Project Outcomes

August 2024: Doctoral researcher Gloire Rubambiza successfully defended his dissertation, “Towards Resilient Rural Networking Infrastructure: Seamless Visions, Seamful Realities.” Congrats, Dr. Rubambiza!

May 2024: Doctoral researcher Gloire Rubambiza presented “Seamless Visions, Seamful Realities: Anticipating Rural Infrastructural Fragility in Early Design of Digital Agriculture” at ACM CHI 2024.

March 2024: Co-PI Steven Wolf and collaborator Brian Obach organized an informal meeting of key researchers using speculative methods in agriculture, in collaboration with Maaz Gardezi (Virginia Tech).

March 8, 2024: PI Phoebe Sengers and doctoral researcher Jen Liu, with additional support from Steven Wolf and Brian Obach, facilitated a digital agriculture and speculative design workshop at Cornell University with 14 participants from different disciplines across academia.

February 13, 2024: PI Phoebe Sengers and doctoral researcher Jen Liu co-presented “Dreaming the Digital Farm: Anticipating and Producing the Futures of Digital Agriculture” at the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS) at Cornell University (with Zoom participation from UIUC and University of Arizona).

2023 – 2024: Doctoral researcher Gloire Rubambiza presented “Towards Resilient Networking Infrastructure for Digital Agriculture” as seminar talks at Princeton University CS HCI Seminar UIUC CS Systems Seminar, UT Austin CS Systems Seminar, Stanford University HCI lunch seminar, University of Washington CSE Systems Seminar.

November 2023: Co-PI Hakim Weatherspoon taught the SDF as part of the Cornell University ALS 1110 course.

Oct 4-6, 2023: Co-PI Steven Wolf and Chris Miles organized the Agtech innovation intermediaries and sustainability workshop. Cornell University. https://blogs.cornell.edu/caisw/

September 2023: Doctoral researcher Gloire Rubambiza presented “Towards Resilient Rural Networking Infrastructure for Digital Agriculture” at the doctoral consortium at CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing.

July 2023: Doctoral researcher Gloire Rubambiza presented “EdgeRDV: A Framework for Edge Workload Management at Scale” at IEEE Edge conference.

July 2023: Doctoral researcher Gloire Rubambiza presented “Comosum: An Extensible, Reconfigurable, and Fault-Tolerant IoT Platform for Digital Agriculture” at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC).

June 31, 2023: Matt Comi, postdoctoral researcher Jeanne Oui, and co-PI Steven Wolf presented “Tracing grain digitally from farms to markets. promises, trials, and lessons for technological design” at the International Sociological Association World Congress, Melbourne, Australia

May 31, 2023: Postdoctoral researcher Jeanne Oui presented at Panel ASFS – AFHVS “Digital Agriculture and the environment”, Boston. Panel co-organized with Romain Blancaneaux (Tokyo University) et Quentin Chance (SAGE, Strasbourg University)

April 2023: Postdoctoral researcher Jeanne Oui presented “An environmental governance of crop value chains through digital technologies. US-France perspectives” at the Department Seminar IRISSO – Paris Dauphine University, Paris.

February 27 – March 3, 2023: PI Phoebe Sengers, co-PIs Hakim Weatherspoon and Steven Wolf, and doctoral researchers Shiang Chin, Gloire Rubambiza, and Jen Liu traveled to London to meet and develop a design workbook on digital agriculture collaborators Bill Gaver, Andy Boucher, and members of the Interaction Research Studio at Northumbria University.

February 2023: doctoral researcher Gloire Rubambiza and co-PI Hakim Weatherspoon organized a workshop with IBM Research held at Cornell University.

February 2023: PI Phoebe Sengers co-led a speculative design workshop with Mace Ojala at Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum drawing on material from this work in February.

December 7, 2022: Postdoctoral researcher Jeanne Oui, Christopher Miles, and co-PI Steven Wolf presented “One environmental regulation for all? Digital farm data and regulatory flexibility” at the Society of Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Cholula (Mexico)

September 2022: Postdoctoral Jeanne Oui and Christopher Miles presented “Critical Analyses of Digital Agriculture: Implications for Environment” at the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment (DNRE) Seminar, Cornell University, Ithaca.

July 2022: Postdoctoral researcher Jeanne Oui presented “Precision to the Aid of Pollutions. Digital Agriculture and Theories of Environmental Change” (remote participation) at the International Rural Sociology Association (IRSA) conference (hybrid – Cairns, Australia)

June 2022: We were featured in the article, “Researchers consider invisible hurdles in digital ag design,” published in the Cornell Chronicle.

2022: Doctoral researcher Gloire Rubambiza presented “Seamless Visions, Seamful Realities: Anticipating Rural Infrastructural Fragility in Early Design of Digital Agriculture” at the University of Washington ICTD Seminar.

May 2022: Doctoral researcher Gloire Rubambiza presented “Seamless Visions, Seamful Realities: Anticipating Rural Infrastructural Fragility in Early Design of Digital Agriculture” co-authored with PI Phoebe Sengers and PI Hakim Weatherspoon at the CHI conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

February 2022: Co-PI Hakim Weatherspoon presented results about the SDF to Microsoft

2021: Doctoral researcher Gloire Rubambiza presented “Paradoxes in Producing the Future of Farm Work: Anticipating Social Impact through the Lens of Early Adopters.” at the IBM Hybrid Cloud Academic Project Forum, and the FarmBeats User Community Workshop.

November 2021: co-PI Hakim Weatherspoon presented results about the SDF to Google-X

October 2021: Doctoral researcher Jen Liu presented “Legibility and the Legacy of Racialized Dispossesion in Digital Agriculture” co-authored with PI Phoebe Sengers at CSCW (remote) The paper received an Honorable Mention Award

October 2021: PI Phoebe Sengers, doctoral researcher Jen Liu. Kelly Bronson, and Matt Comi organized a two part panel titled “Networking Rurality” at 4S (Toronto, remote). Doctoral researcher Jen Liu presented “Technologies of Land Dispossession: Digital Agriculture and Legibility” as part of the panel.