Human-Computer Insurrection

Keyes, Os; Hoy, Josephine; Drouhard, Margaret

doi:10.1145/3290605.3300569

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“…Computer scientists have increasingly acknowledged that values, politics and ethics are essential in computer science education and research [106]. Human-computer interaction and social computing scholars have either focused on feminism, post-colonialism and other critical approaches to examine how politics is embedded with technologies [51] or engaged to examine how technology could help civic society to more deeply participate in political debate and action [for review, see 76]. However, previous work has used institutionalized party politics only as a control variable in the research design, checking if intervention results uphold across different political leanings.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Party Politics, Values and the Design of Social Media Services

Grön

Nelimarkka

2020

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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There have been several attempts to support political engagement through novel social media services. While the political nature of any technologies is widely acknowledged in human-computer interaction, such considerations have been less studied when designing for political engagement in social media services. We used speculative design probes to gauge how political elites perceive alternative social media interfaces designed to increase media diversity and decrease political polarisation. We show how elites? reactions to design probes could be rooted into party ideologies. Based on these, we discuss directions how social media services could be designed. Our underlying contribution is wider. We show how studying elites can provide insights about politics embedded into proposed novel social media services for political engagement. Second, we demonstrate what elites? perspective provide fruitful way to expand and rethink concepts that have been used to study ordinary people before. Finally, we discuss potential challenges of replacing economic interests with political interest in social media service design and provide a richer account on the discussion about social media regulation. Therefore, we pave the way to more research to critically study elites within social computing scholarship and highlight the importance of understanding political motivations which can guide the development of social media.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Party Politics, Values and the Design of Social Media Services

Grön

Nelimarkka

2020

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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“…This interest stems both from a lineage of reflective and radical practices in design, as well as more recent manifestations, variations and progressions such as critical design [29], speculative design [30], adversarial design [27], discursive design [95], design fiction [12] and others. Within HCI, these research programs have flourished amid a broader interest in using design methods to explore critical alternatives to dominant frameworks of meaning, particularly under growing concerns about environmental, social, and economic costs of technology in global capitalism [35,49,56].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Design research has explored and critiqued alternative futures through various practices, such as speculative design, design fiction, material speculations and others. These approaches remain varied and emergent, though they have gained prominence as third-wave HCI research takes on broader societal considerations [35,49,56]. In addition to dedicated tracks on Future Scenarios at NordiCHI and Design Fictions at GROUP, more design futuring papers are contributed to CHI every year.…”

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confidence: 99%

Expanding Modes of Reflection in Design Futuring

Kozubæv¹,

Elsden

Howell

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Design futuring approaches, such as speculative design, design fiction and others, seek to (re)envision futures and explore alternatives. As design futuring becomes established in HCI design research, there is an opportunity to expand and develop these approaches. To that end, by reflecting on our own research and examining related work, we contribute five modes of reflection. These modes concern formgiving, temporality, researcher positionality, real-world engagement, and knowledge production. We illustrate the value of each mode through careful analysis of selected design exemplars and provide questions to interrogate the practice of design futuring. Each reflective mode offers productive resources for design practitioners and researchers to articulate their work, generate new directions for their work, and analyze their own and others' work.

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“…Harrington argues for a "reconstruction" in which HCI researchers address the "methodological challenges" to traditional PD arising from structural injustices [194]. Similarly, Keyes et al urges a "reorientation" of HCI towards creating "systems and spaces that exemplify the world we wish to see" [200]. The Feminist Data Manifest-No refuses complicity and commits to a radically transformed future.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The "blue-sky" ideation exercises -arguing that they reinforce differentials in power between researchers and participants [193][194][195][196]. Despite the ostensible benefits of opening design processes up to individual and community engagement, such attempts are fraught by histories of institutional racism [194], colonialist narratives of "development" [197], and the outsized influence of corporate power under capitalism, from which academia is not exempt [198][199][200]. These histories of oppression have marred attempts to design collaboratively, especially with marginalized people.…”

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confidence: 99%

Community-based design of open source software for transgender voice training

Ahmed¹

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Voice training consists of personalized sessions that support transgender individuals in changing their voices (such as modifying pitch or resonance for greater alignment with gender identity). However, transgender people face widespread oppression and health disparities, which limit their ability to access quality, gender-affirming health care, including voice training. The goal of this dissertation is to create a freely available voice training application for transgender people using a participatory research methodology. I describe the formation of an online organization called Project Spectra, which designed a novel voice training application. I also present a preliminary evaluation of the app focusing on the experiences of two transgender women who used the app for about five weeks. Using quantitative and qualitative outcome measures, the study aimed to elucidate whether and how the app furthered participants' voice goals, as well as how it fit into the context of their lives. We found that participants were able to use the app in ways that were suited to their specific needs. They also shared numerous ways the app could be improved both functionally and aesthetically. This dissertation intervenes in current lines of thinking in personal health informatics (PHI). In showing how a personal health technology can be built collaboratively online through sustained, long-term engagement with a vulnerable community, I make the case for an ideological shift in the field towards social change, beyond individual change. I explore data visualizations that support user agency and self-determination. I also join ongoing conversations in human-computer interaction (HCI) critiquing the established methods of participatory design. Online collaborative making, inspired by the open source movement, could be a promising avenue for future research in the field; however, I argue that methodological shifts must be accompanied by ideological shifts (in intentions and values) and material shifts (in power and access to resources). This project would not have been possible without the collective effort and support of the Project Spectra team: transfusion, Lsomethingsomething, Coranna, Klew, Clo, Darekun, Factoid, Iris, phasedchirp, Celestmia, Luke... thank you all so much. Thanks are also due to Project Spectra's informants and collaborators: Kristine Guan, Zheanna Erose, Lillith Whitmann, and Tori Flormann. Thanks especially to all of the participants who contributed their thoughts and experiences to the research presented here.

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Human-Computer Insurrection

Cited by 70 publications

References 105 publications

Party Politics, Values and the Design of Social Media Services

Party Politics, Values and the Design of Social Media Services

Expanding Modes of Reflection in Design Futuring

Community-based design of open source software for transgender voice training

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