Talks and presentations

Invited Talks

Waterloo Management Science and Engineering Department Seminar “The Future of Engineering Work: Analyzing Social Dynamics in Novel Workplace Configurations”, March, 2024

Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead) Community of Practice Conference on the Future of Work. “Engineering Communication in Hybrid Teams” presenter, 2022.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2.009 Product Design Processes: Slack Tutorial. “Using Slack in Design Teams: Evidence from Three Research Projects” presenter, September 2022.
University of Toronto Centre For Ethics: Ethics of AI Emerging Scholars Series: “Advancing a Model of Students’ Intentional Persistence in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence” presenter, March 2022. Watch here.

S. Ferguson, A. Olechowski “Enterprise Communication: A Naturalistic, Non-Intrusive Method for Studying Design Phenomena” ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), Lightning Talk, 2023.

J. Chen, S. Ferguson, A. Olechowski. Understanding Design Team Conflict on Virtual Communication Platforms. Canadian Design Workshop 2, 2022.
S. Ferguson, A. Olechowski. Measuring Gendered Patterns in a Capstone Design Course’s Online Communication. Canadian Design Workshop 2, 2022.
S. Ferguson, M. Flus, A. Olechowski. A Machine Learning Tool to Classify Design Phases. Canadian Design Workshop 2, 2022.
S. Ferguson, P. Aoyagui, A. Kuzminykh. A Thematic Comparison of Human and AI Explanations of Sexism Assessment. NeurIPS Workshop on Human Centered AI, 2022.

Ferguson, S., Olechowski, A. “”Why couldn’t we do this more often?”: exploring the feasibility of virtual and distributed work in product design engineering” ASME IDETC Conference, Lightning Talk, 2021.
Ferguson, S., Olechowski, A. “Exploring Short Text Topic Models in the Context of Product Design Enterprise Social Network Messaging” University of Toronto Engineering Research Conference, Oral Presentation, 2021. Awarded First Place in Data Analytics, AI, and Robotics section

Ferguson, S., Olechowski, A. “Towards the Future of Work from Home via Interviews with Engineering Designers” McMaster Engineering Technology Research and Innovation Conference, 2020.
Ferguson, S., Dusciuc, S., Vella, M., Sivaparamanantha, Y. Tsai, M-C., Chan, T. “Jump Detection and Metric Extraction using Machine Learning: A Case Study in Snowboarding” SPort INnovation (SPIN) Summit, 2020