Jinghui Cheng
@jinghui-cheng.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Polytechnique Montreal. HCI researcher working on creativity and collaboration, AI-mediated or not. Canada Research Chair in UX Design for Data-driven Systems.
Power dynamics have a strong impact on how well designers and end-users are included in FLOSS communities. How do these power dynamics work? How can we make meaningful changes? Our #CSCW2025 paper explores these topics.
If you can't download it from ACM DL, preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2504.15494
If you can't download it from ACM DL, preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2504.15494
"Ohhh, He's the Boss!": Unpacking Power Dynamics Among Developers, Designers, and End-Users in FLOSS Usability
Addressing usability in free, libre, and open-source software (FLOSS) is a challenging issue, particularly due to a long-existing "by developer, for developer" mentality. Engaging designers and end-us...
arxiv.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Power dynamics have a strong impact on how well designers and end-users are included in FLOSS communities. How do these power dynamics work? How can we make meaningful changes? Our #CSCW2025 paper explores these topics.
If you can't download it from ACM DL, preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2504.15494
If you can't download it from ACM DL, preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2504.15494
Reposted by Jinghui Cheng
Now at #CSCW2025! The Open Source Community workshop is exploring the human side of open source collaboration, from navigating power dynamics among developers, designers, and users to managing interdisciplinary multi project teams.
October 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Now at #CSCW2025! The Open Source Community workshop is exploring the human side of open source collaboration, from navigating power dynamics among developers, designers, and users to managing interdisciplinary multi project teams.
I had the pleasure to have presented our work for understanding and strengthening designer-developer collaboration in this evolving software development landscape at #CSCW2025, done with Shurui Zhou and our students: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/.... If you missed the talk, you can still read the paper!
Who is to Blame: A Comprehensive Review of Challenges and Opportunities in Designer-Developer Collaboration | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Software development relies on effective collaboration between Software Development
Engineers (SDEs) and User eXperience Designers (UXDs) to create software products
of high quality and usability. Whi...
dl.acm.org
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I had the pleasure to have presented our work for understanding and strengthening designer-developer collaboration in this evolving software development landscape at #CSCW2025, done with Shurui Zhou and our students: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/.... If you missed the talk, you can still read the paper!
If you want to know how playful experience can inform our understanding of human-AI relationship, and you missed Nik's great talk of our paper at #CSCW2025, there is still chance to read it! I ensure you it's going to be entertaining and at the same time provocative. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
October 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
If you want to know how playful experience can inform our understanding of human-AI relationship, and you missed Nik's great talk of our paper at #CSCW2025, there is still chance to read it! I ensure you it's going to be entertaining and at the same time provocative. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...