Queer in HCI: Strengthening the Community of LGBTQIA+ Researchers and Research

Cruising Queer HCI on the DL: A Literature Review of LGBTQ+ People in HCI

“…Often, these works engaged with gender and sexuality, whether as a focal point or as issues entangled within a larger area of interest. Most emblematic of queer-specific reflexivity are the reflections of the Queer SIGs [51,53], which we described earlier, negotiating what it means to do queer research and be a queer researcher. Beyond a collective reflection of Queer HCI, we see personal reflections specific to particular queer identities, such as non-binary experiences of "casual violence" in the field [198].…”

“…We found one paper centered on polyamorous queer people [128], one centered on bisexual people [213], and two centered on sexual minority women [45,46]. Clearly, there is "much ground to be covered" in research on queer populations [51,53], and specificity in Queer HCI research is a way we can be held accountable as a research community to cover this ground. Of course, this tension is not unique to the Queer HCI community.…”

“…In recent years, "Queer HCI" has emerged as a loose contingent of HCI researchers. Prior Special Interest Groups (SIGs) at the ACM CHI conference in 2019 [199], 2020 [53], and 2021 [51] have defined Queer HCI as roughly composed of three overlapping groups: (1) queer researchers regardless of what they research, (2) those researching queer people, and (3) those leveraging queer theory (e.g., playful or subversive interaction design [141]). This paper focuses on one aspect of Queer HCI: research about LGBTQ+ people.…”

“…This paper focuses on one aspect of Queer HCI: research about LGBTQ+ people. Prior Queer HCI SIGs noted that there is "much ground to be covered" in research on queer populations [51,53] and that "prior studies have largely focused on gay men ... while the queer community is, in fact, a highly diverse and heterogenous group" [199]. Despite these observations, there has been neither a review of research involving LGBTQ+ people nor an examination of how this work has evolved.…”

Sonic Technologies of a Queer Breakup

“…Building on feminist HCI scholarship and its attention to embodiment and pluriversal subjectivities [7], scholars study the erasure of queer bodies by airport scanners [21] and ML facial recognition systems [96]. Other work has explored the queering of HCI [30,105] through projects that center a diversity of queer experience, including coming out narratives [33], the safety of non-binary people of color [106] and the development of trans technology [37]. Across this scholarship, queerness works as an analytic thread for examining how and why technologies so often fail [48] but still contribute (albeit unevenly) to the conditions for queer fourishing [13].…”