Research publications
First-authored papers
Design Opportunities for Freelancing Platform: Online Freelancers’ Views on a Worker-Centred Design Fiction
Juan Carlos Alvarez de la Vega, Marta E. Cecchinato, John Rooksby
2022 | 🏅 Honorable Mention Award (Top 1% of submissions) | CHIWork Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work | DOI | PDF | Design Fiction | Video presentation
“Why lose control?” A Study of Freelancers’ Experiences with Gig Economy Platforms
Juan Carlos Alvarez de la Vega, Marta E. Cecchinato, John Rooksby
2021 | 🏆 Best Paper Award (Top 5% of submissions) | CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems DOI | PDF | Video presentation
Active and Passive Research through Social Media: The Case for Repurposing Reddit, Instagram and WhatsApp Features in HCI Research Practices
Juan Carlos Alvarez de la Vega, Marta E. Cecchinato, Daniel Lambton-Howard, Daniel Harrison
2021 | Position paper: Social Media as a Design and Research Site in HCI (CHI ’21) | PDF
The Gig Economy in Times of COVID-19: Designing for Gig Workers’ Needs
Juan Carlos Alvarez de la Vega, Marta E. Cecchinato, John Rooksby
2020 | Microsoft Research – New Future of Work Virtual Symposium | PDF | Video presentation
Making the Gig Economy Work for Workers: An Exploration of Freelancing Platforms
Juan Carlos Alvarez de la Vega
2020 | BCS HCI Doctoral Consortium |DOI | PDF
Contributing author
TalkFutures: Supporting Qualitative Practices in Distributed Community Engagements
Jay Rainey, Juan Carlos Alvarez de la Vega, Dan Richardson, Daniel Lambton-Howard, Sara Armouch, Tom Bartindale, Shaun Hazeldine, Pamela Briggs, Patrick Olivier, Kyle Montague
2020 | Designing Interactive Systems | DOI | PDF
WhatFutures: Designing Large-Scale Engagements on WhatsApp
Daniel Lambton-Howard, Robert Anderson, Kyle Montague, Andrew Garbett, Shaun Hazeldine, Juan Carlos Alvarez de la Vega, John A. Sweeney, Patrick Olivier, Ahmed Kharrufa
2019 | CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | DOI | PDF
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