PDN Pro-Social: Designing for Agency w/ Kai Lukoff

​What is Agency - and why and how should platforms be designing for it? Join us for a conversation with Kai Lukoff, professor and HCI researcher, to explore why giving users agency matters and what kinds of designs can give users both a sense of agency and valued experiences.

​About Kai: Dr. Kai Lukoff is an Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University, leading the Human-Computer Interaction Lab in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. He uses human-centered methods to research, design, and develop technologies with social impact. Dr. Lukoff’s research investigates how digital interfaces impact user experience and sense of agency. He has conducted field experiments to evaluate how redesigned features of social media applications, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, impact digital wellbeing metrics.

​About Pro-Socials: Pro-Socials are informal meet-ups where technologists and researchers can learn from - and inspire - each other around understanding and integrating prosocial design. Each Pro-Social includes a motivating question, conversation with experts and break-out convos where you can meet like-minded technologists (designers, product managers, entrepreneurs and trust & safety professionals) and researchers to share insights and begin to co-create new knowledge together.