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Flood risk data in the GTA is often inaccessible or outdated, leaving most residents, urban planners, municipalities and government agencies without the information needed to take preventive measures.Addressing this critical gap, research by Nicole Gordon, Emily Majeed, Nidhi Subramanyam and Robert Soden with the Toronto Climate […]
What happens when grassroots climate justice activists effectively leverage data? Lilly Flawns’ research, honoured with an Honourable Mention for Best Paper at ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’24) in Copenhagen, explores this question.The paper, “Autonomy, Affect, and Reframing: Unpacking the Data Practices of Grassroots Climate Justice Activists,” […]
Welcome to the Toronto Climate Observatory (TCO) is an emerging interdisciplinary initiative hosted at the University of Toronto. The TCO’s mission is to reimagine how communities around the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) understand and adapt to the impacts of climate change in accountable, contextually situated, equitable, […]

Publications

Lillian Flawn; Robert Soden 2024-07 | Conference paper DOI: 10.1145/3643834.3661585
Mencarini, E.; Nisi, V.; Bremer, C.; Leonardi, C.; Nunes, N.J.; Liu, J.; Soden, R. 2024 | Journal article DOI: 10.1145/3643493
Bowen Zhang; Jennings Anderson; Dipto Sarkar; Robert Soden 2024-05-11 | Conference paper DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3641963
Sophia S Jit, Jennifer Spinney, Priyank Chandra, Lydia B Chilton, Robert Soden CHI ’24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.364192
Taneea S Agrawaal, Samar Sabie, Robert Soden Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 8, Issue CSCW1 https://doi.org/10.1145/3637373
Taneea S Agrawaal, Aarjav Chauhan, Carolina Nobre, Robert Soden CHI ’24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642470
Robert Soden, David Lallemant, Manveer Kalirai, Celine Liu, Dennis Wagenaar & Sophia Jit Communications Earth & Environment volume 4, Article number: 386  https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01039-2
Dashiel Carrera, Gitanjali Bhattacharjee, Robert Soden DIS ’23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3595973
Samar Sabie, Robert Soden, Steven Jackson, Tapan Parikh CHI ’23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581412
Olivia Doggett, Kelly Bronson, Robert Soden CHI ’23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581081