My research interests include: co-designing equitable public transit futures; leveraging human centered methods for climate change literacy; and adapting HCI methods for everyday contexts.

Publications

HCI, Mobility Justice, and Migration in the Face of Climate Crisis. (2024). Williams, L. K., Alim, R. A., Talhouk, R., Wong-Villacrés, M., Kirabo, L., Maitland, C., Harris, T., Sharma, V., Das, D., Semaan, B., Ahmed, S. I., and Soden, R. In Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 744–747. [ACM DL]

Challenging Ableism: A Critical Turn Toward Disability Justice in HCI. (2024). Sum, C. M., Spektor, F., Alharbi, R., Baltaxe-Admony, L. B., Devine, E., Dixon, H. A., Duval, J., Eagle, T., Elavsky, F., Fernandes, K., Guedes, L. S., Hillman, S., Kameswaran, V., Kirabo, L., Motahar, T., Ringland, K. E., Schaadhardt, A., Scheepmaker, L., and Williamson, A. 2024. XRDS 30, 4 (Summer 2024), 50–55. [ACM DL]

Primarily Undergraduate Institution Faculty. (2024). Dean, V., Kirabo, L., Krause-Levy, S., and Taylor, C. In Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSE ‘24), March 20-23, 2024. [ACM DL]

Dreaming Up Smart Home Futures: A Story Completion Study. (2023). Reig, S., Carter, E.J., Kirabo, L., Fong, T., Steinfeld, A., and Forlizzi, J. In 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN ‘23), Aug 28 - Aug 31, 2023 [IEEE]

Forging a Path Towards Equity in Smart Public Transit Systems (2023). Kirabo, L. (Doctoral dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University).

Priorities, Technology & Power: Co-Designing an Inclusive Transit Agenda in Kampala, Uganda. (2021). Kirabo, L., Carter, E.J., Barry, D., and Steinfeld A. In 2021 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘21), May 8-13, 2021. Yokohama, Japan. [ACM DL | PDF | Video Presentation]

The Power of the Blue Tick: Ugandans’ experiences and engagement on Twitter at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. (2021). Kirabo, L., Namara, M., and McNeese, N. * In 2021 ACM African Human-Computer Interaction Conference (AfriCHI ‘21)*, March 8-12, 2021. Maputo, Mozambique. [ACM DL | PDF]

Following the Trail of Citational Justice: Critically Examining Knowledge Production in HCI. (2021). Citational Justice Collective, León, G.M., Kirabo, L., Marisol Wong-Villacres, M., Karusala, N., Kumar, N., Bidwell, N., Reynolds-Cuéllar, P., Borah, P.P., Garg, R., Oswal, S.K., Chuanromanee, T., and Sharma, V. In Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ‘21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 360–363. [ACM DL]

Smart Agents and Devices of Today and Tomorrow: Surveying Use and Desires. (2021). Reig, S., Carter, E.J., Kirabo, L., Fong, T., Steinfeld, A., and Forlizzi, J. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ’21), November 9–11, 2021, Virtual Event, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages.

Building Anti-Racist Futures at the CMU HCII: Recruiting BIPOC Graduate Students: Virtual Recruitment Event Design. (2021). Principe Cruz, E., Kirabo, L., Carrington, P., & Hammer, J. (In press). BIPOC Literary Journal: The Colors We Carry.

“Twitter, COVID-19, and disability: what worked and what didn’t.” (2021). Valencia, S. and Kirabo, L.. XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students 28, no. 2 (Winter 2021), 20–23. [ACM DL]

Disability and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Using Twitter to Understand Accessibility during Rapid Societal Transition. (2020). Gleason, C., Valencia, S., Kirabo, L., Wu, J., Guo, A., Carter, E.J., Bigham, J.P., Bennett, C.L., and Pavel, A. ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. (ASSETS ’20), October 26–28, 2020. Athens, Greece. [ACM DL]

A Long-Term Evaluation of Adaptive Interface Design for Mobile Transit Information. (2020). Romero, O.J., Haig, A., Kirabo, L., Yang, Q., Zimmerman, J., Tomasic, A., and Steinfeld, A. In 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI ’20), October 5–8, 2020. Oldenburg, Germany. [ACM DL] {Best Paper Honorable Mention}

“You are asking me to pay for my legs”: Exploring the Experiences, Perceptions, and Aspirations of Informal Public Transportation Users in Kampala and Kigali. (2020).Kirabo, L., Carter, E.J., and Steinfeld A. In ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS ’20), June 15–17, 2020. Guayaquil, Ecuador. [ACM DL | PDF | Video Presentation]

““Can You Make Me New Legs?” Exploring Technology Opportunities by Identifying Power Dynamics within the Disability Ecosystem in Uganda”. (2020). Kirabo, L., and Steinfeld, A. HCI Across Borders. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

“The one about resilience, energy, culture, and crafting.”(2019). Kirabo, L.XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students 26, no. 2 : 60-63. [ACM DL | PDF]

“Global cultures and computing.” (2019). Kirabo, L., XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students 26, no. 2: 8-9. [ACM DL | PDF]

““Our perspective matters.” Using Universal Design Goals to Guide Technology Design in the Global South”. (2019). Kirabo, L., ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Doctoral Consortium. . [SIGACCESS Newsletter]

“HCI4D through the Lens of Assistive Technology Research Concepts”. (2018). Kirabo, L. ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies. Poster.