Feminist HCI: taking stock and outlining an agenda for design

S Bardzell - Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems, 2010dl.acm.org
Feminism is a natural ally to interaction design, due to its central commitments to issues
such as agency, fulfillment, identity, equity, empowerment, and social justice. In this paper, I
summarize the state of the art of feminism in HCI and propose ways to build on existing
successes to more robustly integrate feminism into interaction design research and practice.
I explore the productive role of feminism in analogous fields, such as industrial design,
architecture, and game design. I introduce examples of feminist interaction design already in …
Feminism is a natural ally to interaction design, due to its central commitments to issues such as agency, fulfillment, identity, equity, empowerment, and social justice. In this paper, I summarize the state of the art of feminism in HCI and propose ways to build on existing successes to more robustly integrate feminism into interaction design research and practice. I explore the productive role of feminism in analogous fields, such as industrial design, architecture, and game design. I introduce examples of feminist interaction design already in the field. Finally, I propose a set of femi-nist interaction design qualities intended to support design and evaluation processes directly as they unfold.
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