Dear Air-L community, We are seeking participants for our upcoming May 9 CHI '21 workshop, “This Seems to Work”: Designing Technological Systems with The Algorithmic Imaginations of Those Who Labor. *Note that CHI is taking place virtually and no travel is required*. This workshop invites conversation around any professionals who interact with opaque technological systems, and we welcome papers which elevate how the CHI community talks about low-power workers managed by or engaging with algorithmic/digital platforms, with the goal of centering workers and their agency. We invite position papers, from a range of disciplines, which discuss: - Imaginations of what technology design would look like if it leveraged workers understandings of algorithmic underpinnings; - New ways of framing interactions between on-the-ground algorithmically mediated workers and technological systems; - Innovative methodological breakthroughs which can provide insight into the ‘people’s research’ workers undertake, i.e. cognitive labor, sensemaking, or algorithmic imaginaries, and/or their influence on platform functions. ORGANIZERS LINDSEY CAMERON Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania ANGÈLE CHRISTIN Department of Communication, Stanford University MICHAEL ANN DEVITO School of Communication, Northwestern University TAWANNA DILLAHUNT School of Information, University of Michigan MADELEINE C. ELISH Google Research MARY L. GRAY Microsoft Research RIDA QADRI Urban Information Systems, MIT NOOPUR RAVAL AI Now Institute, New York University MELISSA VALENTINE Center for Work, Technology, and Organization, Stanford University ELIZABETH ANNE WATKINS Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University TO PARTICIPATE Send a 300 word abstract with a short bio thosewholabor@gmail.com no later than February 19, 2021 AOE. More info about submission and the workshop at: https://sites.google.com/view/this-seems-to-work-chi-2021/