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- Almeida, Teresa, et al.
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Woman-Centered Design through Humanity, Activism, and Inclusion
- 2020
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Ingår i: ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. - New York : ACM Digital Library. - 1073-0516 .- 1557-7325. ; 27:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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 article 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. On one hand, the field of women's health has attended to the medicalization of the body and therefore is to be understood through medical language and knowledge. On the other hand, the framing of issues associated with women's health and people's experiences of and within such system(s) remain problematic for many. This is visible today in, e.g., socio-cultural practices in disparate geographies or medical devices within a clinic or the home. 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 toward 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 article, we consider how and why designing with and for woman matters. We use our design-led research as a way to speak to and illustrate alternatives to designing for and with women within HCI.
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- Dow, Andy, et al.
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What Happens to Digital Feedback? : Studying the Use of a Feedback Capture Platform by Care Organisations
- 2017
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Ingår i: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 ACM SIGCHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS (CHI'17). - New York, NY, USA : ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. ; , s. 5813-5825
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we report on a four-month long field trial of ThoughtCloud, a feedback collection platform that allows people to leave ratings and audio or video responses to simple prompts. ThoughtCloud was trialled with four organisations providing care services for people with disabilities. We conducted interviews with staff and volunteers that used ThoughtCloud before, during and after its deployment, and workshops with service users and staff. While the collection of feedback was high, only one organisation regularly reviewed and responded to collected opinions. Furthermore, tensions arose around data access and sharing, and the mismatch of values between 'giving voice' and the capacity for staff to engage in feedback practices. We contribute insights into the challenges faced in using novel technologies in resource constrained organisations, and discuss opportunities for designs that give greater agency to service users to engage those that care for them in reflecting and responding to their opinions.
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- Pargman, Daniel, et al.
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The future of computing and wisdom : Insights from Human-Computer Interaction
- 2019
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Ingår i: Futures. - : ELSEVIER SCI LTD. - 0016-3287 .- 1873-6378. ; 113
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we present a structured report on a dialogue on the Future of Computing and Wisdom. The dialogue consists of a recorded and transcribed discussion between researchers and practitioners in the field of Human-Computer Interaction that was held at workshop in conjunction with the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in September 2018. However, the dialogue also encompasses workshop participants' preparatory work with writing "fictional abstracts" - abstracts of yet-to-be-written research papers that will be published in 2068. The polyvocal dialogue that is reported upon thus includes not just the voices of researchers and practitioners who attended the workshop, but also includes the voices of the future researchers of 2068 who wrote the abstracts in question as well as the voices of the organisms, individuals, intelligent agents and communities who are the subjects, victims, beneficiaries and bystanders of wise (or unwise) future computing systems.
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- Rossitto, Chiara, et al.
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Data-Enabled Sustainability : The Collective Work of Turning Data into Actions for Environmental Care
- 2023
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Ingår i: CSCW '23 Companion. - : Association for Computing Machinery. - 9798400701290 ; , s. 506-511
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This one-day workshop invites discussions on the role of data and data-enabled practices in addressing challenges of environmental sustainability. Fostering acts of care for the environment is a complex endeavor entailing multi-lifespan relations to people and institutions, to the environment and other non-human actors, and to existing infrastructures and processes. The workshop addresses such challenges by exploring the role of data, and the work of making them actionable for the many actors involved in protecting the environment. It will bring together interdisciplinary scholars, representatives of public institutions, activists, environmental collectives, and IT practitioners interested in the design of more sustainable futures. The workshop will discuss analytical and design issues of data-enabled sustainability, along with the practical opportunities of using data to infrastructure acts of care for the environment. The workshop will accommodate up to twenty participants and will be mainly run on-site.
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- Stojanov, Martin, et al.
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How do we arrive at constraints? : Articulating limits for computing
- 2023
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Ingår i: Computing within Limits. - : PubPub.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Computing within Limits invites considerations of limits andconstraints in design practice. We compare two projects whichintegrate constraints, the reduction of academic air travel and asolar powered internet, to show a distinction between twoapproaches to arriving at constraints. In the case of reducingacademic air travel, the problem which greenhouse gas emissionspose for business-as-usual academic travel is addressed byproposing constraints on future flying. Constraints in the Flightproject can be understood as a process of commensuration, ofcomparing that which is to be constrained according to a commonmetric. This gives rise to a future of academic travel understood inrelation to CO2 emissions and reduction targets. In the secondcase, we have explored the solar internet as a specific way tointroduce constraints in the context of the rising electricity useassociated with internet infrastructure. In the Solar Internetproject, constraints have been approached relationally anditeratively, in reconfigurations of internet use practices and designpractices, including the solar internet imaginary and the scale ofbattery and power supply.We compare these two approaches, drawing on vocabulary fromSociology of Quantification and Science and Technology Studies,to help articulate their respective implications, while alsoacknowledging what they have in common, e.g. the ability toexpand the frame of what is made relevant for design practice.The case of the Flight project suggests that constraints as aprocess of commensuration can be fruitful when pursuing aunified future, intervening over time with a trajectory towards aquantifiable target. On the other hand, when trying to account forindirect effects and the future as multiple, the introduction ofconstraints can better be understood as con-figurations, with afuture negotiated iteratively in design practice. Rather thanthinking about constraints as essentially requiring one or the otherapproach, we suggest that problems and the introduction ofconstraints may be more or less amenable to either approach at aspecific time.
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- Ståhl, Anna, et al.
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Making New Worlds - Transformative Becomings with Soma Design
- 2022
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Ingår i: CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. - New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ; , s. 1-17
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Soma design is intended to increase our ability to appreciate through all our senses and lead to more meaningful interactions with the world. We contribute a longer-term study of soma design that shows evidence of this promise. Using storytelling approaches we draw on qualitative data from a three-month study of the soma mat and breathing light in four households. We tell stories of people's becomings in the world as they learn of new possibilities for their somas; and as their somas transform. We show how people drew on their somaesthetic experiences with the prototypes to find their way through troubled times; and how through continued engagement some felt compelled to make transformations in how they live their lives. We discuss the implications for the overarching soma design program, focusing on what is required to design for ways of leading a better life.
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- Almeida, Teresa, et al.
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HCI and Intimate Care as an Agenda for Change in Women's Health
- 2016
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Ingår i: 34TH ANNUAL CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS, CHI 2016. - New York, NY, USA : ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. ; , s. 2599-2611
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Designing for women's healthcare remains an underexplored area of HCI, particularly outside informational systems for maternal health. Drawing on a case study of a body disruption - urinary incontinence in women - we illustrate the experience of women's health both from the perspective of the patient and the therapist. We show how knowledge, esteem and agency play crucial roles in remedial women's care practices, as well as preventative. In describing these challenges we deliberate on possible futures of women's health that take advantage of the many advances in design and technology from across the spectrum of HCI research. We show how with some care and courage HCI has the potential to transform women's experience within this setting.
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- Almqvist, Andreas, et al.
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Different Together : Design for Radical Placemaking
- 2023
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. - : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ; , s. 1-16
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This work responds to isolating urban places, and contributes new ways for thinking about placemaking. Progressing through autoethnography and prototyping, we critique design proposals with Lefebvre’s theory of utopia. There inhabitants can enjoy and shape their place together without risking depletion of their abilities and motivations to do so. The critique produces political sensibilities that help us make sense of common tensions among inhabitants, landowners, and visitors, and generate possible responses. The critique process itself illustrates how designing through critique with theory can help us think in new ways. This paper contributes a display of how design with critical theory can happen, ultimately to support our abilities and motivations to envision and make places of social flourishing that can respond to our socio-environmental crises.
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- Ásgeirsdóttir, Thórhildur, et al.
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Making Energy Matter : Soma Design for Ethical Relations in Energy Systems
- 2023
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. - : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ; , s. 1-14
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is a need to reframe our relationship to energy, particularly in Western energy contexts, where we have plentiful access and no meaningful barriers to use. This paper outlines a first-person engagement with energy systems and shows how somaesthetic design is one possible means to cultivate and design for new ways of ethical being with energy systems. Early autobiographical design work focused on designing for 'sustainability' revealed a trajectory of fatalism and restriction. A turn towards enacting material relations, co-performed with others, opened into a more holistic relationship with energy. Reflecting on how this process unfolded, we argue that sustainability is not, in itself, a somaesthetic sensibility, and remains constrained within rational framings. We develop this argument to contribute to a new understanding of how we somatically relate to energy and how relational ethics in interaction design research and practice can encourage a felt sense for the materiality of energy.
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