Alan Borning -- Publications

Sections on this Page

• Accessibility
• Computers and Civic Engagement
• Constraint-Based Languages and Systems
• Materiality
• Public Transit Information Systems
• SEED Project (Solutions for Environment, Economy and Democracy)
• Surveillance Capitalism and Alternatives
• Urban Modeling
• Value Sensitive Design

Accessibility

• Shiri Azenkot, Sanjana Prasain, Alan Borning, Emily Fortuna, Richard E. Ladner, and Jacob O. Wobbrock, “Enhancing Independence and Safety for Blind and Deaf-Blind Public Transit Riders,” CHI 2011 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) [pdf].
• Caitlin Bonnar, Meg Campbell, Ryan Drapeau, Cynthia Bennett, and Alan Borning, “Contributing During the Commute: Why Transit Riders Submit Information About Bus Stops with StopInfo,” UW CSE Tech Report UW-CSE-15-09-04, September 2015. [pdf].
• Leona Holloway, Matthew Butler, Kim Marriott, and Alan Borning, “Making Sense of Art: Access for Gallery Visitors with Vision Impairments,” CHI 2019 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems), May 2019, Glasgow, Scotland. [pdf (ACM Authorizer version)]

Computers and Civic Engagement

• Travis Kriplean, Michael Toomim, Jonathan Morgan, Alan Borning, and Andrew J. Ko, “Is This What You Meant? Promoting Listening on the Web with Reflect,” CHI 2012 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) [pdf].
• Travis Kriplean, Jonathan Morgan, Deen Freelon, Alan Borning, and Lance Bennett, “Supporting Reflective Public Thought with ConsiderIt,” CSCW 2012 (2012 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work) [pdf].

Constraint-Based Languages and Systems

In addition to the papers listed here, please also see older papers from the UW Constraint-Based Languages and Systems Group.

• Tim Felgentreff, Todd Millstein, Alan Borning, and Robert Hirschfeld, “Checks and Balances: Constraint Solving without Surprises in Object-Constraint Programming Language,” Proceedings of OOPSLA 2015. [pdf]
• Tim Felgentreff, Todd Millstein, and Alan Borning, “Developing a Formal Semantics for Babelsberg: A Step-by-Step Approach,” Viewpoints Research Institute Technical Report TR-2014-002b, 2015. Revised version of TR 2014-002. [pdf]
Tim Felgentreff, Todd Millstein, Alan Borning, and Robert Hirschfeld, “Checks and Balances --- Constraint Solving without Surprises in Object-Constraint Programming Languages: Full Formal Development,” Viewpoints Research Institute Technical Report TR-2015-001, August 2015. Provides additional technical material to accompany the OOPSLA 2015 paper: “Checks and Balances - Constraint Solving without Surprises in Object-Constraint Programming Languages”. [pdf]
• Alan Borning, “Wallingford: Toward a Constraint Reactive Programming Language,” Proceedings of the Constrained and Reactive Objects Workshop (CROW'16), March 2016, Málaga, Spain. [pdf]
• Jane Hoffswell, Alan Borning, and Jeffrey Heer, “SetCoLa: High-Level Constraints for Graph Layout,” Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis), June 2018. [pdf]

Materiality

• Alan Borning, Batya Friedman, and Nick Logler, “The ‘Invisible’ Materiality of Information Technology,” Communications of the ACM 63, 2020. [pdf]
• Alan Borning, Batya Friedman, and Deric Gruen, ldquo;What Pushes Back from Considering Materiality in IT?”, Fourth Workshop on Computing within Limits, May 2018, Toronto, Canada. [pdf]

Public Transit Information Systems

• Brian Ferris, Kari Watkins, and Alan Borning, “OneBusAway: A Transit Traveler Information System,” Proceedings of the First Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services, San Diego, October 2009 [pdf].
• Brian Ferris, Kari Watkins, and Alan Borning, “OneBusAway: Results from Providing Real-Time Arrival Information for Public Transit,” CHI 2010 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) [pdf]. Best Paper Nominee.
• Brian Ferris, Kari Watkins, and Alan Borning, “OneBusAway: Location-Aware Tools for Improving Public Transit Usability,” IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 9 No. 1, Jan-March 2010, pages 13--19 [pdf].

SEED Project (Solutions for Environment, Economy and Democracy)

• W. Lance Bennett, Alan Borning, and Deric Gruen, “Solutions for Environment, Economy, and Democracy (SEED): A Manifesto for Prosperity,” ACM Interactions Vol. 25 No. 1, Jan/Feb 2018, pages 74--76. [pdf].
• W. Lance Bennett, Alan Borning, and Volker Wulf, “Solutions for Economics, Environment and Democracy (SEED): Workshop Description,” 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, 2017. [pdf].

Surveillance Capitalism and Alternatives

• Marvin Landwehr, Alan Borning, and Volker Wulf, “Problems with Surveillance Capitalism and ossible Alternatives for IT Infrastructure,” Information, Communication & Society 26:1, 2021. [pdf; Publisher's version (eprint link)].
• W. Lance Bennett, Alan Borning, Marvin Landwehr, Lance Bennett, Daniela Stockmann ,and Volker Wulf, “Treating Root Causes, not Symptoms: Regulating Problems of Surveillance and Personal Targeting in the Information Technology Industries,” G20 Insights Policy Briefs, 2021. [pdf].
• Alan Borning, Batya Friedman, Jofish Kaye, Cliff Lampe, and Volker Wulf, “SurveillanceCapitalism@CHI: Civil Conversation around a Difficult Topic,” CHI, 2020. Panel description. (In the end CHI 2020 was canceled due to the pandemic and the panel didn't happen -- but it's still an important topic for the community to be discussing.) [pdf].
• Marvin Landwehr, Alan Borning, and Volker Wulf, “Restraining Surveillance Capitalism: Alternative Designs for Social Media and Cloud Computing Platforms,” International Reports on Socio-Informatics:ISSN 1861-4280 (Vol 17, Issue 1), 2020. [pdf]
• Alan Borning, “Surveillance Capitalism, Transit Information, and OneBusAway,” Seattle Transit Blog, 2019. [blog post].
• Marvin Landwehr, Alan Borning, and Volker Wulf, “The High Cost of Free Services: Problems with Surveillance Capitalism and Possible Alternatives for IT Infrastructure,” Fifth Workshop on Computing within Limits (LIMITS 2019), 2019. [pdf].

Urban Modeling

• Alan Borning, Paul Waddell, and Ruth Förster, “UrbanSim: Using Simulation to Inform Public Deliberation and Decision-Making,” in Hsinchun Chen et al., Digital Government: E-Government Research, Case Studies, and Implementation, Springer-Verlag, 2008 [pdf].
• Alan Borning, Hana Ševčíková, and Paul Waddell, “A Domain-Specific Language for Urban Simulation Variables,” Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Montréal, Canada, May 2008 [pdf].
• Batya Friedman, Alan Borning, Janet Davis, Brian Gill, Peter Kahn, Travis Kriplean, and Peyina Lin, “Laying the Foundations for Public Participation and Value Advocacy: Interaction Design for a Large Scale Urban Simulation,” Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Montréal, Canada, May 2008 [pdf].
• Travis Kriplean, Alan Borning, Paul Waddell, Christoffer Klang, and James Fogarty, “Supporting Agile Modeling through Experimentation in an Integrated Urban Simulation Framework,” Proceedings of the 11th International Digital Government Research Conference, Puebla, Mexico, May 2010, pages 112-121 [pdf].

Value Sensitive Design

• Alexei Czeskis, Ivayla Dermendjieva, Hussein Yapit, Alan Borning, Batya Friedman, Brian Gill, and Tadayoshi Kohno, “Parenting from the Pocket: Value Tensions and Technical Directions for Secure and Private Parent-Teen Mobile Safety,” Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security, Redmond, Washington, July 2010 [pdf]. Winner of the Multidisciplinary Privacy Award for the 2011 Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection Conference, Brussels, Belgium.
• Tamara Denning, Alan Borning, Batya Friedman, Brian T. Gill, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel, “Patients, Pacemakers, and Implantable Defibrillators: Human Values and Security for Wireless Implantable Medical Devices,” CHI 2010 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) [pdf]. Honorable Mention for the Multidisciplinary Privacy Award for the 2011 Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection Conference, Brussels, Belgium.
• Alan Borning and Michael Muller, “Next Steps for Value Sensitive Design,” CHI 2012 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems). Best Paper nominee. [pdf].
• Batya Friedman, David Hendry, and Alan Borning, “A Survey of Value Sensitive Design Methods,” Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction 11:23, 2017. [pdf].