Collective imaginaries for the futures of care work

Yiying Wu; Jung-Joo Lee; Ajit Pillai; Janghee Cho; Thida Sacathep; Naseem Ahmadpour; Virpi Roto; Jiashuo Liu; Mouna Sawan; Dongjin Song; Martina Caic; Lucas Cheng; Sarah Kettley; Renxuan Liu; Luis Soares; Kazjon Grace; Thomas Astell-Burt

doi:10.1145/3678884.3681838

Collective imaginaries for the futures of care work

Yiying Wu^*, Jung-Joo Lee, Ajit Pillai, Janghee Cho, Thida Sacathep, Naseem Ahmadpour, Virpi Roto, Jiashuo Liu, Mouna Sawan, Dongjin Song, Martina Caic, Lucas Cheng, Sarah Kettley, Renxuan Liu, Luis Soares, Kazjon Grace, Thomas Astell-Burt

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Care work, encompassing physical, emotional, and developmental support, is essential yet often undervalued reproductive labour within capitalist systems. Advancements in automation, robotics, AI, and mixed reality are poised to alter care work, raising questions to explore their roles in reshaping caregiving practice, the workforce, workplaces, and ecological care systems. This workshop aims to challenge three dominant narratives surrounding emerging technology and future care work: technology as a solution to the care crisis, aggressive technology investment in the growing care economy, and overlook of the ‘end of (care) jobs’ in post-work discourse. Drawing on CSCW and HCI research, this workshop investigates the complex sociotechnical ecologies of care, envisioning future scenarios through participatory speculative design. By fostering dialogue among diverse participants, the workshop aims to explore the potential impacts of emerging technologies on care work, with a focus on holistic employee wellbeing, worker rights, equity, ethical integration, and socioeconomic dynamics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CSCW Companion '24: Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Editors	Michael Bernstein, Amy Bruckman, Ujwal Gadiraju, Aaron Halfaker, Xiaojuan Ma, Fabiano Pinatti, Miriam Redi, David Ribes, Saiph Savage, Amy Zhang
Publisher	ACM
Pages	732-735
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400711145
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3678884.3681838
Publication status	Published - 13 Nov 2024
Event	The 27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing - Costa Rica Convention Center, San José, Costa Rica Duration: 9 Nov 2024 → 13 Nov 2024 Conference number: 27 https://cscw.acm.org/2024/

Conference

Conference	The 27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Abbreviated title	CSCW 2024
Country/Territory	Costa Rica
City	San José
Period	9/11/24 → 13/11/24
Internet address	https://cscw.acm.org/2024/

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

human-centred computing
Human-computer interaction
care work
sociotechnical imaginaries
reproductive labour
future of care
future of work

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Wu, Y., Lee, J.-J., Pillai, A., Cho, J., Sacathep, T., Ahmadpour, N., Roto, V., Liu, J., Sawan, M., Song, D., Caic, M., Cheng, L., Kettley, S., Liu, R., Soares, L., Grace, K., & Astell-Burt, T. (2024). Collective imaginaries for the futures of care work. In M. Bernstein, A. Bruckman, U. Gadiraju, A. Halfaker, X. Ma, F. Pinatti, M. Redi, D. Ribes, S. Savage, & A. Zhang (Eds.), CSCW Companion '24: Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 732-735). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678884.3681838

Wu, Yiying ; Lee, Jung-Joo ; Pillai, Ajit et al. / Collective imaginaries for the futures of care work. CSCW Companion '24: Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. editor / Michael Bernstein ; Amy Bruckman ; Ujwal Gadiraju ; Aaron Halfaker ; Xiaojuan Ma ; Fabiano Pinatti ; Miriam Redi ; David Ribes ; Saiph Savage ; Amy Zhang. ACM, 2024. pp. 732-735

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Collective imaginaries for the futures of care work. / Wu, Yiying; Lee, Jung-Joo; Pillai, Ajit et al.
CSCW Companion '24: Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. ed. / Michael Bernstein; Amy Bruckman; Ujwal Gadiraju; Aaron Halfaker; Xiaojuan Ma; Fabiano Pinatti; Miriam Redi; David Ribes; Saiph Savage; Amy Zhang. ACM, 2024. p. 732-735.

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Wu Y, Lee JJ, Pillai A, Cho J, Sacathep T, Ahmadpour N et al. Collective imaginaries for the futures of care work. In Bernstein M, Bruckman A, Gadiraju U, Halfaker A, Ma X, Pinatti F, Redi M, Ribes D, Savage S, Zhang A, editors, CSCW Companion '24: Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. ACM. 2024. p. 732-735 doi: 10.1145/3678884.3681838

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