Designing for Intersections

Wong-Villacrés, Marisol; Kumar, Arkadeep; Vishwanath, Aditya; Karusala, Naveena; DiSalvo, Betsy; Kumar, Neha

doi:10.1145/3196709.3196794

Cited by 75 publications

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“…(Fordham and Ogbu, 1986)). Past work on agent representation also lacks alignment with modern understanding of identity, relying on binary definitions of gender (West and Zimmerman, 1987;Keyes, 2018) and failing to account for identities at the intersection of multiple marginalized groups (Crenshaw, 1990), especially in less developed countries (Wong-Villacres et al, 2018).…”

Section: Case Study: Agent-based Intelligentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Equity Beyond Bias in Language Technologies for Education

Mayfield¹,

Madaio²,

Prabhumoye³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

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There is a long record of research on equity in schools. As machine learning researchers begin to study fairness and bias in earnest, language technologies in education have an unusually strong theoretical and applied foundation to build on. Here, we introduce concepts from culturally relevant pedagogy and other frameworks for teaching and learning, and identify future work on equity in NLP. We present case studies in a range of topics like intelligent tutoring systems, computer-assisted language learning, automated essay scoring, and sentiment analysis in classrooms, and provide an actionable agenda for research.

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Section: Case Study: Agent-based Intelligentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Equity Beyond Bias in Language Technologies for Education

Mayfield¹,

Madaio²,

Prabhumoye³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

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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.…”

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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“…Feminist HCI has had a wide impact in studies related to women's health [6,14], emancipatory design [19] and our understanding of gender and design [27,83]. It has also been extended to include intersectional concerns developed by Black feminist theorists-that is to say, design approaches that consider how experiences of oppression exist at the intersection of multiple, interlocking forces of oppression such as racism and sexism [42,73,76,81,92,93]-as well as design technologies for trans* and non-binary users [2,58].…”

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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Designing for Intersections

Cited by 75 publications

References 59 publications

Equity Beyond Bias in Language Technologies for Education

Equity Beyond Bias in Language Technologies for Education

Woman-Centered Design through Humanity, Activism, and Inclusion

"The Personal is Political"

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