An intersectional approach to designing in the margins

Erete, Sheena; Israni, Aarti; Dillahunt, Tawanna R.

doi:10.1145/3194349

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“…We recognize that affects and effects of oppression(s) cannot be understood independently [35][89][119] [120], and that equity and inclusivity across intersections is critical to advance a practice that is responsible and equipped to make a valuable difference in people's lives. From designing for and with underserved communities [34] to 'lighter' issues such as "the recent wave of unnecessarily gendered products" [76], technologies are both positioned to empower and disempower in distinct ways. While gendered relations are certainly among the social relations that artefacts embody and convey, we are interested in exploring methods that are oriented towards making a difference while addressing specific problems, and the capacity that emerges from the use of that method to change the problem [63].…”

Section: Inclusivementioning

confidence: 99%

Woman-Centered Design through Humanity, Activism, and Inclusion

Almeida

Balaam

Comber

2020

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Women account for over half of the global population, however continue to be subject to systematic and systemic disadvantage, particularly in terms of access to health and education. At every intersection, where systemic inequality accounts for greater loss of life or limitations on full and healthy living, women are more greatly impacted by those inequalities. The design of technologies is no different, the very definition of technology is historically cast in terms of male activities, and advancements in the field are critical to improve women's quality of life. This paper views HCI, a relatively new field, as well positioned to act critically in the ways that technology serve, refigure and redefine women's bodies. Indeed, the female body remains a contested topic, a restriction to the development of women's health. Women's health-as a medicalized field exists, and people's experiences of it are problematic for many. This is visible today in e.g. socio-cultural practices in disparate geographies or medical devices within a clinic. Moreover, the biological body is part of a great unmentionable, i.e. the perils of essentialism. We contend that it is necessary, pragmatically and ethically, for HCI to turn its attention towards a woman-centered design approach. While previous research has argued for the dangers of gender-demarcated design work, we advance that designing for and with women should not be regarded as ghettoizing, but instead as critical to improving women's experiences in bodily transactions, choices, rights, and access to and in health and care. In this paper, we consider how and why designing with and for Woman matters, and use our design-led research as a way to speak to, and illustrate alternatives to this field. CCS CONCEPT insertion: The new template enables you to import required indexing concepts for your article from the ACM Computing Classification System (CCS) using an indexing support tool found in the ACM Digital Library (DL). The tool generates formatted text after you have selected your terms. To insert your CCS terms into your document, copy and paste the formatted text from the CCS tool using the "https://dl.acm.org/ccs/ccs.cfm" link into the "CCS CONCEPTS" section.

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Section: Inclusivementioning

confidence: 99%

Woman-Centered Design through Humanity, Activism, and Inclusion

Almeida

Balaam

Comber

2020

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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“…Finally, Feminist HCI researchers have valued lived experience by undertaking intentional and sensitive co-design with particular groups such as breastfeeding parents [91] and sex workers [85]. These relationships between researchers and vulnerable subjects, mediated by participatory design practices, are complex and involve differentials in social power, and have themselves been the focus of much research and reflection [36,40,45,52].…”

Section: Feminist Hci For Minoritized People Stigmatized Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

"The Personal is Political"

D’Ignazio

Michelson

Hope

et al. 2020

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Initially conceived as problem-focused programming events, hackathons have expanded to encompass a range of issue areas, stakeholders and activities. There have been important critiques of hackathons in relation to their format and structure, their epistemological assumptions, and their outputs and impacts. Scholars working in Feminist HCI have proposed design considerations for more inclusive hackathons that focus on social justice outcomes for marginalized groups. Evaluative work on hackathons has assessed entrepreneurial contributions, skill development, and affective impacts, but largely absent from the analysis is a view of longterm personal impacts on participants. What kinds of lasting impacts (if any) do issue-focused hackathons have on participants themselves? In this paper, we describe a post-hoc qualitative study with participants and organizers of a postpartum health hackathon in the U.S., one year after the event took place. Our goals were to understand people's motivations for participating, what impact (if any) their participation had on their lives, and how (if at all) their participation shaped how they now understand postpartum health. Our findings indicate that the hackathon functioned as a space of "feminist consciousness raising" in that it provided space for navigating and sharing personal experiences, contextualizing and connecting those experiences to structural oppression, and developing participants' self-and collective-efficacy to create design interventions and enact social change. Feminist consciousness raising is not just "awareness-raising", but rather a specific historic and contemporary practice which we describe and situate in relation to personal experiences of oppression around stigmatized topics. With these findings, we situate feminist consciousness raising in relation to the literature on hackathons and Feminist HCI, speculate which aspects of the design of the event led to it fostering feminist consciousness raising, and generate recommendations for how to intentionally bring feminist consciousness raising to the design of hackathons and innovation events. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Participatory design; • Social and professional topics → Race and ethnicity; Gender.

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“…Intersectionality suggests that people have unique experiences based on the combination of their identities, and that these can be oppressive multiple times (for example as a non-white, non-cis, disabled single mother) [43]. Further, that it is impossible to understand discrimination and oppression by considering one singular identity.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is argued that most of us are still on a journey -both in our personal and professional capacity [43]. As an international community, we are living or designing in quite different societal systems, with different cultures and politically correct stances, different regulations and legal mechanisms and different populations.…”

Section: Can the Different Approaches And Terms In Use Be Viewed As Part Of The Ud Movement?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Universal Design of ICT: A Historical Journey from Specialized Adaptations Towards Designing for Diversity

Begnum

2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Over the last decades, the field of computer science has moved from specialized adaptations and add-on assistive technologies, toward universal solutions catering to a diverse set of user needs. Two paradigm shifts have arguably occurred on this journey: 1) a shift in disability perspective (from a medical model to a psychosocial and situated model) and 2) a shift from reactive accessibility efforts to proactive inclusive design efforts. In addition, we have changed our perception of the end-user (from 'Mr. Average' to situated individuals), have expanded our disciplinary epistemologies (from positivist objective knowledge to critical and empathic qualitative insights), and changed the way we build digital solutions (from plan-based with little user contact to iterative with high user contact). This article tells the story of this journey, and how these shifts have all influenced the way we think today. We argue that different ways of thinking about and arguing for universal design today are not necessary confrontations -but can be seen as evolvements over time to complement the different societal systems in which we are designing.

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An intersectional approach to designing in the margins

Cited by 106 publications

References 7 publications

Woman-Centered Design through Humanity, Activism, and Inclusion

Woman-Centered Design through Humanity, Activism, and Inclusion

"The Personal is Political"

Universal Design of ICT: A Historical Journey from Specialized Adaptations Towards Designing for Diversity

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