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Dr. Mauricio Mejía participated in the hybrid panel "Gendered and Racial Food Injustices in The U.S." in The International Conference on Food Futures: Humanities and Social Science Approaches at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan (hybrid conference). He discussed …

Dr. Mauricio Mejía will join Dr. Katie Pine (PI, ASU), Dr. Yunan Chen (UC Irvine), Dr. Melissa Mazmanian (UC Irvine), and Dr. Myeong Lee (GMU) to study data-driven risk prediction and management in fire departments and co-design speculative artifacts to predict and manage risk …

Dr. Mejía will present a conference paper in November about how to use anticipation to design just futures at the 4th International Conference on Anticipation 2022 at Arizona State University. The paper is titled "Anticipatory justice in design speculation." Abstract . All …

This June, PhD Candidate Yumeng Xie started her annual internship as a User Experience Researcher at J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company and one of the largest transportation logistics companies in North America. It specializes …

Next academic year Dr. Mejía will join two health researchers, Dr. Brad Doebbeling an Dr. Allie Peckham to study and propose how to design health information systems in Zimbabwe. In sub-Saharan areas of Africa, people have limited access to health care. We will work with medical …

Next week on Tuesday April 5th, Dr. Mejía will speak at ASU's Public Interest Technology - PIT - Colloquium. He will discuss the concept of design for change in health and sustainability. The PIT colloquium is hosted by Dr. Roba Abbas and Dr. Katina Michael from the School for …

Last week on Friday January 20th, Dr. Mejía attendded the Design for Behavior Change SIG Symposium of the Design Research Society DRS. He made a short presentation about the scales of design for change.

This Spring semester, for the second time, Dr. Mejía will teach the graduate elective Strategic Design (oriented by) Futures course. The Partnership for Economic Innovation PEI will sponsor the course. Students will design visions and services for a citizen-centric smart region. …

PhD Candidate Yumeng Xie led a conference paper presentation that she coauthored with Dr. Mauricio Mejía and PhD Student Wenqi Zheng. The paper is titled " An exploratory study of co-design skills in US job postings ." We did a quantitative content analysis and observed that …