Dr. Angela D. R. Smith

Publications

Refereed conference papers [*: equal authorship; †: trainee/mentee]

Peer-reviewed archival conference proceedings are considered a primary publication venue in the field of Human-Centered Computing. These papers are rigorously peer-reviewed. Thus, conference proceedings in Human-Centered Computing are comparable in both content and review process to peer-reviewed journal articles in other journal-based disciplines.

The top-tier venues in HCI research include ACM Conferences, such as Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), Fairness Accountability and Transparency (FAccT), Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), and Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp). CSCW transitioned to a hybrid journal structure and was renamed Proceedings of the ACM: CSCW in 2018. I also publish my research in journals or conferences on information science, social sciences, ethical AI, and AI/machine learning.

[C.16] Ebtesam Al Haque*, Gabriella Thompson*†, Angela D. R. Smith, Brittany Johnson-Matthews. 2025. An Investigation into Black and Brown Communities' Engagement with Data & Technology. In Proceedings of the ACM/AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2025).

[C.15] Tamar Wilner, Rachel Moran, Kayo Mimizuka, Veronica Engle, Jason C. Young, Angela D. R. Smith, and Ahmer Arif. 2025. Rooted Realities: Exploring Community-Based Participatory Approaches to Addressing Misinformation with Rural and BIPOC Individuals. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 7, Article CSCW241 (November 2025), 27 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757422

[C.14] Jiaying Liu, Shuer Zhuo, Xingyu Li, Andrew Dillon, Nora Howell, Angela D. R. Smith, Yan Zhang. From Regulation to Support: Feminist Approaches to Technology-Mediated Emotion Support. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 7, Article CSCW424 (November 2025), 32 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757605

[C.13] Michelle Nashla Turcios, Alicia E. Boyd, Angela D. R. Smith, and Brittany Johnson. 2025. A Preliminary Framework for Intersectionality in ML Pipelines. In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE Companion '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1552–1563. https://doi.org/10.1145/3696630.3728692

[C.12] Bethany Miatta Turay†, Alesandra Baca Vázquez†, Alexandra To, and Angela D. R. Smith. 2025. “I want to let them in”: Exploring Critical Consciousness Development through Roleplay and Reflection in “Papers, Please”. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 41, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3723498.3723797

[C.11] Gabriella Thompson†, Lynn Dombrowski, and Angela D. R. Smith. 2025. Embracing Social Justice within a Computing Curriculum to Foster Social Change. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 586, 1–17. Acceptance Rate: 25.1%. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713125

[C.10] Tiera Tanksley*, Angela D. R. Smith*, Saloni Sharma, and Earl W Huff Jr. 2025. "Ethics is not neutral": Understanding Ethical and Responsible AI Design from the Lenses of Black Youth. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 200, 1–20. Acceptance Rate: 25.1%. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713510

[C.9] Eunhye Grace Ko†, Rotem Landesman, Jason C Young, Ahmer Arif, Katie Davis, and Angela D. R. Smith. 2025. Domain Experts, Design Novices: How Community Practitioners Enact Participatory Design Values. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 800, 1–16. Acceptance Rate: 25.1%. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3714060

[C.8] Mark Diaz, & Angela D. R. Smith. (2024, October). What Makes An Expert? Reviewing How ML Researchers Define" Expert". In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (Vol. 7, pp. 358-370). https://doi.org/10.1609/aies.v7i1.31642

[C.7] Ishita Chordia, Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony, Ashley Boone, Alyssa Sheehan, Lynn Dombrowski, Christopher A Le Dantec, Kathryn E. Ringland, and Angela D. R. Smith. 2024. Social Justice in HCI: A Systematic Literature Review. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 512, 1–33. Acceptance Rate: 25.6%. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642704

[C.6] Rachel Tunis†, Kenneth R. Fleischmann, and Angela D. R. Smith. 2024. Designing for Personalization in Personal Informatics: Barriers and Pragmatic Approaches from the Perspectives of Designers, Developers, and Product Managers. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 584–596. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3661622

[C.5] Ebtesam Al Haque†, Angela D. R. Smith, Brittany Johnson-Matthews. 2023. Towards Equitable Healthcare: A Cross-Dataset Analysis of Healthcare and Telehealth Access. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 60, no. 1 (2023): 11-20. Smith 3

[C.4] Alexandra To*, Angela D. R. Smith*, Dilruba Showkat, Adinawa Adjagbodjou, and Christina Harrington. 2023. Flourishing in the Everyday: Moving Beyond Damage-Centered Design in HCI for BIPOC Communities. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 917–933. BEST PAPER AWARD (Top 1%). https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596057

[C.3] Dilruba Showkat, Angela D. R. Smith, Wang Lingqing, and Alexandra To. 2023. “Who is the right homeless client?”: Values in Algorithmic Homelessness Service Provision and Machine Learning Research. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 394, 1–21. Acceptance Rate: 24.7%. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581010

[C.2] Yiqun T. Chen, Angela D. R. Smith, Katharina Reinecke, and Alexandra To. 2023. Why, when, and from whom: considerations for collecting and reporting race and ethnicity data in HCI. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 395, 1–15. Acceptance Rate: 24.7%. Honorable Mention (Top 5%). https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581122

[C.1] Ihudiya Finda Ogbonnaya-Ogburu*, Angela D. R. Smith*, Alexandra To*, and Kentaro Toyama. 2020. Critical Race Theory for HCI. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–16. Acceptance Rate: 24.3%. BEST PAPER AWARD (Top 1%). https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376392

Refereed journal articles

[J.5] Revisions. Holland Kowalkowski, Angela D. R. Smith. 2025. Action Research: A Curricular and Pedagogical Tool for Cultural Liberation. Journal of Whiteness and Education.

[J.4] Angela D. R. Smith, Gianna Williams, Gabriella Thompson †, Alexandra To. 2025. Constructing a Community of Play: Black Sims Players and Game Modding. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 6, Article GAMES014 (October 2025), 30 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3748609. Honorable Mention (Top 5%).

[J.3] Holland Kowalkowski, Angela D. R. Smith. 2025. Belonging and Social Media: Latinx Teenagers’ Experiences in a YPAR Study. Social Media + Society, 11(1). Impact Factor: 6.8. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251319577

[J.2] Caroline Figueroa, Hikari Murayama, Priscila C. Amorim, Alison White, Ashley Quiterio, Tiffany Luo, Adrian Aguilera, Angela D. R. Smith, Courtney R. Lyles, Victoria Robinson, and Claudia von Vacano. 2022. Applying the Digital Health Social Justice Guide. Methods, Frontier Digital Health - Human Factors and Digital Health. Vol. 4. Impact factor: 2.2.

[J.1] Lindsay P. Zimmerman, Paul A. Reyfman, Angela D. R. Smith, Zexian Zeng, Abel Kho, L. Nelson Sanchez-Pinto, & Yuan Luo. 2019. Early prediction of acute kidney injury following ICU admission using a multivariate panel of physiological measurements. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 19 (Suppl 1), 16. Impact factor: 3.9.

Book chapters

[BC.2] In press. Angela D. R. Smith. Centering Black Joy and Community Knowledge: Decolonial Methods in Gaming Research. 2026. In Decolonizing Research Methods: A Practice-Based Approach. Routledge.

[BC.1] Angela D. R. Smith, Alexandra To, Ihudiya Finda Ogbonnaya-Ogburu. 2022. Racial Justice and Scholar Activism: Reflections on Critical Race Theory for HCI. In Networked Feminisms: Activist Assemblies and Digital Practices. Rowman & Littlefield.

Refereed short papers and extended abstracts

[SP.9] In press. Angela D. R. Smith, Brittany Johnson-Matthews, Meme Styles, Paulette Blanc. 2026. It Takes A Village: Engaging Marginalized Groups in Computing Survey Research. Communications of the ACM.

[SP.8] Lisa Egede†, Ebtesam Al Haque†, Gabriella Thompson†, Alicia Boyd, Angela D. R. Smith, and Brittany Johnson. 2025. Exploring Culturally Informed AI Assistants: A Comparative Study of ChatBlackGPT and ChatGPT. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA'25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 242, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3720136

[SP.7] Chelsea Barabas † and Angela D. R. Smith. 2025. Dear Laura: Ethnographic Lettering as Critical Technical Practice in Design. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 625, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3716213

[SP.6] Gabriella Thompson†, Nissi Otoo†, Jaden Christopher Fisher, Irene Sibi, Angela D. R. Smith, and Ihudiya Finda Ogbonnaya-Ogburu. 2024. Technology Use in the Black Church: Perspectives of Black Church Leaders Preliminary Findings. 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, 223–227. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678884.3681855

[SP.5] Alesandra Baca-Vázquez†, Kayla M. Booth, and Angela D. R. Smith. 2024. Maintaining a Community of Care: Opportunities and Challenges of ICTs for Contemporary Mutual Aid. 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, 233–239. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678884.3681857

[SP.4] Gabriella Thompson†, Ebtesam Al Haque†, Paulette Blanc, Meme Styles, Angela D. R. Smith, Brittany Johnson-Matthews. 2024. An Investigation of Experiences Engaging the Margins in Data-Centric Innovation. HCOMP 2024: The Twelfth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing. Work in Progress.

[SP.3] Ebtesam Al Haque†, Angela D. R. Smith, Brittany Johnson-Matthews. 2023. Towards Improving Access to Healthcare in Virginia: A Cross-Dataset Analysis. International Conference on Computational Science (IC2S2), July 17-20, 2023. Copenhagen, Denmark.

[SP.2] Mark Diaz, Angela D. R. Smith. 2022. (Re)Defining Expertise in Machine Learning Development. Workshop on Human-Centered AI at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPs).

[SP.1] Yiqun T. Chen, Angela D. R. Smith, Katharina Reinecke, and Alexandra To. 2022. Collecting and Reporting Race and Ethnicity Data in HCI. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 327, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519685

Contact

Email: adrsmith@utexas.edu
Based in Austin, Texas