COLUMN: INIT
Shifting Power Through Resistance: Social Justice in Practice
By Cella M. Sum, Alicia DeVrio, June 2024
Articles Tagged: User characteristics
Articles & Features
SECTION: Features
Up Against the Firewall
In a revolt against techno-optimism and the real-world violence it upholds, members of radical research collective Lucy Parsons Labs (LPL) call for an empiricism rooted in technopolitical critique. Drawing from their own years of labor in the struggles against racial and surveillance capitalism, current work in HCI, and radical theorists like Alfredo M. Bonanano and Modibo Kadalie, LPL invites us to incorporate an ethics of rebellion and progress our tech practices into principled, anti-authoritarian praxis.
By Alejandro Ruizesparza, Freddy Martinez, June 2024
SECTION: Features
Why you being WEIRD to me?
HCI researchers and practitioners of all backgrounds need to consider the role WEIRD-ness plays in HCI methods, research, and communities and the impact that has on marginalized communities.
By Leslie Coney, July 2022
DEPARTMENT: Pointers
Diversity, equity, and inclusion in computer science
By Tejas Morkar, July 2022
SECTION: Features
How data can support equity in computing education
Data has historically been a tool of oppression. But if we consider how its interpretations and uses affect minoritized groups, data-driven tools could support diversity, equity, and inclusion in computing education and beyond.
By Benjamin Xie, December 2020
Body-positive computing as a means to counteract normative biases in fitness trackers
Fitness trackers are rigidly defining what it means to be healthy and who "counts" as healthy. Body-positive computing can provide an alternative that allows people to engage with technologies more on their terms.
By Katta Spiel, July 2019
SECTION: Features
Computer scientists in action: Christina Harrington, inclusive technology design
By Christina Harrington, October 2018
DEPARTMENT: Labz
Meeting point: the computer lab
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
By Johanna Schacht, June 2016