In my research, I examine how individuals—particularly older adults—and communities navigate, maintain, and adapt shared cultural, informational, and care systems in times of disruption and precarity.
My work spans four interconnected areas:
Infrastructure
Last-Mile Work of Infrastructures: Collective Coordination of Early COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution for Older Adults
Ankenbauer, S.A. and Lu, A.J.
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2025)Rethinking Technological Solutions for Community-Based Older Adult Care: Insights from “Older Partners” in China
Ankenbauer, S.A., Sun, Y., Guo, Z., Chen, Y., Ma, X., & He, L.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW 2025)
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Making Space for Cultural Infrastructure: The Breakdown and Maintenance Work of Independent Movie Theaters During Crisis
Ankenbauer, S.A. and Lu, A.J.
Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022)
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Infrastructuring for Organizational Resilience: Experiences and Perspectives for Business Continuity
Syed, H. A., Schorch, M., Ankenbauer, S. A., Hassan, S., Meisner, K., Stein, M., Pipek, V.
Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET 2021)
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Digital Curation
Cemetery of Splendor: Stone as Memory, Grounds as Assemblage
Ankenbauer, S.A.
Proceedings of Society for Social Studies of Science (4S 2025)
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Time's Sublimest Target: Practices of Forgetting in HCI and CSCW
Ankenbauer, S.A. and Brewer, R.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (GROUP 2025)
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Spirits in the Material World: Older Adults' Personal Curation of Memory Artifacts
Ankenbauer, S.A. and Brewer, R.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW 2024)
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Accessibility & Care
Rethinking Technological Solutions for Community-Based Older Adult Care: Insights from “Older Partners” in China
Ankenbauer, S.A., Sun, Y., Guo, Z., Chen, Y., Ma, X., & He, L.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW 2025)
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The Search for Paxlovid: Medication Acquisition as Anticipation Work After China's Zero-COVID Policy
Ankenbauer, S.A. and Yi, H.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW 2024)
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Examining Voice Community Use
Brewer, R., Ankenbauer, S.A, Hashmi, M., & Upadhyay, P.
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI 2024)
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Scams & Trust/Distrust
The Right to Be Skeptical: Insights from Recruiting At-Risk Users on Nextdoor
Ankenbauer, S.A. and Brewer, R.
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025)
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