family name before the given name, which is different from the English naming conventions.įor pronunciation, Yen is like the Japanese yen, and Chia is like "ja" when saying Ninja. My English name (Yen-Chia Hsu) comes from the Wade-Giles transcription of my name in Traditional Mandarin Chinese. Previously, I received my Master's degree in tangible interaction design in 2012 from the School of Architecture at CMU, where I studied and built prototypes of interactive robots and wearable devices.īefore CMU, I earned my dual Bachelor's degree in both architecture and computer science in 2010 at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.Ībout my name, my given name is Yen-Chia, not Yen. degree in Robotics in 2018 from the Robotics Institute at CMU, where I conducted research on using technology to empower local citizens and communities. I am an Assistant Professor at the Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam.įormerly, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Sustainable Design Engineering, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft, the Netherlands.īefore TU Delft, I was a Project Scientist in the CREATE Lab at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA. In my research, I apply crowdsourcing and data visualization to engage communities in providing and exploring data.Īlso, I utilize machine learning, computer vision, and data science to assist communities in extracting and explaining patterns in multiple types of large-scale data.įor people who speak Mandarin Chinese, if you are interested in the CCS concept, here is the video recording of my previous talk (in Mandarin Chinese) in the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan on early 2021.Īlso, here is another video recording of a talk (in English) that I gave to the air quality working group at the European Citizen Science Association on late 2021. In this way, CCS advances the current science-oriented method by emphasizing continued community engagement after technology interventions. I have proposed an alternative, Community Citizen Science (CCS), to extend this science-oriented method to a hyper-local scale.ĬCS aims to empower communities and scientists to produce scientific knowledge, represent their voices, address local concerns, and shape more equitable power relationships. Traditionally, scientists lead research to engage citizens in tackling environmental and social issues (e.g., air pollution) on a large scale. Specifically, my research is focused on Community-Empowered Artificial Intelligence (AI), where I co-design, implement, deploy, and evaluate interactive AI systems that empower communities, especially in addressing environmental and social issues.
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I research how to embed technology in hyper-local contexts to facilitate civic engagement and community empowerment. I am a computer scientist with an architectural design background.
