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Riyaj Isamiya ShaikhResearch assistant

About me

Riyaj is an HCI design researcher who enjoys exploring and designing for socially asymmetric and pluralist societies. In his Ph.D., he probes the intelligent algorithmic authorities behind emerging work practices focusing on workers' economic motivations and goals. Specifically, he explores gig labor from the workers' perspective, recognizing the 'money' earned from this work as the lynchpin of their actions and how it shapes their work, decisions, and technology. Before joining DSV, he was a faculty member at the Srishti Institute of Art Design and Technology, Bengaluru. He has also worked with the IT industry in India for five+ years as a designer, consultant, and researcher. Riyaz has a master's in Interaction Design from Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay. He is also a graduate of Computer Science from Pune University.

Teaching

At DSV:

  1.  Project in Software Engineering (VT2023)-  Teaching Assitance
  2. Design and information society (HT2022 & HT2023)- Teaching Assitance
  3. Thesis supervision (2022)

At Srishti Institute of Design and Technology :

  1. Course lead for Human-Centered Design Bachelor program
  2. Interaction design
  3. User-Centered Design
  4. Prototyping  
  5. Visual Communication in UX
  6. Workshops for masters and bachelor program

 

 

Research projects

Human–Computer Interaction for Economic Encounters

There is an increasing trend towards organizing economic and social exchange with the help of online platforms. The transportation service Uber and the short-term rental service Airbnb are two examples. This project focuses on economic encounters in relation to these new marketplaces.

Human–Computer Interaction for Economic Encounters. Illustration: Riyaz Sheikh.

Publications

Shaikh, R., Brown, B., & Lampinen, A. (2023).  The Work to Make Piecework Work: An Ethnographic Study of Food Delivery Work in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic.  Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., CSCW, 23 pages. (pre-print)

 

A selection from Stockholm University publication database

  • CSCW and Algorithmic Systems

    2022. Airi Lampinen (et al.). Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

    Conference

    The European Union announced recently that Europe should be a global hub and leader in the development of Artifcial Intelligence (AI) that guarantees safety and fundamental rights (European Commission (2021)). In this workshop, we investigate how we can approach this challenge from the perspective of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Starting with a general conceptual focus on algorithmic systems and their increasing role in society, we are particularly interested in such systems in and as organisations, and the questions that come up when investigating them as part of complex, cooperative work practices. The full-day workshop, designed for up to 20 participants, advances a CSCW-perspective on algorithmic/AI systems by bringing together researchers within (and where possible beyond) the CSCW community who study algorithmic systems, with the aim of sharing ongoing research and connecting participants with others who share their research interests.

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