curriculum vitae – Colin M. Gray, PhD

June 2014: Indiana University—Bloomington, IN
Ph.D. Instructional Systems Technology
Minor: Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction design
Dissertation title: Living in Two Worlds: A Critical Ethnography of Academic and Proto-Professional Interactions in a Human-Computer Interaction Design Studio http://hdl.handle.net/2022/18772
[Received Instructional Systems Technology Dissertation of the Year Award]
Committee Members: Elizabeth Boling (chair), Erik Stolterman, Martin A. Siegel, Phil Carspecken
May 2010: University of South Carolina—Columbia, SC
M.Ed. Educational Technology
June 2008: Savannah College of Art and Design—Savannah, GA
M.A. Graphic Design
May 2005: Bob Jones University—Greenville, SC
B.S. Graphic Design

Professional Experience

2023—present: Associate Professor, Indiana University Bloomington
Human-Computer Interaction Design (HCI/d) Program Director (MS program and PhD Track)
Department of Informatics, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
2021—2023: Associate Professor, Purdue University
Department of Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue Polytechnic Institute
Associate Professor (by courtesy), Learning Design & Technology
Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
2018—present: Guest Professor, Beijing Normal University
Beijing, People’s Republic of China
2024—present: Visiting Researcher, Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
2017—2023: Visiting Researcher, Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
2015—2021: Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Department of Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue Polytechnic Institute
2014—2015: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Iowa State University
Research, instructional development, and implementation lead
Funded by NSF Grant No. 1323251: Collaborative Research:Evidence-based Pedagogy in Engineering Education: Design Heuristics for Concept Generation [TUES Type II]
2012—2014: Research Assistant, Indiana University
Research group coordinator and mentor
Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Designs for Learning
2011—2012: Graduate Assistant, Indiana University
Supported distance adjunct instructors in the Instructional Systems Technology department
Manage updates and news on the department web site
1998—present: Principal, graydesign
Branding and visual strategy; interactive & print development
Interaction design and instructional strategy
2007—2010: Art Director, Think Up Consulting
Art direction of all organizational activities; oversight of graphic production
Visual integration of instructional design, development, and implementation processes and procedures
Management of a team of desktop publishers, graphic designers, and interns

Awards

Professional

Best Paper Award, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 2023.
Best of CHI Honorable Mention, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021.
Outstanding Design Case, American Educational Research Association, SIG Design & Technology, 2021.
Honorable Mention, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 2020.
Best of CHI Honorable Mention, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019.
Best Diversity Paper Nominee, American Society for Engineering Education, 2016.
Best of CHI Honorable Mention, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2015.
Best Paper Award, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 2014.
ECT Foundation Qualitative Inquiry Award, 2013.
NSF Early Career Symposium Sponsored Attendee, AECT International Convention, 2013.
Award for Outstanding Service to the Division, AECT Design & Development Division, 2013.
Presidential Service Award, Design & Development Division, AECT, 2012.

University

Charles B. Murphy Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Computer Graphics Technology, 2022-2023.
Good to Great Award, Purdue Polytechnic Institute (2021). Awarded for efforts in building research impact areas within the college.
Outstanding Faculty Leadership in Globalization, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, 2019-2020.
Exceptional Early Career Award for Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Computer Graphics Technology, 2019-2020.
Exceptional Early Career Award for Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Computer Graphics Technology, 2018-2019.
Good to Great Award, Purdue Polytechnic Institute (2018). Awarded for efforts in establishing a global partnership with Beijing Normal University
Exceptional Early Career Award for Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Computer Graphics Technology, 2017-2018.
Instructional Systems Technology (IST) Dissertation of the Year Award, Indiana University, 2015.
Jerrold E. Kemp Instructional Systems Technology Research Fellowship, Indiana University, 2013.
L. C. Larson Travel Award, Indiana University, 2013.
Best Research Paper Award, Instructional Systems Technology 13th Annual Conference, Indiana University, 2013.
Proffitt Doctoral Fellowship, Indiana University, 2010-2011.
Combined Honors Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2005-2006.

Journal Publications

Peer Reviewed

Chivukula, S. S., Gray, C. M., Li, Z., Pivonka, A. C., & Chen, J. (in press). Surveying a Landscape of Ethics-Focused Design Methods. ACM Journal of Responsible Computing. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678988
Gray, C. M., Chivukula, S. S., Johns, J., Will, M., Obi, I., & Li, Z. (2024). Languaging Ethics in Technology Practice. ACM Journal of Responsible Computing, 1(2), Article No. 15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3656468
Bielova, N., Santos, C., & Gray, C. M. (2024). Two worlds apart! Closing the gap between regulating EU consent and user studies. Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, 37(3), 1295-1333. https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/assets/articlePDFs/v37/Symposium-12-Bielova-Santos-Gray-Two-Worlds-Apart-Closing-the-Gap-Between-Regulating-EU-Consent-and-User-Studies.pdf
Pivonka, A. C., Makary, L., & Gray, C. M. (2024). Organizing Metaphors for Design Methods. International Journal of Technology and Design Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-024-09880-y [ReadCube SharedIt]
Lachheb, A., Abramenka-Lachheb, V., Moore, S., & Gray, C. M. (2023). The role of design ethics in maintaining students’ privacy: A call to action to learning designers in higher education. British Journal of Educational Technology, 54(6), 1653-1670. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13382
Gray, C. M., & Exter, M. E. (2023). A Design Sprint towards a Four-Year Curriculum in Transdisciplinary Studies. International Journal of Designs for Learning, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.14434/ijdl.v14i1.35194
Debs, L., Gray, C. M., & Asunda, P. A. (2023). Students’ Perceptions and Reasoning Patterns about the Ethics of Emerging Technology. International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 33, 143-163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-021-09719-w
Goffe, L. Chivukula, S. S., Bowyer, A., Bowen, S., Toombs, A. L., & Gray, C. M. (2022). Web Augmentation for Well-being: The Human-Centred Design of a Takeaway Food Ordering Digital Platform. Interacting with Computers, iwac015. https://doi.org/10.1093/iwc/iwac015
Gray, C. M. (2022). Building an Ethnographic Toolbox: Engaging Analog and Digital Tools in Virtual and Physical Spaces. TechTrends (SI: Ethnographic Experiences in Learning Design), 66, 56-67. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-021-00680-y [ReadCube]
Gray, C. M. (2022). Languaging Design Methods. Design Studies, 78, Article No. 101076. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2021.101076
Gray, C. M., Chivukula, S. S., Hasib, A., & Li, Z. (2022). Using Decisive Constraints to Create Design Methods to Guide Ethical Impact. Design Studies, 79, Article No. 101097. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2022.101097
Gray, C. M., Wolford, C., & Huston, D. (2022). Iterating Overnight: Using Cardboard to Teach Audio During a Pandemic. International Journal of Engineering Education, 38(6), 1704-1711. [Selected for publication in a special issue from Mudd Design Workshop XII] https://www.ijee.ie/latestissues/Vol38-6/04_ijee4269.pdf
Gray, C. M. (2021). “Scaling Up” and Adapting to Crisis: Shifting a Residential UX Studio Program Online. Design and Technology Education: An International Journal. 26(4), 37-49. https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/DATE/article/view/2969
Liu, W., Lee, K.-P., Gray, C. M., Toombs, A. L., Chen, K.-H., & Leifer, L. (2021). Transdisciplinary Teaching and Learning in UX Design: A Review and AR Case Studies. Applied Sciences (SI: State-of-the-Art in Human Factors and Interaction Design), 11(22). https://doi.org/10.3390/app112210648
Allred, A. M., & Gray, C. M. (2021). “Be Gay, Do Crimes”: The Co-Production and Activist Potential of Contemporary Fanzines. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction, 5(CSCW2), Article 376, 35 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3479520 (open access)
Gray, C. M., Chen, J., Chivukula, S. S., & Qu, L. (2021). End User Accounts of Dark Patterns as Felt Manipulation. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction, 5(CSCW2), Article 372, 25 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3479516 (open access)
Gray, C. M., & Chivukula, S. S. (2021). “That’s dastardly ingenious”: Ethical Argumentation Strategies on Reddit. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction, 5(CSCW1), Article 70, 25 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3449144 [ACM Author-Izer]
Exter, M. E., Gray, C. M., & Fernandez, T. (2020). Conceptions of Design by Transdisciplinary Educators: Disciplinary Background and Pedagogical Engagement. International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 30, 777-798. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-019-09520-w [ReadCube]
Gray, C. M., Parsons, P., Toombs, A. L., Rasche, N., & Vorvoreanu, M. (2020). Designing an Aesthetic Learner Experience: UX, Instructional Design, and Design Pedagogy. International Journal of Designs for Learning, 11(1), 41-58. [Awarded Outstanding Design Case, American Educational Research Association, SIG Design & Technology] https://doi.org/10.14434/ijdl.v11i1.26065
Gray, C. M. (2019). Democratizing assessment practices through multimodal critique in the design classroom. International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 29(4), 929-946. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-018-9471-2 [Springer SharedIt]
Gray, C. M. (2019). Revealing Students’ Ethical Awareness During Problem Framing. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 38(2), 299-313. https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12190 [ReadCube]
Gray, C. M., & Kou, Y. (2019). Co-Producing, Curating, and Defining Design Knowledge in an Online Practitioner Community. CoDesign, 15(1), 41-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2018.1563193
Gray, C. M., McKilligan, S., Daly, S. R., Seifert, C. M., & Gonzalez, R. (2019). Using Creative Exhaustion to Foster Idea Generation. International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 29(1), 177-195. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-017-9435-y [Springer SharedIt]
Kou, Y., Gray, C. M., Toombs, A. L., & Adams, R. S. (2018). Understanding Social Roles in an Online Community of Volatile Practice: A Study of User Experience Practitioners on Reddit. ACM Transactions on Social Computing, 1(4), Article No. 17. [Selected for publication in a special issue from HICSS’18; +30% expansion] https://doi.org/10.1145/3283827 [ACM Author-Izer]
Kou. Y., & Gray, C. M. (2018). “What do you recommend a complete beginner like me to practice?”: Professional Self-Disclosure in an Online Community. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction, 2(CSCW), Article 94, 25 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3274363 [preprint]
Gray, C. M., & Fernandez, T. M. (2018). When world(view)s collide: Contested epistemologies and ontologies in transdisciplinary education. International Journal of Engineering Education, 34(2B), 574-589. [Selected for publication in a special issue from Mudd Design Workshop X] [preprint]
Gray, C. M., & Boling, E. (2018). Designers’ Articulation and Activation of Instrumental Design Judgments in Cross-Cultural User Research. Codesign, 14(2), 79-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2017.1393546 [Selected for publication in a special issue from DTRS’11]
Kou. Y., & Gray, C. M. (2017). Supporting Distributed Critique through Interpretation and Sense-Making in an Online Creative Community. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction, 1(CSCW), Article 60, 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3134695 [ACM Author-Izer]
Gray, C. M., & Boling, E. (2016). Inscribing Ethics and Values in Designs for Learning: A Problematic. Educational Technology Research & Development, 64(5), 969-1001. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-016-9478-x [Springer SharedIt]
Gray, C. M., Seifert, C. M., Yilmaz, S., Daly, S. R., & Gonzalez, R. (2016). What is the Content of “Design Thinking”? Design Heuristics as Conceptual Repertoire. International Journal of Engineering Education, 32(3B), 1349-1355. [Selected for publication in a special issue from Mudd Design Workshop IX] [preprint] http://www.ijee.ie/latestissues/Vol32-3B/05_ijee3220ns.pdf
Gray, C. M., Dagli, C., Demiral-Uzan, M., Ergulec, F., Tan, V., Altuwaijri, A., Gyabak, K., Hilligoss, M., Kizilboga, R., Tomita, K., & Boling, E. (2015). Judgment and Instructional Design: How ID Practitioners Work in Practice. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 28(3), 25-49. https://doi.org/10.1002/piq.21198
Boling, E., Gray, C. M., Modell, M. G., Altuwaijri, A., & Jung, J. (2014). Learners Interpreting Instructional Images: Meaning-making and Decision-making Strategies. Journal of Visual Literacy, 33(2), 27-51. [pdf]
Gray, C. M. & Howard, C. D. (2014). Designerly Talk in Non-Pedagogical Social Spaces. Journal of Learning Design, 7(1), 40-58. [pdf] https://doi.org/10.5204/jld.v7i1.153 [republished in Journal of Learning Design: 10th Anniversary Issue, 8(3) with author reflection]
Gray, C. M. & Siegel, M. A. (2014). Sketching Design Thinking: Representations of Design in Education and Practice. Design and Technology Education, 19(1), 48-61. [Selected for publication in a special issue from DRS // CUMULUS 2013] [pdf]
Gray, C. M. (2013). Factors That Shape Design Thinking. Design and Technology Education, 18(3), 8-20. [pdf]
Gray, C. M. (2013). Informal Peer Critique and the Negotiation of Habitus in a Design Studio. Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 12(2), 195-209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/adch.12.2.195_1 [Selected for publication in a special issue from DRS // CUMULUS 2013]
Gray, C. M., Jung, J., Watson, C., Jia, X., & Frick, T. W. (2012). Models and Design Judgment: Conflicting Perspectives on Redesigning a Doctoral Readings Course. International Journal of Designs for Learning, 3(1), 27-38. https://doi.org/10.14434/ijdl.v3i1.1255
Modell, M. G., Gray, C. M. (2011). Searching for Personal Territory in a Human-Computer Interaction Design Studio. Journal for Education in the Built Environment, 6(2), 54-78. https://doi.org/10.11120/jebe.2011.06020054

Invited or Juried

Gray, C. M., & Boling, E. (2023). Learning experience design in the light of design knowledge and philosophy. Journal of Applied Instructional Design, 12(3). https://edtechbooks.org/jaid_12_3/LXD_design_knowledge_and_philosophy
Gray, C. M. (2020). Markers of Quality in Design Precedent. International Journal of Designs for Learning, 11(3), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.14434/ijdl.v11i3.31193
Gray, C. M. & Howard, C. D. (2015). Reflection on Designerly Talk in Non-Pedagogical Social Spaces. Journal of Learning Design: 10th Anniversary Issue, 8(3), 143-164. [pdf] http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/jld.v8i3.259 [reflection with republished version of Gray & Howard (2014)]
Howard, C. D., & Gray, C. M. (2014). Introduction to the Special Issue on Historic Design Cases. In Gray, C. M. & Howard, C. D. (Eds.) International Journal of Designs for Learning [Special Issue on Historic Design Cases], 5(2), i-iv. [pdf]
Boling, E., & Gray, C. M. (2014). Design: The topic that should not be closed. TechTrends, 58(6), 17-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11528-014-0798-6

Trade Publications

Gray, C. M., & Chivukula, S. S. (2020). When Does Manipulation Turn a Design “Dark”? Interactions, 27(1), 96–96. [ACM Author-Izer] https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574
Gray, C. M., Toombs, A. L., Owczarzak, M., & Watkins, C. (2019). Digital civics goes abroad. Interactions, 26(2), 74-77. [ACM Author-Izer] https://doi.org/10.1145/3301661

Conference Proceedings

Full Conference Papers

Feast, L., Christensen, B. T., Krogh, P. G., Gray, C. M., & Laursen, L. N. (2024, October). What is Responsible Design Education?. In Proceedings of the Relating Systems Thinking & Design Conference (RSD13).
Sanchez Chamorro, L., Lallemand, C., & Gray, C. M. (2024, July). “My Mother Told Me These Things are Always Fake”—Understanding Teenagers’ Experiences with Manipulative Designs. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS’24). https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3660704
Gray, C. M., & Toombs, A. L. (2024, June). Themes, Lenses, and Materials: Three Perspectives on HCI Program Development. EduCHI 2024: 6th Annual Symposium on HCI Education (EduCHI ’24). https://doi.org/10.1145/3658619.3658622
Obi, I., Naik, S., Gray, C. M., Parsons, P. C., Toombs, A. L., Jo, M., & Mondan, P. (2024, June). Metacognitive Strategies to Foster Interculturally-Aware Design Competency. EduCHI 2024: 6th Annual Symposium on HCI Education (EduCHI ’24).
Chivukula, S. S., & Gray, C. M. (2024, June). Envisioning Transformation Structures to Support Ethical Mediation Practices. In Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference. Boston, MA: Design Research Society. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.178
Chivukula, S. S., & Gray, C. M. (2024, June). Quant-Ethico: A Computational Approach to Quantifying and Interpreting Ethical Decision Making. In Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference. Boston, MA: Design Research Society. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.223
Gray, C. M., Obi, I., Chivukula, S. S., Li, Z., Carlock, T., Will, M., Pivonka, A. C., Johns, J., Rigsbee, B., Menon, A. R., & Bharadwaj, A.(2024, May). Building an Ethics-Focused Action Plan: Roles, Process Moves, and Trajectories. In CHI’24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642302
Gray, C. M., Santos, C., Bielova, N., & Mildner, T.(2024, May). An Ontology of Dark Patterns: Foundations, Definitions, and a Structure for Transdisciplinary Action. In CHI’24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642436
Gray, C. M., Chivukula, S. S., Carlock, T., Li, Z., & Duane, J. (2023, July). Scaffolding Ethics-Focused Methods for Practice Resonance. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS’23), 2375–2391. ACM Press. [Awarded Best Paper, Top 1%] https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596111
Parsons, P. C., Shukla, P., Baigelenov, A., & Gray, C. M. (2023, April). Developing Framing Judgment Ability: Student Perceptions from a Graduate UX Design Program. EduCHI 2023: 5th Annual Symposium on HCI Education (EduCHI ’23). https://doi.org/10.1145/3587399.3587401
Gray, C. M. (2022, June). Critical Pedagogy and the Pluriversal Design Studio. In Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference. Bilbao, Spain: Design Research Society. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.238 [presentation]
Gray, C. M., Liu, W., Xin, X., Chin. D., Marks, J., Bunting, S., Anglin, J., Hutzel, B., Kokate, S., & Yang, Y. (2022, May). Defamiliarization and Intercultural Learning in Cross-Cultural HCI Education. In 4th Annual ACM SIGCHI Symposium on HCI Education (EduCHI 2022), New Orleans, Louisiana. [preprint]
Parsons, P., & Gray, C. M. (2022, May). Separating Grading and Feedback in UX Design Studios. In 4th Annual ACM SIGCHI Symposium on HCI Education (EduCHI 2022), New Orleans, Louisiana. [preprint]
Pivonka, A., Makary, L., & Gray, C. M. (2022, May). Organizing Metaphors for Design Methods in Intermediate HCI Education. In 4th Annual ACM SIGCHI Symposium on HCI Education (EduCHI 2022), New Orleans, Louisiana. [preprint]
Di, Z., Gray, C. M., Toombs, A. L., & Liu, W. (2021, December). Building a Cross-Cultural UX Design Dual Degree. In IASDR 2021: The Ninth Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research, Hong Kong. [preprint]
Li, Z., Gray, C. M., Toombs, A. L., McDonald, K., Marinovic, L., & Liu, W. (2021, September). Cross-Cultural UX Pedagogy: A China–US Partnership. In LearnxDesign: 6th International Conference for Design Education Researchers. Shandong University of Art & Design, Jinan, China. [preprint, presentation]
Wolford, C., Zhao, Y., Kashyap, S., & Gray, C. M. (2021, September). Critique Assemblages in Response to Emergency Hybrid Studio Pedagogy. In LearnxDesign: 6th International Conference for Design Education Researchers. Shandong University of Art & Design, Jinan, China. [preprint, presentation]
Gray, C. M., Chivukula, S. S., Melkey, K., & Manocha, R. (2021, August). Understanding “Dark” Design Roles in Computing Education. In ICER’21: Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research. https://doi.org/10.1145/3446871.3469754 (open access) [presentation]
Goffe, L. Chivukula, S. S., Bowyer, A., Bowen, S., Toombs, A. L., & Gray, C. M. (2021, July). Appetite for Disruption: Designing Human-Centred Augmentations to an Online Food Ordering Platform. In Proceedings of the 33rd British Human Computer Interaction Conference. University of West London, London, UK. http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2021.16
Gray, C. M., Wolford, C., & Huston, D. (2021, June). Iterating Overnight: Using Cardboard to Teach Audio During a Pandemic. In Proceedings of the Mudd Design Workshop XII: Designing Through Making: 2-D and 3-D Representations of Designs In Campus Facilities and Remotely. Claremont, CA: Harvey Mudd College. [preprint, presentation]
Chivukula, S. S., Hasib, A., Li, Z., Chen, J., & Gray, C. M. (2021, May). Identity Claims that Underlie Ethical Awareness and Action. In CHI’21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445375 [ACM Author-Izer, presentation]
Gray, C. M., Santos, C., Bielova, N., Toth, M., & Clifford, D. (2021, May). Dark Patterns and the Legal Requirements of Consent Banners: An Interaction Criticism Perspective. In CHI’21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press. [Awarded Best of CHI Honorable Mention, top 5%]. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445779 [ACM Author-Izer, presentation]
Boling, E., Gray, C. M., & Smith, K. (2020, August). Educating for Design Character in Higher Education: Challenges in Studio Pedagogy. In Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference. Brisbane, Australia: Design Research Society. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2020.120
Chivukula, S. S., & Gray, C. M. (2020, August). Co-Evolving Towards Evil Design Outcomes: Mapping Problem and Solution Process Moves. In Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference. Brisbane, Australia: Design Research Society. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2020.107
Gray, C. M., Chivukula, S. S., & Lee, A. (2020, July). What Kind of Work Do “Asshole Designers” Create? Describing Properties of Ethical Concern on Reddit. In DIS’20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 61–73). New York, NY: ACM Press. [Awarded Honorable Mention, top 5%] https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395486 [ACM Author-Izer]
Watkins, C. R., Gray, C. M., Toombs, A. L., & Parsons, P. (2020, July). Tensions in Enacting a Design Philosophy in UX Practice. In DIS’20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 2107–2118). New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395505 [ACM Author-Izer]
Kharrufa, A., & Gray, C. M. (2020, April). Threshold Concepts in HCI Education. In 2nd Annual ACM SIGCHI Symposium on HCI Education (EduCHI 2020). Honolulu, HI. [pdf]
Chivukula, S. S., Watkins, C., Chen, J., Manocha, R., & Gray, C. M. (2020, April). Dimensions of UX Practice that Shape Ethical Awareness. In CHI’20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376459 [ACM Author-Izer]
Jo, E., Toombs, A. L., Gray, C. M., & Hong, H. (2020, April). Understanding Parenting Stress through Co-designed Self-Trackers. In CHI’20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376359 [ACM Author-Izer]
Toombs, A. L., Whitley, D., & Gray, C. M. (2020, January). Autono-preneurial Agents in the Community: Developing a Socially Aware API for Autonomous Entrepreneurial Lawn Mowers. In GROUP’20: Companion of the 2020 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (pp. 69-82). New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3323994.3369900 [ACM Author-Izer, presentation]
Chivukula, S. S., Gray, C. M., & Brier, J. (2019, May). Analyzing Value Discovery in Design Decisions Through Ethicography. In CHI’19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press. [Awarded Best of CHI Honorable Mention, top 5%]. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300307 [ACM Author-Izer, presentation]
Gray, C. M., & Chivukula, S. S. (2019, May). Ethical Mediation in UX Practice. In CHI’19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300408 [ACM Author-Izer, presentation]
Kou, Y., & Gray, C. M. (2019, May). A Practice-Led Account of the Conceptual Evolution of UX Knowledge. In CHI’19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300279 [ACM Author-Izer, presentation]
Kou, Y., & Gray, C. M. (2018, June). Distinctions between the Communication of Experiential and Academic Design Knowledge: A Linguistic Analysis. In Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference (pp. 1582-1595). Limerick, Ireland: Design Research Society. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2018.532 [presentation]
Strahm, B., Gray, C. M., & Vorvoreanu, M. (2018, June). Generating Mobile Application Onboarding Insights Through Minimalist Instruction. In DIS’18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 361-372). New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196727 [ACM Author-Izer, presentation]
Kou, Y., Gray, C. M., Toombs, A. L., & Nardi, B. (2018, April). The Politics of Titling: The Representation of Countries in CHI Papers. In CHI EA ’18: CHI’18 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Paper No. alt16). New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188409 [ACM Author-Izer]
Gray, C. M., Kou, Y., Battles, B., Hoggatt, J., & Toombs, A. L. (2018, April). The Dark (Patterns) Side of UX Design. In CHI’18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Paper No. 534). New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174108 [ACM Author-Izer, presentation]
Toombs, A. L., Morrissey, K., Simpson, E., Gray, C. M., Vines, J., & Balaam, M. (2018, April). Supporting the Complex Social Lives of New Parents. In CHI’18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Paper No. 420). New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173994 [ACM Author-Izer]
Kou, Y., & Gray, C. M. (2018, January). Towards Professionalization in an Online Community of Emerging Occupation: Discourses among UX Practitioners. In GROUP’18: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Supporting Group Work (pp. 322-334). New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3148330.3148352 [ACM Author-Izer]
Kou, Y., Gray, C. M., Toombs, A. L., & Adams, R. S. (2018, January). Knowledge Production and Social Roles in an Online Community of Emerging Occupation: A Study of User Experience Practitioners on Reddit. In Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) (pp. 2068-2077). Waikoloa Village, HI. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/50148
Exter, M. E., Ashby, I., Gray, C. M., Wilder, D., & Krause, T. (2017, June). Systematically Integrating Liberal Education in a Transdisciplinary Design Studio Environment. In Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division. Washington, DC: ASEE. https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2–28901
Gray, C. M., Exter, M. E., & Krause, T. (2017, June). Moving Towards Individual Competence From Group Work in Transdisciplinary Education. In Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Design in Engineering Education Division. Washington, DC: ASEE. https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2–28691
Gray, C. M., & Fernandez, T. F. (2017, June). Developing a Socially-Aware Engineering Identity Through Transdisciplinary Learning. In Proceedings of the Mudd Design Workshop X: Design and the Future of the Engineer of 2020. Claremont, CA: Harvey Mudd College. [preprint, presentation]
Gray, C. M., & Boling, E. (2016, November). Designers’ Articulation and Activation of Instrumental Design Judgments in Cross-Cultural User Research. In DTRS’11: 11th annual Design Thinking Research Symposium. Copenhagen, DK: Copenhagen Business School. [pdf, presentation]
Gray, C. M. (2016, June). What is the Nature and Intended Use of Design Methods?. In Proceedings of the Design Research Society. Brighton, UK: Design Research Society. [pdf, presentation]
Gray, C. M., El Debs, L. D., Exter, M., & Krause, T. S. (2016, June). Instructional Strategies for Incorporating Empathy in Transdisciplinary Technology Education. In Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Engineering Ethics Division. Washington, DC: ASEE. [Nominated for Best Diversity Paper] https://doi.org/10.18260/p.25746
Van Epps, A., Ashby, I., Gray, C. M., & Exter, M. (2016, June). Supporting Student Attainment and Management of Competencies in a Transdisciplinary Degree Program. In Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Multidisciplinary Engineering Division. Washington, DC: ASEE. https://doi.org/10.18260/p.25977
Gray, C. M. (2016, May). “It’s More of a Mindset Than a Method”: UX Practitioners’ Conception of Design Methods. In CHI’16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 4044-4055). New York, NY: ACM Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858410 [ACM Author-Izer, presentation]
Gray, C. M., Toombs, A. L., & McKay, C. (2016, May). Meaning Reconstruction as an Approach to Analyze Critical Dimensions of HCI Research. In CHI EA ’16: CHI’16 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 328-340). New York, NY: ACM Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892571 [ACM Author-Izer, presentation]
Gray, C. M., Yilmaz, S., Daly, S., Seifert, C. M., & Gonzalez, R. (2015, August). Creativity ‘Misrules’: First Year Engineering Students’ Production and Perception of Creativity in Design Ideas. In ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC); 12th International Conference on Design Education (DEC). New York, NY: ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2015-46492 [preprint, presentation]
Gray, C. M., Yilmaz, S., Daly, S., Seifert, C. M., & Gonzalez, R. (2015, July). Supporting Idea Generation Through Functional Decomposition: An Alternative Framing For Design Heuristics. In 2015 International Conference on Engineering Design. Milan, IT: The Design Society. [preprint, presentation]
Boling, E., Gray, C. M., & Smith, K. M. (2015, June). Studio Teaching in the Low-Precedent Context of Instructional Design. In LearnxDesign: The 3rd International Conference for Design Education Researchers and PreK-16 Design Educators (pp. 1417-1431). Chicago, IL: School of the Art Institute of Chicago. [pdf, presentation]
Gray, C. M., & Howard, C. D. (2015, June). “Why are they not responding to critique?”: A student-centered construction of the crit. In LearnxDesign: The 3rd International Conference for Design Education Researchers and PreK-16 Design Educators (pp. 1680-1700). Chicago, IL: School of the Art Institute of Chicago. [pdf, presentation]
Gray, C. M., Yilmaz, S., Daly, S., Seifert, C. M., & Gonzalez, R. (2015, June). What Problem Are We Solving? Encouraging Idea Generation and Effective Team Communication. In LearnxDesign: The 3rd International Conference for Design Education Researchers and PreK-16 Design Educators (pp. 308-329). Chicago, IL: School of the Art Institute of Chicago. [pdf, presentation]
Gray, C. M., Yilmaz, S., Daly, S. R., Seifert, C. M., & Gonzalez, R. (2015, June). Idea Generation Through Empathy: Reimagining the ‘Cognitive Walkthrough’. In Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Design in Engineering Education Division (pp. 26.871.1-26.871.29). Washington, DC: ASEE. http://dx.doi.org/10.18260/p.24208 [preprint, presentation]
Yilmaz, S., Daly, S. R., Seifert, C. M., Gonzalez, R., & Gray, C. M. (2015, June). Expanding evidence-based pedagogy with Design Heuristics. In Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, NSF Grantees Poster Session (pp. 26.711.1-26.711.13). Washington, DC: ASEE. http://dx.doi.org/10.18260/p.24048 [preprint, poster]
Gray, C. M., Seifert, C. M., Yilmaz, S., Daly, S., & Gonzalez, R. (2015, May). What is the Content of “Design Thinking”? Design Heuristics as Conceptual Repertoire. In Proceedings of the Harvey Mudd Design Workshop IX: Design Thinking in Design Education (pp. 19-25). Claremont, CA: Harvey Mudd College. [pdf, presentation]
Gray, C. M., Toombs, A., & Gross, S. (2015, April). Flow of Competence in UX Design Practice. In CHI’15: Proceedings of the 2015 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 3285-3294). New York, NY: ACM Press. [Awarded Best of CHI Honorable Mention, top 5%]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702579 [ACM Author-Izer, presentation]
Gray, C. M., & Howard, C. D. (2014, October). Normativity in Design Communication: Inscribing Design Values in Designed Artifacts. In DTRS’10: 10th annual Design Thinking Research Symposium. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University. [pdf, presentation]
Howard, C. D., & Gray, C. M. (2014, October). Learner v. Expert Design Talk: A Content Analysis of the Discourse of Designerly Talk. In DTRS’10: 10th annual Design Thinking Research Symposium. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University [pdf, ppt].
Gray, C. M., Stolterman, E., & Siegel, M. A. (2014, June). Reprioritizing the Relationship Between HCI Research and Practice: Bubble-Up and Trickle-Down Effects. In DIS’14: Proceedings of the 2014 CHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp.725-734). New York, NY: ACM Press. [Awarded Best Paper, top 1%]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2598595 [ACM Author-Izer, presentation, pecha kucha]
Gray, C. M. (2014, June). Locating the Emerging Design Identity of Students Through Visual and Textual Reflection. In Proceedings of the Design Research Society. Umeå, Sweden. [pdf, presentation]
Gray, C. M. (2014, April). Evolution of Design Competence in UX Practice. In CHI’14: Proceedings of the 2014 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1645-1654). New York, NY: ACM Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557264 [ACM Author-Izer, presentation]
Gray, C. M. (2013, November). Emergent Critique in Informal Design Talk: Reflections of Surface, Pedagogical, and Epistemological Features in an HCI Studio. In Critique 2013: An International Conference Reflecting On Creative Practice in Art, Architecture, and Design (pp. 341-355). Adelaide, AU: The University of South Australia. [pdf, presentation]
Gray, C. M. & Howard, C. D. (2013, November). Expectations of Reciprocity? An Analysis of Critique in Facebook Posts by Student Designers. In Critique 2013: An International Conference Reflecting On Creative Practice in Art, Architecture, and Design (pp. 381-395).Adelaide, AU: The University of South Australia. [pdf, presentation]
Gray, C. M. (2013, June). Discursive Structures of Informal Critique in an HCI Design Studio. In Nordes 2013: Experiments in Design Research (pp. 110-118). Copenhagen, DK/Malmö, SE: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools Architecture, Design and Conservation. [pdf, presentation]
Gray, C. M. (2013, May). Informal Peer Critique and the Negotiation of Habitus in a Design Studio. In DRS // CUMULUS 2013: 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers (pp. 702-714). Oslo, NO: HiOA. [Awarded ECT Foundation Qualitative Inquiry Award]. [pdf, presentation]
Gray, C. M. & Siegel, M. A. (2013, May). Sketching Design Thinking: Representations of Design in Education and Practice. In DRS // CUMULUS 2013: 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers (pp. 2007-2031). Oslo, NO: HiOA. [pdf, presentation]

Short Conference Papers and Other Extended Abstracts

Santos, C., Gunawan, J., Gray, C. M., & Bielova, N. (2024, June). SoK: Towards Collaborative Evidence Collection in Dark Patterns Enforcement. In 8th Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro ’24). IEEE.
Obi, I., & Gray, C. M. (2023, May). Auditing Practitioner Judgment for Algorithmic Fairness Implications. 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (ETHICS), 01–05. https://doi.org/10.1109/ETHICS57328.2023.10154992
Gray, C. M., Chivukula, S. S., Bongard-Blanchy, K., Mathur, A., Gunawan, J., & Schaffner, B. (2023, April). Emerging Transdisciplinary Perspectives to Confront Dark Patterns. Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’23). https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3583745
Gray, C. M., Santos, C., Tong, N., Mildner, T., Rossi, A., Gunawan, J., & Sinders, C. (2023, April). Dark Patterns and the Emerging Threats of Deceptive Design Practices. Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’23). https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3583173
Parsons, P., Gray, C. M., Baigelenov, A., & Carr, I. (2020). Design Judgment in Data Visualization Practice. IEEE VIS Short Paper Proceedings. http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02628
Parsons, P., Rasche, N., Gray, C. M., & Toombs, A. L. (2020). Vertical Integration in UX Design Studios. In 2nd Annual ACM SIGCHI Symposium on HCI Education (EduCHI 2020). Honolulu, HI.
Gray, C. M., & Chivukula, S. S. (2019). Engaging Design Students in Value Discovery as “Everyday Ethicists.” Dialogue: Proceedings of the AIGA Design Educators Community Conferences (Decipher, Vol. 1), 187–189. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11688977
Murdoch-Kitt, K., Gray, C. M., Parsons, P., Toombs, A. L., Louw, M., & Van Gent, E. (2019). Developing Students’ Instrumental Judgment Capacity for Design Research Methods. Dialogue: Proceedings of the AIGA Design Educators Community Conferences (Decipher, Vol. 1), 108–115. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11688977
Toombs, A. L., Dow, A., Vines, J., Gray, C. M., Dennis, B., Clarke, R., & Light, A. (2018, May). Designing for Everyday Care in Communities. In DIS ’18 Companion: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 391-394). New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3197391.3197394 [ACM Author-Izer]
Vorvoreanu, M., Gray, C. M., Parsons, P., & Rasche, N. (2017, May). Advancing UX Education: A Model for Integrated Studio Pedagogy. In CHI’17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1441-1446). New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025726 [ACM Author-Izer]

Posters or Work-In-Progress

Gray, C. M., Gairola, Gray, C. M., Gairola, R., Boucaud, N., Hashmi, M., Chivukula, S. S., Menon, A. R., & Duane, J.-N. (2024, July). Legal Trouble?: UX Practitioners’ Engagement with Law and Regulation. Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. https://doi.org/10.1145/3656156.3663698
Chivukula, S. S., Obi, I., Carlock, T. V., & Gray, C. M. (2023, July). Wrangling Ethical Design Complexity: Dilemmas, Tensions, and Situations. Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 179–183. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563703.3596632
Gray, C. M., Sanchez Chamorro, L., Obi, I., & Duane, J.-N. (2023, July). Mapping the Landscape of Dark Patterns Scholarship: A Systematic Literature Review. Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 188–193. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563703.3596635
Li, Z., Obi, I., Chivukula, S. S., Will, M., Johns, J., Pivonka, A. C., Carlock, T., Menon, A. R., Bharadwaj, A., & Gray, C. M. (2023, May). Co-designing Ethical Supports for Technology Practitioners. 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (ETHICS), 1–1. https://doi.org/10.1109/ETHICS57328.2023.10155098
Gray, C. M., Santos, C., & Bielova, N. (2023, April). Towards a Preliminary Ontology of Dark Patterns Knowledge. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’23). ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585676
Chivukula, S. S., & Gray, C. M. (2020, April). Bardzell’s “Feminist HCI” Legacy: Analyzing Citational Patterns. In CHI EA ’19: CHI’19 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3382936 [ACM Author-Izer]
Chivukula, S. S., Watkins, C., McKay, L., & Gray, C. M. (2019, May). “Nothing Comes Before Profit”: Asshole Design In the Wild. In CHI EA ’19: CHI’19 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Paper No. LBW1279). New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312863 [ACM Author-Izer, poster]
Chivukula, S. S., Brier, J., & Gray, C. M. (2018, June). Dark Intentions or Persuasion? UX Designers’ Activation of Stakeholder and User Values. In DIS’18 Companion: ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 87-91). New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3197391.3205417 [ACM Author-Izer, poster]
Kou, Y., & Gray, C. M. (2018, June). Exploring the Knowledge Creation Practices of UX Designers on Stack Exchange. In DIS’18 Companion: ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 69-74). New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3197391.3205414 [ACM Author-Izer, poster]
Fansher, M., Chivukula, S. S., & Gray, C. M. (2018, April). #darkpatterns: UX Practitioner Conversations About Ethical Design. In CHI EA ’18: CHI’18 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Paper No. LBW082). New York, NY: ACM Press. [ACM Author-Izer, poster] https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188553
Toombs, A. L., Gray, C. M., Zhou, G., & Light, A. (2018, April). Appropriated and Inauthentic Care in Gig-Economy Platforms: An Uber and Lyft Driver Autoethnography. In CHI EA ’18: CHI’18 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Paper No. LBW532). New York, NY: ACM Press. [ACM Author-Izer] https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188657
Brier, J., Gray, C. M., & Kou, Y. (2017, June). In Search of UX Translators: Analyzing Researcher-Practitioner Interactions on Twitter. In DIS’17 Companion: ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 111-115). New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079129 [ACM Author-Izer, poster]
Gray, C. M., & Kou, Y. (2017, June). UX Practitioners’ Engagement with Intermediate-Level Knowledge. In DIS’17 Companion: ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 13-17). New York, NY: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079110 [ACM Author-Izer, poster]

Invited or Juried Conference Publications

Speed, C., Light, A., Siodmok, A., Teasley, S., Vaughan, L., Gray, C. M., Forlano, L., Lindstrom, K., & Lockton, D. (2024, June). Mapping Constellations for Regenerative Design. In Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference, Boston, MA, USA. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.1527
Light, A., Gray, C. M., Lindström, K., Forlano, L., Lockton, D., & Speed, C. (2022). Designing Transformative Futures. In Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference, Bilbao, Spain. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.896
Jones, D., Corazzo, J., Gray, C. M., Boling, E., Lotz, N., Brown, J. B., & Marshalsey, L. (2022). Editorial: Studio Matters. In Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference, Bilbao, Spain. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.1063
Gray, C. M., Toombs, A. L., Light, A., & Vines, J. (2018). Editorial: Ethics, Values, and Designer Responsibility. In Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference (pp. 83-85), Limerick, Ireland. https://doi.org/10.21606/dma.2018.003
Gray, C. M., Jia, X., Watson, C., Wang, Y., Jung, J., & Frick, T. W. (2011). Frameworks for Facilitating Research Thinking: Redesigning a Residential Course for Online Use in Higher Education. Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2011 Convention Proceedings, Jacksonville, Florida. [pdf]

Books

Chivukula, S. S., & Gray, C. M. (in preparation; due to publisher July 2024). Universal Methods of Ethical Design. Rockport.
Boling, E., Brown, J. B., Corazzo, J., Gray, C. M., Jones, D., & Lotz, N. (in press). Studio Properties. Design Teaching Series (Ed. Aaris Sherin), Bloomsbury Visual Arts.

Edited Books

Boling, E., Gray, C. M., Howard, C. D., & Baaki, J. (Eds.) (2021). Historical Instructional Design Cases: ID Knowledge in Context and Practice. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN: 978-0367353704 [publisher website, Amazon.com]
Boling, E., Schwier, R. A., Gray, C. M., Smith, K. M., & Campbell, K. (Eds.) (2016). Studio Teaching in Higher Education: Selected Design Cases. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138902435 [publisher website, Amazon.com]

Book Chapters

Boling, E., & Gray, C. M. (2024). Anthony Cerise. In P. A. Ertmer, K. D. Glazewski, A. A. Koehler, & J. E. Stefaniak (Eds.) The ID CaseBook: Case Studies in Instructional Design (pp. 127–138). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003354468-12
Gray, C. M., Williams, R. M., Parsons, P., & Toombs, A. L., & Westbrook, A. (2023). Trajectories of Student Engagement with Social Justice-Informed Design Work. In B. Hokanson, M. Exter, M. Schmidt, & A. Tawfik (Eds.) Toward Inclusive Learning Design: Social Justice, Equity, and Community (pp. 289-301). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37697-9_22
Gray, C. M. (2023). Instructional designers as ethical mediators. In S. L. Moore & T. A. Dousay (Eds.), Learning and Instructional Design Technology in the Mirror: Integrating Ethics and Social Responsibility into Research and Practice. https://edtechbooks.org/applied_ethics_idt/ethical_mediators
Lachheb, A., Gray, C. M., & Boling, E. (2022). Inscribing a Designer Mindset to Instructional Design Students. In J. Stefaniak & R. Reese (Eds.), The Instructional Designer’s Training Guide: Authentic Practices and Considerations for Mentoring ID and Ed Tech Professionals (pp. 18-28). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003109938-3
Gray, C. M. (2021). “Supervising Women Workers”: The Rise of Instructional Training Films (1944). In E. Boling, C. M. Gray, C. Howard, & J. Baaki (Eds.), Historical Instructional Design Cases: ID Knowledge in Context and Practice (pp. 62-84). New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429330995-6
Gray, C. M., & Howard, C. D. (2021). Setting the Cases in Historical Context. In E. Boling, C. M. Gray, C. Howard, & J. Baaki (Eds.), Historical Instructional Design Cases: ID Knowledge in Context and Practice (pp. 1-9). New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429330995-1
Boling, E., & Gray, C. M. (2021). Instructional Design and User Experience Design: Values and Perspectives Examined through Artifact Analysis. In B. Hokanson, M. Exter, A. Grincewicz, M. Schmidt, & A. A. Tawfik (Eds.). Intersections across disciplines: Interdisciplinarity and learning design (pp. 93-107). Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53875-0_8
Gray, C. M. (2020). Paradigms of Knowledge Production in Human-Computer Interaction: Towards a Framing for Learner Experience (LX) Design. In M. Schmidt, A. A. Tawfik, Y. Earnshaw, and I. Jahnke (Eds.) Learner and User Experience Research: An Introduction for the Field of Learning Design & Technology. EdTech Books. https://edtechbooks.org/ux/paradigms_in_hci
Gray, C. M., Parsons, P., & Toombs, A. L. (2020). Building a Holistic Design Identity Through Integrated Studio Education. In B. Hokanson, G. Clinton, A. Tawfik, A. Grincewicz, & M. B. Schmidt (Eds.) Educational Technology Beyond Content (pp. 43-55). Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37254-5_4
Varner, D., Exter, M. E., & Gray, C. M. (2020). Towards a Content-Agnostic Praxis for Transdisciplinary Education. In B. Hokanson, G. Clinton, A. Tawfik, A. Grincewicz, & M. B. Schmidt (Eds.) Educational Technology Beyond Content (pp. 141-151). Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37254-5_12
Gray, C. M. (2018). Narrative Qualities of Design Argumentation. In B. Hokanson, G. Clinton, & K. Kaminiski (Eds.) Educational Technology and Narrative: Story and Instructional Design (pp. 51-64). Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69914-1_5
Boling, E., & Gray, C. M. (2018). Use of Precedent as a Narrative Practice in Design. In B. Hokanson, G. Clinton, & K. Kaminiski (Eds.) Educational Technology and Narrative: Story and Instructional Design (pp. 259-270). Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69914-1_21
Gray, C. M., & Boling, E. (2017). Designers’ Articulation and Activation of Instrumental Design Judgments in Cross-Cultural User Research. In B. T. Christensen, L. J. Ball, & K. Halskov (Eds.) Analysing Design Thinking: Studies of Cross-Cultural Co-Creation (pp. 191-211). Leiden, NL: CRC Press/ Taylor & Francis. [Selected for publication from DTRS’11]
Gray, C. M. (2016). Emergent Views of Studio. In E. Boling, R. A. Schwier, C. M. Gray, K. M. Smith, & K. Campbell (Eds.) Studio Teaching in Higher Education: Selected Design Cases (pp. 271-281). New York, NY: Routledge.
Gray, C. M., & Smith, K. M. (2016). Critical Views of Studio Education. In E. Boling, R. A. Schwier, C. M. Gray, K. M. Smith, & K. Campbell (Eds.) Studio Teaching in Higher Education: Selected Design Cases (pp. 260-270). New York, NY: Routledge.
Gray, C. M., & Howard, C. D. (2016). Normativity Concerns, Avoided: Instructional Barriers in Designing for Social Change. In R. S. Adams, P. Buzzanell, & J. A. Siddiqui (Eds.) Analyzing Design Review Conversations. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. [Selected for publication from DTRS’10]
Boling, E., & Gray, C. M. (2015). Designerly Tools, Sketching, and Instructional Designers and the Guarantors of Design. In B. Hokanson, G. Clinton, & M. Tracey (Eds.) The Design of Learning Experience: Creating the Future of Educational Technology (pp. 109-126). Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16504-2_8
Gray, C. M. (2015). Critiquing the Role of the Learner and Context in Aesthetic Learning Experiences. In B. Hokanson, G. Clinton, & M. Tracey (Eds.) The Design of Learning Experience: Creating the Future of Educational Technology (pp. 199-213). Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16504-2_14

External Funding

Awarded

PI. Gray, C. M., & Toombs, A. L. (2024). IRES: Digital Civics Exchange (DCX) for Citizen-Centered Artificial Intelligence. National Science Foundation: OISE. (Grant Period: 2024-2027). $449,913. [NSF Award Information TBA]
PI. Gray, C. M. (2019). CHS: Small: “Everyday Ethics” in Sociotechnical Practice. National Science Foundation: IIS. (Grant Period: 2019-2022). $498,520. [NSF Award Information] [+ REU Supplement ’20: $16,000 + REU Supplement ’21: $16,000]
PI. Gray, C. M. (2017). CRII: CHS: Dark patterns, Pragmatist Ethics, and User Experience. National Science Foundation: IIS. (Grant Period: 2017-2019). $167,290. [NSF Award Information] [+ REU Supplement ’17: $16,000 + REU Supplement ’18: $16,000]
Co-PI. Yilmaz, S., & Gray, C. M. (2014). Investigating impacts on the ideation flexibility of engineers. National Science Foundation IUCRC, Iowa State University Center for e-Design, Industry Advisory Board. (Grant Period: 2015-2016). $30,000.

In Review

In Preparation

Not Funded

PI. Gray, C. M., Williams, R. M., Hiniker, A., & Yip, J. (2021, December). Collaborative Research: HCC: Medium: Disrupting Dark Patterns in Software for Children. Submitted to National Science Foundation: IIS. (Grant Period: 2022-2025).
Co-PI. Debs, L., Sparkling, A., & Gray, C. M. (2022, March). FW-HTF-P: Equity and Access Challenges in the Diffusion of Emerging Construction Technologies. Submitted to National Science Foundation. (Grant Period: 2023).
PI. Gray, C. M., Toombs, A. L., & Magana, A. (2021, October). Reflective Scaffolding At Scale (RSaS): Supporting Design Review Experiences in Technology Education. Submitted to National Science Foundation: IIS RETTL. (Grant Period: 2022-2025).
Co-PI. Toombs, A. L., & Gray, C. M. (2021, July). Resilience in Dialogue for Transformation: Co-creating strategies and socio-technical infrastructures with marginalised communities and local government. Submitted to Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities (T-AP). (Grant Period: 2022-2024).
PI. Gray, C. M. (2020, July). CAREER: Identifying Knowledge and Translational Pathways in a Volatile Community of User Experience Practice. Submitted to National Science Foundation: IIS. (Grant Period: 2021-2026).
Co-PI. Exter, M. E., & Gray, C. M. (2019, February). Implementing Interdisciplinarity in Higher Education: Characteristics, Supports, and Barriers. Spencer Foundation: Small Research Grant. (Grant Period: 2019-2021).
Co-PI. Asunda, P., Castillo, L., Gray, C. M., Kulkarni, M., & Rebello, C. (2018, November). iTEAMS: Integrating Transdisciplinary Experiences, Argumentation, and Mastery Learning in STEM Environments. Submitted to National Science Foundation: DRL.
Co-PI. Tan, H., Gray, C. M., & Toombs, A. L. (2018, October). CHS: Medium: The Blind Marathoner Project: A Framework for Transdisciplinary Collaboration between Engineers and Designers. Submitted to National Science Foundation: IIS.
PI. Gray, C. M., & Toombs, A. L. (2018, October). Facilitating Meso-Scale Qualitative Analysis of Structured Data. Submitted to Google.
PI. Gray, C. M. (2018, July). CAREER: Bridging the Gap: Towards A Practice-Led UX Pedagogy. Submitted to National Science Foundation: IIS. (Grant Period: 2019-2024).
Co-PI. Exter, M. E., & Gray, C. M. (2018, February). An Outlook on Interdisciplinarity in Higher Education: Trends and Obstacles based on Administrator and Faculty Perspectives. Spencer Foundation: Small Research Grant. (Grant Period: 2018-2020).
Co-PI. Toombs, A. L., & Gray, C. M. (2018, February). Standard Grant: Supporting Online Community Formation Through Care. Submitted to National Science Foundation: SBE. (Grant Period: 2018-2021).
PI. Gray, C. M., & Toombs, A. L. (2017, October). Facilitating Meso-Scale Qualitative Analysis of Structured Data. Submitted to Google. (Grant Period: 2018-2019).
PI. Gray, C. M., Adams, R. S., & Kou, Y. (2017, November). CHS: Small: Distributed Expertise and Professionalization in Emerging Occupations. Submitted to National Science Foundation: IIS. (Grant Period: 2018-2021).
PI. Gray, C. M. (2017, July). CAREER: Bridging the Gap: Towards A Practice-Led Undergraduate UX Pedagogy. Submitted to National Science Foundation: IIS. (Grant Period: 2018-2023).
PI. Gray, C. M., Adams, R. S., & Kou, Y. (2016, November). CHS: Small: Online Community Socialization and Professionalization in Emerging Occupations. Submitted to National Science Foundation: IIS. (Grant Period: 2017-2020).
PI. Gray, C. M., Exter, M. E., Shaurette, M., & El Debs, L. d.C. (2016, September). Building Metacognition Through Critique Across Technology Disciplines. Submitted to National Science Foundation: EHR. (Grant Period: 2017-2020).
PI. Gray, C. M. (2015, September). CRII: CHS: “Dark patterns” of user experience: Understanding the role of ethics in UX design. Submitted to National Science Foundation: CISE. (Grant Period: 2016-2018).
Co-PI. Gray, C. M., Exter, M. E., Dionne, R., & Shaurette, M. (2015, November). IUSE: EHR: Metacognition and critique in transdisciplinary undergraduate technology education. Submitted to National Science Foundation: DUE. (Grant Period: 2016-2019).

Internal Funding

Awarded

Co-PI. Giri, N., Gray, C. M., & Strimel, G. (2021). Design Competency Development in Game Design Education for Better Job Role Alignment. Future Work and Learning Research Impact Area. (Grant Period: 2021-2022). $8,000
PI. Gray, C. M., Exter, M., Huston, D., & Huang, W. J. (2020). Building and Supporting Critique Environments Across Project-Based Disciplinary Contexts. Determining Best Practices in Higher Education Post-COVID-19. (Grant Period: 2020-2021). $32,172
PI. Gray, C. M., El Debs, L.d.C., Asunda, P. (2019). Security and Ethics in the Era of Big Data. Discovery Park Undergraduate Research Initiative (DURI). (Grant Period: Summer 2017). $12,000
PI. Gray, C. M. (2017). Security and User Deception in Interactive Computing Systems. Discovery Park Undergraduate Research Initiative (DURI). (Grant Period: Summer 2017). $3,000
PI. Gray, C. M. (2016). Development of Ethically-Aware Problem Framing Ability. Purdue Research Foundation Summer Faculty Grant. (Grant Period: 2016). $10,200.
PI. Gray, C. M. (2016). Mapping User Experience Competencies Within Professional Communities On Social Media. Purdue Polytechnic Post-Doctoral Award. (Grant Period: 2016-2018). $100,000.
PI. Gray, C. M. (2016). Design Thinking Research Symposium 11, Copenhagen, DK. Purdue Research Foundation International Travel Grant, FY 16-17. $1,250.

Conference Presentations

Peer Reviewed

Santos, C., Bielova, N., Utz, C., Gray, C. M., Gairola, R., & Mertens, G. (2024, February). Which online platforms should be regulated under Article 25 of the DSA?. The DSA and Platform Regulation Conference 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Gray, C. M., Bielova, N., Santos, C., & Gunawan, J. (2023, November). UX Research Practices as a Site of Resistance Against Dark Patterns. 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) 2023 Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawai’i.
Bielova, N., Santos, C., & Gray, C. M. (2023, September). Two Worlds Apart! Closing the Gap between Regulating EU Consent and User Studies. Beyond Data Protection Conference (BDPC): Regulating Information and Protection against Risks of the Digital Society, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Gray, C. M., Santos, C., Bielova, N., & Gunawan, J. (2023, June). What Evidence is Needed to Prove the Existence of Dark Patterns?. Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) 2023, Boulder, CO.
Santos, C., Gray, C. M., & Bielova, N. (2022, June). Usable and accessible GDPR consent: Is it possible?. Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) 2022, Boston, MA.
Gray, C. M., & Chivukula, S. S. (2019, April). (Un)Designing “Darkness” in Computing Education. Paper Session at the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
Gray, C. M., & Toombs, A. L. (2018, April). Forming a Design Identity in Computing Education Through Reflection and Peer Interaction. Paper Session at the 2018 AERA Annual Meeting, New York, NY. [presentation]
Gray, C. M., Exter, M. E., Ashby, I., & Varner, D. (2018, April). Breaking the Model, Breaking the “Rules:” Instructional Design in a Transdisciplinary Learning Environment. Paper Session at the 2018 AERA Annual Meeting, New York, NY. [presentation]
Exter, M. E., Gray, C. M., & Fernandez, T. F. (2017, June). Transdisciplinary Design Education: Do Differing Disciplinary Backgrounds Divide or Unify?. Poster Session at the Mudd Design Workshop X: Design and the Future of the Engineer of 2020, Claremont, CA. [abstract]
Boling, E., Gray, C. M., & Smith, K. M. (2017, April). The designer in the design student: The evolution of feedback in an instructional graphics studio. Roundtable Session at the 2017 AERA Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
Wilder, D., & Gray, C. M. (2016, November). Enculturating Peer and Instructor Critique in a Transdisciplinary Technology Studio Environment. Poster Session at the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) Transforming Undergraduate STEM Education Conference: Implications for 21st Century Society, Boston, MA. [pdf]
Gray, C. M., Krause, T., & Exter, M. (2016, October). Barriers to Developing Empathic Ability: Gender Inclusivity in Technology Education. Concurrent Session at Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) International Convention, Las Vegas, NV.
Gray, C. M., & Howard, C. D. (2016, April). Inverting Critique: Emergent Technologically-Mediated Critique Practices of Developing Design Students. Paper Session at the 2016 AERA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. [presentation]
Boling, E., & Gray, C. M. (2016, April). Examining the Prior Knowledge of Instructional Design Practitioners Studying Visual Methods at the Masters Level. Poster Session at the 2016 AERA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. [pdf]
Gray, C. M. (2016, April). Developing an Ethically-Aware Design Character through Problem Framing. Paper Session at the 2016 AERA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. [presentation]
Howard, C. D., & Gray, C. M. (2016, April). Meaning Making in an Interactive Video Annotation Environment. Paper Session at the 2016 AERA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Boling, E., & Gray, C. M. (2015, November). Students’ lived knowledge applied to learning visual methods in design. Paper Session at 47th Annual International Visual Literacy Association Conference, San Francisco, CA.
Boling, E., Gray, C. M., & Smith, K. M. (2015, April). Who are these “novices”? Challenging the deficit view of design students. Paper Session at AERA Annual Meeting 2015, Chicago, IL.
Gray, C. M. (2015, April). Struggle Over Representation in the Studio: Critical Pedagogy in Design Education. Paper Session at AERA Annual Meeting 2015, Chicago, IL. [presentation]
Gray, C. M., Yilmaz, S., Seifert, C. M., Daly, S., & Gonzalez, R. (2015, April). What Happens when Creativity is Exhausted? Design Tools as an Aid for Ideation. Paper Session at AERA Annual Meeting 2015, Chicago, IL. [presentation]
Boling, E., Gray, C. M., & Demiral-Uzan, M. (2014, November). Stop Telling Designers What To Do: Reframing Instructional Design Education Through the Lens of ID Practice. Concurrent Session at AECT International Convention 2014, Jacksonville, FL. [presentation]
Gray, C. M. (2014, November). Exploring the Lived Experience of Learners: Broadening our Understanding of Aesthetic Learning Experiences. Concurrent Session at AECT International Convention 2014, Jacksonville, FL. [presentation]
Gray, C. M., & Boling, E. (2014, November). Design in the “Real World”: Situating Academic Conceptions of ID Practice. Concurrent Session at AECT International Convention 2014, Jacksonville, FL. [presentation]
Howard, C. D., & Gray, C. M. (2014, November). Extra-curricular Design Learning: Emergent Critique in Learners’ SNS Interactions. Concurrent Session at AECT International Convention 2014, Jacksonville, FL. [ppt]
Gray, C. M. (2014, April). Accounting for Learner Agency in an Aesthetic Learning Experience. Research Study Session at IST Conference 2014, Bloomington, IN.
Harris, M., Gray, C. M., Boling, E., Dagli, C., Demiral-Uzan, M., Ergulec, F., Gyabak, K., Kizilboga, R., Tan, V., & Tomita, K. (2014, April). Design Judgments in Instructional Design Practice. Research Study Session at IST Conference 2014, Bloomington, IN.
Boling, E., Gray, C. M., & Tan, V. (2014, April). Instructional Design In Action: Observing the Judgments of ID Practitioners. Paper Session at AERA Annual Meeting 2014, Philadelphia, PA. [presentation, paper]
Gray, C. M. (2013, November). The Hidden Curriculum of the Design Studio: Student Engagement in Informal Critique. Concurrent Session at AECT International Convention 2013, Anaheim, CA. [presentation]
Gray, C. M. (2013, November). Classroom Reflection as a Tool to Externalize Conceptions of Design. Poster Session at AECT International Convention 2013, Anaheim, CA. [poster, handout]
Gray, C. M. (2013, March). Informal Peer Critique and the Negotiation of Habitus in a Design Studio. Research Paper Session at IST Conference 2013, Bloomington, IN.
Gray, C. M. & Siegel, M. A. (2013, March). Sketching Design Thinking: Representations of Design in Education and Practice. Research Paper Session at IST Conference 2013, Bloomington, IN.
Boling, E., Altuwaijri, A., Jung, J., Gray, C. M., Yildirim, C., Modell, M. G., Howard, C., Ergulec, F., & Demiral, M. (2012, November). Learners’ Strategies for Interpreting Instructional Images. Concurrent Session at AECT International Convention 2012, Louisville, KY. [presentation]
Gray, C. M. (2012, November). Design Thinking in a Graduate Design Studio: Personal and Pedagogical Factors. Concurrent Session at AECT International Convention 2012, Louisville, KY. [proposal, presentation]
Gray, C. M. (2012, November). Verbalization of Design Thinking through Informal Peer Critique. Concurrent Session at AECT International Convention 2012, Louisville, KY. [proposal, presentation]
Boling, E., Altuwaijri, A., Jung, J., Yildirim, C., Gray, C., Modell, M., & Howard, C. (2012, March). Strategies for Interpreting Instructional Images Used to Support Language Learning. Indiana University Bloomington. Research Paper Session at IST Conference 2012, Bloomington, IN. [presentation]
Gray, C. M. (2012, March). The Role of Personal and Pedagogical Factors in Graduate Design Education. Indiana University Bloomington. Research Paper Session at IST Conference 2012, Bloomington, IN. [presentation]
Jung, J., Gray, C., Howard, C., Kwon, S., Modell, M., & Boling, E. (2011, November). Preparation of Visual Materials to Study How EFL Learners Use Images in the Learning Process. Roundtable Discussion at AECT International Convention 2011, Jacksonville, FL. [handout]
Watson, C., Gray, C., Jia, K., Jung, J., & Wang, Y. (2011, November). A Case Study in Designing Online Instruction Using van Merriënboer’s Ten Steps to Complex Learning. Concurrent Session at AECT International Convention 2011, Jacksonville, FL. [presentation]
Altinay, B., Altuwaijri, A., Callison, M., Gray, C., Jung, E., Jung, J., & Yildirim, C. (2011, February). A Needs Assessment of Distance Education in the School of Education at Indiana University Bloomington. Poster Session at IST Conference 2011, Bloomington, IN. [poster]
Boling, E., Howard, C., Altuwaijri, A., Caldwell, K., Gray, C., Jung, J., Kwon, S., Modell, M., Whiting, J., Wu, T., & Yildirim, C. (2011, February). Visuals for Learning. Roundtable Discussion at IST Conference 2011, Bloomington, IN. [presentation, video]
Watson, C., Gray, C., Jia, K., Jung, J., Wang, Y., & Frick, T. (2011, February). A Case Study in Designing Online Instruction using van Merriënboer’s 4C/ID model. Roundtable Discussion at IST Conference 2011, Bloomington, IN.
Gray, C. M. (2009, June). Rapid e-learning: How do we get from here to there?. Upstate Technology Conference 2010, Greenville, SC. [presentation]

Invited

Webb, C. J. (moderator), Gray, C. M., Lim, D., & Stonier, J. (2024, March). Balancing Act: The Ethical Tightrope of AI Deployment. Invited panel at the International Trademark Association (INTA) Business of AI Conference, New York, NY, USA.
Bielova, N. (moderator), Gray, C. M., Litvine, L., Pailhès, B., & Cuijpers, D. (2023, May). Dark Patterns: Definitions and Evidence for Regulators. Invited panel at the 16th International Conference on Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection (CPDP), Brussels, Belgium
Gray, C. M. (2021, May). Infrastructuring the Vertically-Integrated Studio: Challenges and Opportunities to Build Student Engagement and Ownership. Invited talk at Polytechnic Summit, TU Dublin/Virtual.
Gray, C. M. (2018, August). Developing Students’ Transdisciplinary Thinking in User Experience Design Pedagogy. Invited talk at International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education (IIEE) Conference, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Gray, C. M. (2018, August). Tangible Embodied Interaction: Beyond the Screen and into Our Everyday Lives. Invited talk at Future Learning and Innovative Talents Forum, Sino-Finnish Joint Learning Innovation Institute, Xi’an, China.
Gray, C. M., Parsons, P., & Toombs, A. L. (2018, June). The Integrated Design Studio as an Approach to Transdisciplinary Design Learning. Invited talk at Polytechnic Summit, Lima, Peru.
Exter, M. E., Gray, C. M., & Smith, M. (2017, June). Integrating Liberal Education Perspectives in a Transdisciplinary Design Studio. Invited talk at Polytechnic Summit, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. [presentation]
Gray, C. M., Vorvoreanu, M., Parsons, P., & Rasche, N. (2017, June). Transforming User Experience Design Education Through Integrated Learning. Invited talk at Polytechnic Summit, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. [presentation]
Gray, C. M. (2015, November). Building a Multidimensional View of Professional Practice through Trace and In Situ Data Collection. Invited talk at Academics and Practitioners: Symposium on Connecting HCI and UX, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Tracey, M. W., Boling, E., Campbell, K., & Gray, C. M. (2014, November). Design of Learning Experience: The 2014 AECT Research Symposium. Invited panel discussion at the Association for Educational Communication and Technology Conference, Jacksonville, FL.
Gray, C. M. (2013, November). Informal Peer Critique and the Negotiation of Habitus in a Design Studio. Invited Concurrent Session for ECT Foundation Qualitative Inquiry Award at AECT International Convention 2013, Anaheim, CA. [presentation]

Workshops

Refereed

Gray, C. M., Gunawan, J., Schäfer, R., Bielova, N., Sánchez Chamorro, L., Seaborn, K., Mildner, T., & Sandhaus, H. (2024, May). Mobilizing Research and Regulatory Action on Dark Patterns and Deceptive Design Practices. Workshop at CHI 2024 (CHI’24), Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA. [website]
Schraffenberger, H., Gellert, R., Gray, C. M., Rossi, A., Santos, C., & (2024, January 29-February 2). Fair Patterns for Online Interfaces. Workshop at the Lorentz Center.
Gray, C. M., MacDonald, C. M., Lallemand, C., Oleson, A., Carter, A. R. L., St-Cyr, O., & Pitt, C. (2023, April). EduCHI 2023: 5th Annual Symposium on HCI Education. Symposium at CHI 2023 (CHI’23), Hamburg, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3573790 [website]
MacDonald, C. M., St-Cyr, O., Gray, C. M., Potter, L. E., Lallemand, C., Vasilchenko, A., Sin, J., Carter, A. R. L., Pitt. Caroline, Sari, E., Padhi, D. R., & Pillai, A. G. (2022, May). EduCHI 2022: 4th Annual Symposium on HCI Education. Symposium at CHI 2022 (CHI’22), New Orleans, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503703 [website]
Lukoff, K., Hiniker, A., Gray, C. M., Mathur, A., & Chivukula, S. S. (2021, May). What Can CHI Do About Dark Patterns? Workshop at CHI 2021 (CHI’21), Virtual Conference. [ACM Author-Izer; website] https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3441360
MacDonald, C. M., St-Cyr, O., Gray, C. M., Potter, L. E., Sin, J., Vasilchenko, A., & Churchill, E. (2021, May). EduCHI 2021: 3rd Annual Symposium on HCI Education. Symposium at CHI 2021 (CHI’21), Virtual Conference. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3441320 [ACM Author-Izer; website]
St-Cyr, O., MacDonald, C. M., Gray, C. M., Potter, L. E., Vasilchenko, A., Sin, J., & Churchill, E. (2020, April). EduCHI 2020: 2nd Annual Symposium on HCI Education. Symposium at CHI 2020 (CHI’20), Honolulu, HI. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3375066 [ACM Author-Izer; website]
Gray, C. M., Chivukula, S. S., Toombs, A. L., & Light, A. (2018, June 25). Visualizing Values to Analyze Designers’ Ethical Responsibility. Workshop at Design Research Society 2018, Limerick, Ireland. [preprint]
Toombs, A. L., Dow, A., Vines, J., Gray, C. M., Dennis, B., Clarke, R., & Light, A. (2018, June 6). Designing for Everyday Care in Communities. Workshop at Designing Interactive Systems 2018 (DIS’18), Hong Kong. https://doi.org/10.1145/3197391.3197394 [ACM Author-Izer]
Boling, E., Howard, C. D., Gray, C. M., & Baaki, J. (2016, October 17). Student Design Case SLAM. Workshop at AECT International Convention 2016, Las Vegas, NV.
Gray, C. M., & Hu, Y. (2015, November 9-10). Service Design Workshop: Design for Fairness. Workshop at the 2015 Global Chinese Industrial Design Conference (GDIDC), Changsha, Hunan Province, China.
Gray, C. M., Yilmaz, S., Daly, S., Seifert, C. M., & Gonzalez, R. (2015, June 30). Building Students’ Ideation Ability through Design Heuristics. Workshop at LearnxDesign: The 3rd International Conference for Design Education Researchers and PreK-16 Design Educators, Chicago, IL.
Gray, C. M., Yilmaz, S., & Daly, S. (2015, June 14). Innovative Idea Generation for Engineering Design. Workshop at ASEE Annual Conference 2015, Seattle, WA.
Boling, E., Gray, C. M., & Howard, C. D. (2013, October 30). Design Case Workshop: International Journal of Designs for Learning. Workshop at AECT International Convention 2013, Anaheim, CA.
Boling, E., Smith, K. M., Howard, C. M., & Gray, C. (2012, November 3). Prospective Authors’ Workshop: Design Cases and the International Journal of Designs for Learning. AECT International Convention 2012, Louisville, KY.

Invited

Gray, C. M., & Toombs, A. L. (2017, July 19). Qualitative Inquiry: Thematic Analysis, Meaning Reconstruction, and Data Management. Open Lab, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom.
Gray, C. M. (2015, April 10). Selling Your Design: Communicating Problem Finding and Exploration Strategies. Industrial Design Workshop Series, College of Design, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
Gray, C. M., & Yilmaz, S. (2015, April 3). Framing the Problem: Strategies for Problem Finding and Exploration. Industrial Design Workshop Series, College of Design, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
Gray, C. M., Yilmaz, S., & Dhadphale, T. (2014, October 10). Finding the ‘Right Design’: An Introduction to Problem Exploration. Industrial Design Workshop Series, College of Design, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
Gray, C. M. (2014, September 24).Collaborative Idea Generation through Functional Decomposition. Guest Lecturer, IND D-301, Industrial Design Studio III. Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
Gray, C. M. (2012, November 28). Dossier Development Workshop. Student Workshop, Graduates in Instructional Systems Technology (GIST) Professional Development Series. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Invited Talks

Keynote

2024, April 10. Invited Keynote Speaker. Envisioning the Future of Supporting Ethical Design Practices. Research Network for Responsible Danish Design (ResQ), Copenhagen, Denmark.
2024, March 1. Invited Keynote Speaker. Fostering Everyday Ethical Practices in Design. Indiana University Instructional Systems Technology (IST) Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
2024, January 29. Invited Keynote Speaker. An Ontology of Dark Patterns: Definitions and Structures for Transdisciplinary Action. Lorentz Center Workshop on Fair Patterns for Online Interfaces, Leiden, The Netherlands.
2023, November 24. Invited Keynote Speaker. Developing and Sustaining Competence in HCI Education. International Eastern Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (IECHCI2023), Hybrid and Erzurum, Türkiye.
2023, July 19. Invited Keynote Speaker. Dark Patterns in a Surveillance Capitalistic World. From C-3PO to HAL: Opening The Discourse About The Dark Side of Multi-Modal Social Agents Workshop at the 2023 ACM International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI 2023), Hybrid and Eindhoven, Netherlands.
2023, April 5. Invited Keynote Speaker. Symposium Eerlijk Design in E-commerce. Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM), The Hague, Netherlands.
2022, October 19. Invited Keynote Speaker. Mapping the Methodological Landscape of Dark Patterns Detection. Workshop on Future Proof Methods for Measuring and Detecting Dark Patterns, Utrecht University. Utrecht, Netherlands.
2020, October 20. Invited Keynote Speaker. “Dark Patterns” and Designer Responsibility. The Influence of Design on Privacy: Building Expertise in New Zealand. Delivered via Zoom to Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
2019, May 4. Invited Keynote Speaker. Making the Case for HCI Education: Developing and Sustaining Competence in Global HCI Education. EduCHI 2019: Global Perspectives on HCI Education, Co-located with the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Glasgow, Scotland.
2015, November 7. Invited Keynote Speaker. Origins of UX Design Culture: Building Knowledge Across Education and Practice. China Universities Industrial Design Education Seminar 2015 & the 11th Global Chinese Industrial Design Conference (GCIDC), Changsha, Hunan Province, China.

Research Presentation

Gray, C. M. (2024, September 26). “Dark Patterns” in Technology Practices: Challenges and Opportunities. UX Akron, Online.
Gray, C. M. (2024, April 9). The Growing Threat of “Dark Patterns” (Or, What Does it Mean to be an Ethical Designer?). Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Gray, C. M. (2024, March 27). The Growing Threat of “Dark Patterns” in Technology Practices. Meeting of the Indiana UXPA Chapter of the User Experience Professionals Association, Carmel, Indiana.
Gray, C. M. (2023, May 11). Deceptive Design and the Growing Threat of “Dark Patterns” in Technology Practices. Forum Numerica, Inria Centre at Université Côte D’Azur, Sophia Antipolis, France.
Gray, C. M. (2023, March 7). Deceptive Design and the Growing Threat of “Dark Patterns” in Technology Practices. Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.
Gray, C. M. (2023, February 23). “Ditching Deceptive Design” Panelist at the “Privacy, Seriously” event held by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
Gray, C. M. (2022, February 2). Masterclass: Employing “Everyday Ethics” in Design Practices. Swansea University, Swansea, Wales.
Gray, C. M. (2022, February 2). Combatting Dark Patterns through HCI Scholarship and Regulation. Swansea University, Swansea, Wales.
Gray, C. M. (2022, January 25). Dark Patterns and Engaging Designers in “Everyday Ethics”. Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.
Gray, C. M. (2022, November 2). Dark Patterns and the Potential for “Everyday Ethics.” Peterson Speaker Series, Weber State University, Ogden, UT.
Gray, C. M. (2022, October 27). How Can Design Methods Support Everyday Ethics in Design Practice?. Department of Industrial Design, TU Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Gray, C. M. (2022, October 6). Deceptive Design and the Growing Threat of “Dark Patterns” in Technology Practices. Open Lab, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Gray, C. M. (2022, October 3). Confronting Dark Patterns through Everyday Ethical Practices. Invited Talk at the School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Gray, C. M. (2021, September 14). Dark Patterns, Ethical Engagement, and the Possibility for Action. Invited Talk at BostonCHI, Virtual. [video]
Gray, C. M. (2021, September 9). Translational Design Research: A Provocation for Research Quality. Invited Talk at the Design Research Society Festival of Emergence: A Research Quality Moment, Virtual.
Gray, C. M. (2020, September 3). “Dark Patterns” and the Languaging of Evil. Invited Talk at the Bi-Annual David Hutton Interdisciplinary Lecture Series, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
Gray, C. M. (2019, September 2). Exploring Dark Patterns and Conceptions of Designer Responsibility. Invited Lecture at the 4th Interdisciplinary Summerschool on Privacy, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Gray, C. M. (2019, February 4). Building Transdisciplinary Design Capability through an Integrated Studio Approach. Invited Talk at Interaction 19: Interaction Design Education Summit, Seattle, WA. [video]
Gray, C. M. (2018, October 17). Ontology, Mindset, and Conception of Design Methods in UX Education and Practice. Invited Talk at the Instructional Psychology & Technology Seminar Series / Creativity, Innovation, & Design Lecture Series, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. [video]
Gray, C. M. (2018, September 14). Ethical Engagement and the Dark Side of User Experience Design. Invited Talk at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute Seminar Series, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. [video]
Gray, C. M. (2018, August). Developing Students’ Transdisciplinary Thinking in User Experience Design Pedagogy. Invited Talk at the International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education (IIEE) Conference, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Gray, C. M. (2018, August). Tangible Embodied Interaction: Beyond the Screen and into Our Everyday Lives. Invited Talk at the Future Learning and Innovative Talents Forum, Sino-Finnish Joint Learning Innovation Institute, Xi’an, China.
Gray, C. M. (2017, June 16). Dark Patterns and an Ethic of Designerly Care. Open Lab, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom.
Gray, C. M. (2016, November 18). Ontology, Mindset, and Conception of Design Methods in UX Education and Practice. Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Gray, C. M., & Toombs, A. L. (2016, November 18). Tracing Meaning-Making Through Reconstructive Analysis. Participatory Information Technology Colloquium, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Gray, C. M. (2016, November 9). Translating Studio Practices to Technology Education. Computer Science Colloquium, College of Sciences and Humanities, Ball State University, Muncie, IN.
Gray, C. M. (2016, October 14). Bridging the Divide: Developing and Sustaining UX Competence in Education and Practice. Human-Centered Computing Colloquia Speaker Series, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indianapolis, IN.

Guest Lecturer

2020, December 4. Guest Lecturer. Dark Patterns and Designer Responsibility. Inria, Sophia Antipolis, France.
2020, October 27. Guest Lecturer, SI 482, Interaction Design Studio. Dark Patterns and Designer Responsibility. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
2019, November 19. Guest Lecturer, “Dark Patterns” and Ethical Engagement in Design Activity. Instructional Design & Technology Program, The University of Tampa, Tampa, FL. [video]
2017, February 22. Guest Lecturer, TECH 69700, Qualitative Research Methods In Technology Studies. Interviewing Techniques. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
2017, February 16. Guest Lecturer, CGT 27208, User Experience Design Studio III: Cross-Channel. Critical and Reflective Design. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
2016, October 3 and 5. Guest Lecturer, PTEC 30800, Deep Immersion. Bodystorming and Embodied Ideation. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
2016, September 26 and 28. Guest Lecturer, CGT 41100, Contemporary Problems In Applied Computer Graphics. Introduction to Research and Evaluation Methods. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
2015, October 22. Guest Lecturer, EDCI 62700, Educational Software Design. Wireframing and Rapid Prototyping Techniques. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
2015, September 30. Invited Speaker, IT 566, Understanding Online Interaction. “The Crit” as Technologically Mediated Assessment. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
2015, April 1. Invited Speaker, CI 615 B, Seminar in Instructional Technology. Locating Learner Experience in Instructional Design Theory and Practice. Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
2015, February 27. Invited Speaker, HCI 591 XE, Seminar in Human Computer Interaction. Building and Performing UX Competencies: Moving From Theory to Practice. Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
2014, October 9. Guest Lecturer, C I-512, Research Trends in Digital Learning. Creating and Disseminating Design Precedent. Iowa State University, Ames, IA. [presentation]
2014, January 30. Developing a Designerly Identity: Implications for Design Education and Practice. Invited Address, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
2013, November 13. Guest Lecturer, INFO-I542, Foundations of Human-Computer Interaction. Visual Aesthetics and Psychological Approaches to HCI. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
2012, October 10. Connecting Research and Practice in Human-Computer Interaction. Discussion with practitioner Christian Beck. Connect HCI/d Podcast, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
2012, February 9. Guest Lecturer, EDUC-R341: Multimedia in Instructional Technology. Using Adobe Photoshop for Web Production. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
2011, February 8. Guest Lecturer, EDUC-R341: Multimedia in Instructional Technology. Strategies for Visual Integration on the Web. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Professional Service

Editorial

2024-present. Associate Editor, Designing.
2023-present. Editorial Board Member, Advanced Design Research.
2022-present. Associate Editor, ACM Journal on Responsible Computing.
2020-2023. Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member, Design Studies. [in July 2023, the editorial board and editors resigned in protest to Elsevier’s hostile takeover]
2014-present. Advisory Board Member, International Journal of Designs for Learning.
Gray, C. M., & Howard, C. D. (Eds.) (2014). Historic Design Cases, Special Issue of International Journal of Designs for Learning, 5(2). [table of contents]

Professional Leadership & Committees

2023-present. Education Committee Chair, ACM SIGCHI.
2023-2025. Executive Board, Design Research Society.
2022-2028. International Advisory Council Member, Design Research Society.
2017-2019. Program Chair and SIG Chair, Design and Technology SIG, American Educational Research Association (AERA).
2016-2017. Secretary/Treasurer, Design and Technology SIG, American Educational Research Association (AERA).
2013-2014. Design & Development Board Associate, Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT).
2013-2014. Research, Development, External Partnerships Committee. Indiana University School of Education.
2013-2014. Departmental Representative, Graduate and Professional Student Organization (GPSO), Indiana University.
2012-2014. President/Past-President, Graduates in Instructional Systems Technology (GIST).
2014. Selection Committee Chair, IST Conference, Indiana University.
2012-2013. Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) Design & Development Board Representative, Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT).
2012-2013. Faculty Search Committee: Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University.

School and Department Leadership & Committees

2024-present. Policy Committee Member (School)
2024-present. Graduate Program Committee Member (Department)
2024-present. Luddy Web Committee Member (School)
2024-2025. Search Committee Chair (Department)
2023-present. Human-Computer Interaction Design Program Director (Department)
2017-2022. User Experience (UX) Design Program Lead (Department)
2020, 2022. Search Committee Chair (Department)
2021. Polytechnic Dean Search Committee Member (College)
2021. Polytechnic Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee Member (College)
2018-2021. Research Advisory Council Member (College)
2019-2021. Realizing the Digital Enterprise Research Impact Area Co-Lead (College)
2018-2019. Communities and Civic Engagement Research Impact Area Co-Lead (College)
2017. Polytechnic Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Learning Innovation Committee Member (College)
2017-2019. Graduate Education Committee Member (College)
2017-2019. Graduate Committee Co-Chair (Department)

Reviewing

Ad Hoc Journal Reviewing

Art, Design, and Communication in Higher Education; Advances in Engineering Education; Antipode; CoDesign; Design and Technology Education; Design and Culture; Design Studies; Educational Technology Research & Development; Human Technology; International Journal of Design; International Journal of Designs for Learning; International Journal of Engineering Education; International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology, and Education; International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction; Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning; Interacting with Computers; Journal of Computing in Higher Education; Journal of Design Research; Journal of Engineering Education; Journal of Learning Design; Journal of Online Learning and Teaching; New Media and Society; Review of Educational Research; TechTrends; Transactions on Computing Education; Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction; Transactions on Social Computing

Conference

2024. Design Research Society [’24 Program Chair].
2013-present. ACM SIGCHI: CHI [’19, ’20, ’21, ’22 AC; ’20 Awards, ’21 Awards, ’22 Awards], EduCHI [’20, ’21, ’22, ’23 PC] DIS [’16, ’17, ’18, ’19, ’20 Papers AC; ’18 PWiP AC; ’23, ’24 SC], Creativity & Cognition [’19 AC], CSCW [’19-’21 AC, ’21 Awards, ’22 Awards], MobileHCI.
2016, 2018, 2022. Design Research Society [’18 Track Chair; ’22 Track Co-Chair].
2013-2019. AERA Annual Meeting [’18 SIG Program Chair].
2014-2018. ASEE Annual Conference: ERM, Engineering Ethics, DEED, LEES, MULTI, and NEE Divisions.
2018. Decipher (AIGA + DARIA).
2018, 2020. NordiCHI.
2012-2016. AECT International Convention: Design & Development; Research & Theory; and Culture, Learning, and Technology Divisions.
2015. ASME IDETC Conference.
2015. LearnxDesign Conference (DRS//CUMULUS//Design-Ed).
2015. Online Learning Consortium (formerly Sloan-C) International Conference.
2013, 2015. Nordes Conference.
2012-2014. Indiana University Instructional Systems Technology Conference.

Professional Affiliations

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (2012-present)
Design Research Society (DRS) (2013-present)
American Educational Research Association (AERA) (2014-2022)
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) (2015-2020)