Identity Lab

We study how identity is
designed, represented and
experienced through technology

Projects / View more

  • Account Closure

    Account Closure

  • Suicide Bereavement Support

    Suicide Bereavement Support

  • Post-Break-Up Identities

    Post-Break-Up Identities

  • Queer Identities on Dating Apps

    Queer Identities on Dating Apps

  • Death & the Social Network

    Death & the Social Network

  • Digital Hospice

    Digital Hospice

  • Identity + Algorithms

    Identity + Algorithms

  • Improving Design for Mortality Information Systems

    Improving Design for Mortality Information Systems

  • Assessing Support for Mortality: An Environmental Scan of Online Platforms

    Assessing Support for Mortality: An Environmental Scan of Online Platforms

  • Positional Machine Learning

    Positional Machine Learning

  • Post-userism

    Post-userism

  • Queer HCI

    Queer HCI

  • Generative AI and Transness

    Generative AI and Transness

News / View more

July 29, 2026

AI ghosts were everywhere this summer

Our DIS 2026 study drew twenty-one stories across five weeks, from Science News and Smithsonian to Denver7 and the Daily Camera. Science News. Smithsonian. Daily Camera.

June 29, 2026

CU Boulder Today features our generative ghosts research

Our work studying how people interact with AI “ghosts” of the dead got an in-depth look — from the study room to the ethical questions these systems raise. Read the story.

June 17, 2026

Best Paper Honorable Mention at DIS 2026

Jack Manning presented “Designing Conversations with the Dead” in Singapore, where the paper earned a Best Paper Honorable Mention. Read the paper.