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Research. Design. Engineering. Strategy. Policy.

Here's an overview of the projects, efforts, and publications that I've worked on.

Research Article

2023

On the Grounds of Solutionism: Ontologies of Blackness and HCI

Jay Cunningham, Gabrielle Benabdallah, Daniela Rosner, and Alex Taylor. 2023. On the Grounds of Solutionism: Ontologies of Blackness and HCI. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 30, 2, Article 20 (April 2023), 17 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3557890

Research Article

2023

On the Grounds of Solutionism: Ontologies of Blackness and HCI

Jay Cunningham, Gabrielle Benabdallah, Daniela Rosner, and Alex Taylor. 2023. On the Grounds of Solutionism: Ontologies of Blackness and HCI. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 30, 2, Article 20 (April 2023), 17 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3557890

Research Article

2022

The Cost of Culture: An Analysis of Cash App and the Financial Inclusion of Black American Communities

Jay L. Cunningham, Sydney T. Nguyen, Julie A. Kientz and Daniela Rosner. 2022. The Cost of Culture: An Analysis of Cash App and the Financial Inclusion of Black American Communities. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '22), June 13-17, 2022, Virtual Event, Australia. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 24 Pages

Research Article

2022

The Cost of Culture: An Analysis of Cash App and the Financial Inclusion of Black American Communities

Jay L. Cunningham, Sydney T. Nguyen, Julie A. Kientz and Daniela Rosner. 2022. The Cost of Culture: An Analysis of Cash App and the Financial Inclusion of Black American Communities. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '22), June 13-17, 2022, Virtual Event, Australia. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 24 Pages

Research Article

2020

Co-Design With Older Adults: Examining and Reflecting on Collaboration with Aging Communities

Dawn Sakaguchi-Tang, Jay L Cunningham, Wendy Roldan, Jason Yip, and Julie A Kientz. 2021. Co-Design with Older Adults: Examining and Reflecting on Collaboration with Aging Communities. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 5, CSCW2, Article 362 (October 2021), 28 pages, https://doi.org/10.1145/33362

Research Article

2020

Co-Design With Older Adults: Examining and Reflecting on Collaboration with Aging Communities

Dawn Sakaguchi-Tang, Jay L Cunningham, Wendy Roldan, Jason Yip, and Julie A Kientz. 2021. Co-Design with Older Adults: Examining and Reflecting on Collaboration with Aging Communities. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 5, CSCW2, Article 362 (October 2021), 28 pages, https://doi.org/10.1145/33362

Position Paper

2023

Towards Intersectional Voice-UI Design Approaches for African American English Speakers with Dysfuencies

Aaleyah Lewis, Jay L. Cunningham, Orevaoghene Ahia, James Fogarty. 2023. Towards Intersectional CUI Design Approaches for African American English Speakers with Dysfluencies. ACM CHI 2023 Workshop. CUI@CHI: Inclusive Design of CUIs Across Modalities and Mobilities.

Position Paper

2023

Towards Intersectional Voice-UI Design Approaches for African American English Speakers with Dysfuencies

Aaleyah Lewis, Jay L. Cunningham, Orevaoghene Ahia, James Fogarty. 2023. Towards Intersectional CUI Design Approaches for African American English Speakers with Dysfluencies. ACM CHI 2023 Workshop. CUI@CHI: Inclusive Design of CUIs Across Modalities and Mobilities.

Publications

Here's a list of my publications and written works.

The Community Advisory Board Model for Participatory Computing Research: Engaging and Empowering Black Communities in Collaborative University Research

[Manuscript in Progress] Jay Cunningham

September 2025

The Community Advisory Board Model for Participatory Computing Research: Engaging and Empowering Black Communities in Collaborative University Research

[Manuscript in Progress] Jay Cunningham

June 23, 2022

Toward Responsible ASR for African American English Speakers: A Scoping Review of Bias and Equity in Speech Technology

[Peer-Reviewed Article] Jay Cunningham, Jainaba Jawara, Jeffrey Basoah, Adinawa Adjagbodjou, Kowe Kadoma and Aaleyah Lewis. AIES 2025.

July 2025

Toward Responsible ASR for African American English Speakers: A Scoping Review of Bias and Equity in Speech Technology

[Peer-Reviewed Article] Jay Cunningham, Jainaba Jawara, Jeffrey Basoah, Adinawa Adjagbodjou, Kowe Kadoma and Aaleyah Lewis. AIES 2025.

June 23, 2022

Advancing NLP Data Equity: Practitioner Responsibility and Accountability in NLP Data Practices

[Peer-Reviewed Article] Jay Cunningham, Kevin Shao, Rock Yuren Pang and Nat Mengist. AIES 2025.

July 2025

Advancing NLP Data Equity: Practitioner Responsibility and Accountability in NLP Data Practices

[Peer-Reviewed Article] Jay Cunningham, Kevin Shao, Rock Yuren Pang and Nat Mengist. AIES 2025.

June 23, 2022

Should AI Mimic People? Understanding AI-Supported Writing Technology Among Black Users

[Peer-Reviewed Article] Jeffrey K Basoah, Jay L. Cunningham, et. al. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2025).

May 2025

Should AI Mimic People? Understanding AI-Supported Writing Technology Among Black Users

[Peer-Reviewed Article] Jeffrey K Basoah, Jay L. Cunningham, et. al. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2025).

June 23, 2022

Towards Equitable Community-Industry Collaborations: Understanding the Experiences of Nonprofits' Collaborations with Tech Companies

[Peer-Reviewed Article] Erete, Sheena, Eric Corbett, Natasha Smith-Walker, Jay L. Cunningham, Erin Gatz, Tina Park, Tam Perry, Lauren Wilcox, and Remi Denton. ACM CSCW 2025.

May 2025

Towards Equitable Community-Industry Collaborations: Understanding the Experiences of Nonprofits' Collaborations with Tech Companies

[Peer-Reviewed Article] Erete, Sheena, Eric Corbett, Natasha Smith-Walker, Jay L. Cunningham, Erin Gatz, Tina Park, Tam Perry, Lauren Wilcox, and Remi Denton. ACM CSCW 2025.

June 23, 2022

Scalable Community Mentorship: AVELA- A Vision for Engineering Literacy & Access

[Peer-Reviewed Article] Johnson K., Arroyos V., Garcia C., Aisha C., Hussein L., Melaku T., Cunningham J.L., Shapiro B., and Iyer V. World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF). December 2024.

December 2024

Scalable Community Mentorship: AVELA- A Vision for Engineering Literacy & Access

[Peer-Reviewed Article] Johnson K., Arroyos V., Garcia C., Aisha C., Hussein L., Melaku T., Cunningham J.L., Shapiro B., and Iyer V. World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF). December 2024.

June 23, 2022

Methods of Designing Justice-Oriented Interactive AI Systems

[Doctoral Dissertation - University of Washington] Jay L. Cunningham. Human Centered Design and Engineering. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024. 31557596.

August 2024

Methods of Designing Justice-Oriented Interactive AI Systems

[Doctoral Dissertation - University of Washington] Jay L. Cunningham. Human Centered Design and Engineering. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024. 31557596.

June 23, 2022

Understanding the Impacts of Language Technologies’ Performance Disparities on African American Language Speakers

[Peer-Reviewed Article] Jay Cunningham, Su Lin Blodgett, Michael Madaio, Hal Daumé iii, Christina Harrington, and Hanna Wallach. ACL 2024, pages 12826–12833, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics

April 2023

Understanding the Impacts of Language Technologies’ Performance Disparities on African American Language Speakers

June 23, 2022

Towards Intersectional CUI Design Approaches for African American English Speakers with Dysfluencies

[Workshop Position Paper] Aaleyah Lewis, Jay L. Cunningham, Orevaoghene Ahia, James Fogarty. 2023. ACM CHI 2023 Workshop. CUI@CHI: Inclusive Design of CUIs Across Modalities and Mobilities.

April 2023

Towards Intersectional CUI Design Approaches for African American English Speakers with Dysfluencies

[Workshop Position Paper] Aaleyah Lewis, Jay L. Cunningham, Orevaoghene Ahia, James Fogarty. 2023. ACM CHI 2023 Workshop. CUI@CHI: Inclusive Design of CUIs Across Modalities and Mobilities.

June 23, 2022

Collaboratively Mitigating Racial Disparities in Automated Speech Recognition and Language Technologies with African American English Speakers: Community-Collaborative and Equity-Centered Approaches Toward Designing Inclusive Natural Language Systems

[Doctoral Consortium] Jay L. Cunningham. 2023. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 484, 1–5.

April 2023

June 23, 2022

On the Grounds of Solutionism: Ontologies of Blackness and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

[Peer-Reviewed Article] Jay Cunningham, Gabrielle Benabdallah, Daniela Rosner, and Alex Taylor. 2023. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 30, 2, Article 20 (April 2023), 17 pages.

April 2023

On the Grounds of Solutionism: Ontologies of Blackness and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

[Peer-Reviewed Article] Jay Cunningham, Gabrielle Benabdallah, Daniela Rosner, and Alex Taylor. 2023. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 30, 2, Article 20 (April 2023), 17 pages.

June 23, 2022

The Cost of Culture: An Analysis of Cash App and the Financial Inclusion of Black American Communities

[Peer-Reviewed Article] Jay L. Cunningham, Sydney T. Nguyen, Julie A. Kientz and Daniela Rosner. 2022. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '22), June 13-17, 2022, Virtual Event, Australia. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 24 Pages

June 2022

The Cost of Culture: An Analysis of Cash App and the Financial Inclusion of Black American Communities

June 23, 2022

Co-Design with Older Adults: Examining and Reflecting on Collaboration with Aging Communities

[Peer-Reviewed Article] Dawn Sakaguchi-Tang, Jay L Cunningham, Wendy Roldan, Jason Yip, and Julie A Kientz. 2021. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 5, CSCW2, Article 362 (October 2021), 28 pages

October 2021

Co-Design with Older Adults: Examining and Reflecting on Collaboration with Aging Communities

June 23, 2022

Society and Inclusive Technology Design Pedagogy: A Digital Zine

[Academic Magazine] Jay L. Cunningham. 2021. Society and inclusive technology design pedagogy: a digital zine. interactions 28, 5 (September - October 2021), 12–13

October 2021

Society and Inclusive Technology Design Pedagogy: A Digital Zine

[Academic Magazine] Jay L. Cunningham. 2021. Society and inclusive technology design pedagogy: a digital zine. interactions 28, 5 (September - October 2021), 12–13

June 23, 2022

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I’m always open to new connections, collaborations, and potential opportunities. Media requests and requests for speaking engagements can be made through private consultancy. .engage[at]jaylcunningham.com | info[at]jalia.tech

Research. Design. Engineering. Strategy. Policy.

On the Grounds of Solutionism: Ontologies of Blackness and HCI

Jay Cunningham, Gabrielle Benabdallah, Daniela Rosner, and Alex Taylor. 2023. On the Grounds of Solutionism: Ontologies of Blackness and HCI. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 30, 2, Article 20 (April 2023), 17 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3557890

On the Grounds of Solutionism: Ontologies of Blackness and HCI

Jay Cunningham, Gabrielle Benabdallah, Daniela Rosner, and Alex Taylor. 2023. On the Grounds of Solutionism: Ontologies of Blackness and HCI. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 30, 2, Article 20 (April 2023), 17 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3557890

The Cost of Culture: An Analysis of Cash App and the Financial Inclusion of Black American Communities

The Cost of Culture: An Analysis of Cash App and the Financial Inclusion of Black American Communities

Co-Design With Older Adults: Examining and Reflecting on Collaboration with Aging Communities

Co-Design With Older Adults: Examining and Reflecting on Collaboration with Aging Communities

Towards Intersectional Voice-UI Design Approaches for African American English Speakers with Dysfuencies

Aaleyah Lewis, Jay L. Cunningham, Orevaoghene Ahia, James Fogarty. 2023. Towards Intersectional CUI Design Approaches for African American English Speakers with Dysfluencies. ACM CHI 2023 Workshop. CUI@CHI: Inclusive Design of CUIs Across Modalities and Mobilities.

Towards Intersectional Voice-UI Design Approaches for African American English Speakers with Dysfuencies

Aaleyah Lewis, Jay L. Cunningham, Orevaoghene Ahia, James Fogarty. 2023. Towards Intersectional CUI Design Approaches for African American English Speakers with Dysfluencies. ACM CHI 2023 Workshop. CUI@CHI: Inclusive Design of CUIs Across Modalities and Mobilities.

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Get In Touch

Index

Socials

External

jayc[at]depaul.edu

engage[at]jaylcunningham.com

info[at]jalia.tech

Get In Touch

Index

Socials

External

jayc[at]depaul.edu

engage[at]jaylcunningham.com

info[at]jalia.tech