Austin L. Toombs

Innovative Human-Technology Interaction Persona Design and Applications Design Education and Practice Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Technology Use by Older Adults

Publications

Citations

2,073

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Active years

Publishing since 2009

Research summary

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Austin L. Toombs works in human-computer interaction (HCI), studying how people and communities interact with technology in social settings. Recent work examines online and gaming communities, identity and queer experiences in digital spaces, care and data stewardship in marginalized contexts, and how people relate to AI systems, including how early adopters use multi-agent generative AI tools. The work also includes HCI teaching methods and reflections on how interpretive research should be conducted.

Human-computer interaction and online communitiesIdentity, queer, and non-Western perspectives in HCIHuman-AI collaboration and generative AICommunity-based and co-design researchHCI education and research methods

Publication activity peaked around 2018 and dipped in the early 2020s, then rose again in 2024-2026, averaging about 4.4 papers per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 4.4/year recently

Recent publications

Publishes in

interactions×3
Interacting with Computers×2
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction×2
Educational communications and technology: issues and innovations×2
Family Relations×2

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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