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📝 Publications 📝
I am interested in writing and sharing my work across a wide variety of formats and platforms - from zines and public essays, to academic articles.
Please contact me if you need to access an article: jenliu @ cs. toronto. edu
2026
forthcoming Jen Liu and Sheila Tahir. Ghosts in the Cloud: A Southern Gothic Approach to A.I. Infrastructures." DIY Methods 2026.
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forthcoming Jen Liu and Monique Verdin "A Tale of Three Storms"
forthcoming Jen Liu, Monique Verdin, Jenna Mae, Ozone 504. 2026. "Staying with Friction: Designing Community-Based Communication Infrastructures Under Climate Disruption" In Proceedings of the 2026 ACM SIGCAS & SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS)
Jen Liu. 2026. Noticing Utility Poles: A Visual Study of Infrastructural Materiality in Southeast Louisiana. In Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 4037-4038). https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3800645.3812825
2025
Jen Liu, Monique Verdin, and Ozone 504. 2025. “Signals Through the Storm: Designing Networks for Mutual Aid Communities in Southeast Louisiana.” Interactions, Volume 32, Issue 5. P 54 – 57. https://doi.org/10.1145/3758320
Jen Liu. 2025. “From Sugarcane to Data Centers: Building Solidarities Across Infrastructures.” From The Cloud is Dead: A Series on Living the Legacies of Resource Extraction. Data & Society. https://datasociety.net/points/from-sugarcane-to-data-centers-building-solidarities-across-infrastructures
Jen Liu and Monique Verdin. 2025 “Networking a Network.” Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community, no. 28. https://doi.org/10.24926/2471190X.12133
Steve Jackson, Jen Liu, Ranjit Singh, Samir Passi. 2025. “Maintaining Data Infrastructures.” In The SAGE Handbook on Data & Society edited by Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone Wolford. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529674699.n2
Hannah Friedrich*, Yajaira Ayala*, Jen Liu*, Melissa Villareal*. 2025. “Positionalities in Disaster Recovery Research: Reflections from Fieldwork across the Gulf South.” Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, 1 – 12. *contributed equally https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-07-2024-0192
Vesna Bacheva, Imani Madison, Mathew Baldwin, Mark Beilstein, Douglas F. Call, Jessica A. Deaver, Kirill Efimenko, Jan Genzer, Khara Grieger, April Z. Gu, Mehmet Mert Ilman, Jen Liu, Sijin Li, Brooke K. Mayer, Anand Kumar Mishra, Juan Claudio Nino, Gloire Rubambiza, Phoebe Sengers, Robert Shepherd, Jesse Woodson, Hakim Weatherspoon, Margaret Frank, Jacob Jones, Rosangela Sozzani, and Abraham Stroock. 2025. “Transdisciplinary collaborations for advancing sustainable and resilient agricultural systems”. Global Change Biology. Volume 31, Issue 4. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70142
2024
Lara Roeven, Steven Wolf, Phoebe Sengers, Jen Liu, Gloire Rubambiza, Donny Persaud, Hakim Weatherspoon. 2024. “Analyzing abstraction in critical agri-food studies and computer science: Toward interdisciplinary analysis of digital agriculture innovation.” Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-024-10655-3
Jen Liu and Cindy Lin. 2024. What Worlds are We Designing For? In Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium (HttF '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 25, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3686169.3686203
Gloire Rubambiza, Phoebe Sengers, Hakim Weatherspoon, and Jen Liu. 2024. "Seam Work and Simulacra of Societal Impact in Networking Research: A Critical Technical Practice." Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference of Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24). https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642337
Eleonora Mencarini, Valentina Nisi, Christina Bremer, Chiara Leonardi, Nun Jardim Nunes, Jen Liu, and Robert Soden. 2024 “Imagining Sustainable Futures: Expanding the Discussion on Sustainable HCI.” interactions, Volume 31, Issue 2. P 39-43. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643493
2023
Jen Liu. 2023. “Under Pressure: Keeping Cables Dry in South Louisiana.” Journal of Environmental Media, Volume 4, Issue 1. P. 91-94. https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00098_1
Jen Liu. 2023. “Unpacking Intermittency: A Case study from Southeast Louisiana.” Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Computing within Limits. LIMITS.
Jen Liu, Sheila Tahir, Alahna Moore, Shreyas Vasudevan, Josie Ygnatowiz. 2023. "Tools for Resisting Toxic Air: Methods from South Louisiana". In the DIY Methods 2023 Conference Proceedings. p. 417 - 444
Remy Hellstern and Jen Liu. 2023. “Lessons from Storms and Wetlands: Rethinking disaster response for communication infrastructures.” Issue 6, Branch Magazine. https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-6/lessons-from-storms-and-wetlands/
Jen Liu. 2023. “Living with Intermittent Infrastructures.” Sun Thinking exhibit hosted by Solar Protocol. http://solarprotocol.net/sunthinking/#liu
Olivia Doggett, Jen Liu, Ufuoma Ovienmhada, Samar Sabie, Sarah Gram, Laura J Perovich, Matt Ratto, and Robert Soden. 2023. Environmental and Climate Justice in Computing. In Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’23 Companion). https://doi.org/10.1145/3584931.3611296
Sebastian Prost, Nick Taylor, Angelika Strohmayer, Henry Collingham. Débora de Castro Leal, Max Krüger, Jen Liu, Clara Crivellaro, John Vines. 2023. “Bringing Sustainability through, in, and of HCI into Conversation.” In Proceedings of the 2023 Designing Interactive Systems Conference: DIS ’23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563703.3591459
Jen Liu. 2023. Utility Poles of Southeast Louisiana Photo Zine
2022
Jen Liu. 2022. “How to get to the end of the world.” interactions 29, (January - February 2022), 39–43. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3501291
Jen Liu. 2022. Hanging on a Wire: Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change on Networked Infrastructures in South Louisiana. 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 70, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.350381
Esther Jang, Nicola Bidwell, Jen Liu, Phoebe Sengers, Naveen Bagalkot, Nervo Verdezoto, Melissa Densmore, Morgan Vigil-Hayes, Shaddi Hasan. 2022. “Situating Network Infrastructures with People, Practices, and Beyond: A Community Building Workshop.” In Proceedings of the 2022 CSCW Conference: CSCW 22’. https://doi.org/10.1145/3500868.3560716
Jen Liu, Cindy Lin, Anne Pasek, Lace Padilla, Robert Soden, Daniela Rosner, and Steve Jackson. 2022. “Towards a Material Ethics of Computing: Addressing the Uneven Stakes of Digital Infrastructures.” In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference: CHI 22’. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3505649
2021
Jen Liu and Phoebe Sengers. 2021. “Legibility and the Legacy of Racialized Dispossession in Digital Agriculture.” Proceedings in ACM Human-Computer Interaction. 5, CSCW, Article 480 (October 2021). https://doi.org/10.1145/3479867
2020 and prior
Szu-Yu (Cyn) Liu, Jen Liu, Kristin Dew, Patrycja Zdziarska, Maya Livio, and Shaowen Bardzell. 2019. “Exploring Noticing as Method in Design Research.” In Proceedings of the 2019 Designing Interactive Systems Conference: DIS ‘19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3301019.3319995
Joselyn McDonald*, Siyan Zhao*, Jen Liu*, Michael Riviera. 2018. “MaxiFab: Applied Fabrication to Advance Menstrual Technologies.” DIS Works in Progress: Proceedings of the 2018 Designing for Interactive Systems Conference (DIS). https://doi.org/10.1145/3197391.3205405 *contributed equally
Jen Liu, Daragh Byrne, Laura Devendorf. 2018.“Designing for Collaborative Survival: An Inquiry into Human-Fungi Relationships.” Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18). https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173614
Jen Liu. 2017. “Field Computing: Wearable Devices for Citizen Science Applications.” TEI Works in Progress: Proceedings of the 2017 Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction Conference. https://doi.org/10.1145/3024969.3025072
Jen Liu. 2014. “Butt Blinkers.” Featured project in Make: Wearable Electronics. Sebastopol: Maker Media. 2014.