Deepfake technology is often used to create non-consensual synthetic intimate imagery (NSII), mainly of celebrity women. Through Critical Discursive Psychological analysis, we ask; i) how celebrities construct being targeted by deepfakes and ii) how they navigate infrastructural and social obstacles when seeking recourse. In this paper, we adopt Baumer’s concept of “Usees” (stakeholders who are non-consenting, unaware and directly targeted by technology), to understand public statements made by eight celebrity women and one non-binary individual targeted with NSII. Celebrities describe harms of being non-consensually targeted by deepfakes and they describe various infrastructural/social factors) which hinder activism and recourse. This work has implications in recognizing the roles of infrastructures underlying deepfake abuse and the potential of human-computer interaction to improve existing recourses for NSII. We also contribute to understanding false victim-blaming rhetoric about deepfake abuse. Future work should involve interventions which challenge values and false beliefs which motivate NSII creation/dissemination.

While major strides have been made towards gender equality in public life, serious inequality remains in the domestic sphere, especially around parenting. The present study analyses discussions about parenting on Reddit (i.e., a content aggregation website) to explore audience effects and gender stereotypes. It suggests a novel method to study topical variation in individuals’ language when interacting with different audiences. Comments posted in 2020 were collected from three parenting subreddits (i.e., topical communities), described as being for fathers (r/Daddit), mothers (r/Mommit), and all parents (r/Parenting). Users posting on r/Parenting and r/Daddit or on r/Parenting and r/Mommit were assumed to identify as fathers or mothers, respectively, allowing gender comparison. Users’ comments on r/Parenting (to a mixed-gender audience) were compared with their comments to single-gender audiences on r/Daddit or r/Mommit using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modelling.

This paper explores computer failure as a social event by examining recorded interactions between computer users and help-desk consultants (technicians). It was found, first, that the nature of a failure was negotiated between participants rather than being simply technically evident. Failure was defined from users' perspectives, in relation to what they were trying to achieve, rather than according to technical parameters. Secondly, negotiations of failure had social consequences for both users and help-desk consultants. Both avoided being seen as incompetent and actively defended their social standing. Thirdly, such social issues sometimes took precedence over technical and practical ones. The implications for HCI theorists and practitioners are twofold: firstly, failure should be accepted as a regular part of computer use in which human–computer interaction continues even though the interface may be non-functional. Secondly, the management of failure could be better addressed if technicians were trained in social as well as technical intervention skills.

This paper presents a new method used in our RTL-synthesis tool to perform technology mapping with Sequential Functional Modules (SFMs) such as counters, accumulators, shift-registers, or rotators from any target or macro library. If the library contains SFMs, the method automatically recognizes them. If an RTL design contains patterns that can be implemented on SFMs, the method maps them to the SFMs found in the target library. This mapping reduces the design time by leveraging the library developer's effort, leads to more regular and often smaller and faster designs, and helps to reduce timing and routing problems at later stages of the design process.

As design complexity increases, designers have tried many techniques in order to increase the productivity of their synthesis methodology. Recently, there has been a trend towards describing designs and target technology libraries at a higher level of abstraction. The hope is that by recognizing complex design expressions and by mapping to complex library cells, a synthesis tool will generate more efficient data paths. Also, since complex design expressions are usually very expensive to implement in hardware, intelligent resource allocation and sharing procedures are required.>

A data structure derived from corner stitching which allows efficient representation of VLSI layouts is presented. While each entry in the expanded rectangle database is larger than the corresponding corner-stitched entry, generally fewer entries are required to represent the same VLSI layout. The data structure has two important features: first, the VLSI design is represented as a slicing structure in which each slice contains a portion of the solid material; and second, corner stitches are used to provide two-dimensional nearness information. Initial measurements indicate that expanded rectangles is a viable data structure for use in a complete VLSI layout system.>