Table of Contents
VOLUME XXVII.6 November - December 2020
- WELCOME
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What are you reading?
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What are you reading? Katta Spiel
Katta Spiel
To me, What are you reading? is an incredibly intimate question. There is vulnerability to sharing my bookshelf, to allowing others to trace my epistemological lineage so closely. I hear What are you reading? as What is shaping your thoughts? and that cuts a little close. What are you…
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Blog@IX
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Auto-UI: Global perspectives
Christian Janssen, Ronald Schroeter, Nicola Bidwell, Yong Ji, Ignacio Alvarez, Shan Bao, Myounghoon Jeon, Linda Boyle, Stella Donker, Lewis Chuang, Wendy Ju, Andrew Kun
ACM SIGCHI Auto-UI (https://www.auto-ui.org/) is a growing community, but one in which some continents were less involved than expected and hoped for. For the 2019 conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands, we made various targeted attempts to grow and diversify our international community, with support from the ACM SIGCHI Development…
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Exhibit X
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Dots
Valentin Gong, Xiaohui Wang, Lan Xiao
Access to digital information is an important right in our society, as it defines whether one can integrate into society and avoid digital exclusion. However, the future form of digital interaction is getting increasingly exclusive. With the development of mixed reality (MR) and the Internet of Things (IoT), people…
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Columns
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Designing equality
Jonathan Bean
Architecture, the academic subject where I spend most of my time teaching, has a longstanding diversity problem. Pretty much every way you measure it, the numbers indicate that anyone other than heterosexual white men are at a significant disadvantage. In 2018, the architecture and design writer Alison Arief wrote…
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‘The co-’: feminisms, power, and research cultures—A dialogue
Jaz Choi, Ann Light
This article is polyvocal and tentative. We, Jaz and Ann, are exploring the beliefs that motivate our work, in this first of Jaz's columns. For both of us, collaborative working is a method but also an end point—a goal that recognizes the interdependent nature of all life and looks…
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Making/breaking
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Intimate touch
Madeline Balaam, Nadia Woytuk, Marianela Felice, Ozgun Afsar, Anna Ståhl, Marie Søndergaard
Intimate touch is a provocative concept within which we ground our feminist critical health design work. Intimate touch follows a feminist epistemological underpinning that emphasizes intra-actions between materials as a source of knowing and acting [1]. We are making new apparatuses and discursive practices for intimate touch that through…
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Forums
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Beyond the portal: Reimagining the post-pandemic future of work
Divy Thakkar, Neha Kumar, Nithya Sambasivan
As the epic Covid pandemic unfolds before us, it is the proletariat of the world who have been among the most affected. From waste pickers in Brazil to tourist guides in Vietnam to retail workers in the U.S., single-wage earners have experienced record-high job losses, thrusting entire households into…
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Designing AI systems that make organizational knowledge actionable
Denise Wilkins, Siân Lindley, Max Meijer, Richard Banks, Britta Burlin
Knowledge management describes processes involved in creating, sharing, using, and maintaining an organization's knowledge. In computer science, knowledge management is traditionally associated with artificial intelligence (AI), as researchers developed algorithms to manage large datasets [1]. Although not a new AI technique, machine learning (ML) offers interesting opportunities for designing…
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Aadhaar and the creation of barriers to welfare
Sareeta Amrute, Reetika Khera, Adam Willems
Sound, movement, temperature, affect: What machines sense for the sake of monitoring populations and their characteristics transcends traditional realms of surveillance. The term surveillance, combining the idea of being above with the notion of watching, suggests an all-seeing center that is at far remove from the object of its…
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Closing note for the HCI education forum
Sukeshini Grandhi
Dear ACM Interactions readers, After five years we are phasing out the print version of the HCI Education forum in Interactions magazine. In 2015, I took on the role of editor for the newly launched HCI Education forum. I (nervously) wrote an article kicking off the forum communicating my…
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Community square
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Upcoming SIGCHI elections: Some information and actions to be taken
Loren Terveen
Elections for the SIGCHI Executive Committee will take place during Spring 2021. Read on to learn more about why elections are important and how you can participate. SIGCHI is the premier international society for professionals, academics, and students who are interested in human-technology and human-computer interaction (HCI). We provide…
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Space
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Depatriarchise design *!Labs!*: Transforming design education
Anja Neidhardt, Maya Ober
Depatriarchise design describes the process of dismantling oppressive structures with which the design discipline is interwoven. It is also the name of our nonprofit research platform, depatriarchise design. Instead of inhabiting one physical space, we inhabit different spaces—both physical and virtual. We like to think about the Internet in…
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Features
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Feminisms through design: A practical guide to implement and extend feminism
Sai Shruthi Chivukula
Position This article represents my reflection on feminism and design. Its goal is to provoke your own feminist position on design and help you to navigate this space through understanding the feminist values embedded in design. Does writing this article mean that I am a feminist scholar? Could I…
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Feminisms through design: A response
Shaowen Bardzell
Response I am delighted to offer a reaction to Sai Shruthi Chivukula's piece, "Feminisms Through Design: A Practical Guide to Implement and Extend Feminism." Chivukula begins her article as a response to my 2010 paper "Feminist HCI: Taking Stock and Outlining and Agenda for Design," including its citation history…
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Feminism as a design methodology
Alex Ahmed, Lilly Irani
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality. And it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve a consciousness of capitalism (I mean, the feminism that I relate to. And there are multiple feminisms, right?). It has to involve a consciousness of capitalism, and racism, and colonialism,…
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Encountering feminisms across borders
Neha Kumar
According to South Asian feminist activist Kamla Bhasin, our feminisms are unique, like water—fluid, clear, essential—taking the shape, form, color of the "container into which they are poured" [1]. And as waters mix and become impossible to separate, so too is the case with feminisms. Encounters are seldom forgotten,…
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Negotiating borders through feminisms
Maryam Mustafa
Feminist HCI and feminist approaches to design have been celebrated and widely adopted for their potential to have lasting impact on issues of agency, fulfillment, identity, equity, empowerment, and social justice [1]. And in recent years, researchers and practitioners have sought ways to incorporate the feminist design qualities of…
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How mobile media impacts urban life—Blending social cohesion and social distancing
Petter Bae Brandtzaeg
When I began this essay, the coronavirus crisis had not yet reached Europe and the U.S. However, the topic—the ways in which mobile media is changing people's lives and the social cohesion of urban life—has become increasingly relevant in the time of Covid-19 and social distancing. Even before the…
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Technologies that disempower
Aaditeshwar Seth
Paper-based bureaucratic procedures to access government services such as welfare measures can be user unfriendly and riddled with red tape [1]. In India, despite extensive work over the past decade in the digitization of such processes, government welfare services remain hard to access by low-income populations, causing significant distress…
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A year of HCI webinars in Latin America
Toni Granollers, Jaime Muñoz-Arteaga, César Collazos, Huizilopoztli Luna-García
In 2005, the Asociación Interacción Persona-Ordenador (AIPO, the Spanish Human-Computer Interaction Association; http://www.aipo.es) promoted its first workshop on teaching HCI for the Spanish-speaking context: Jornadas de Trabajo sobre Enseñanza of CHI (CHIJOTE) [1]. At that time, HCI (Interacción Persona-Ordenador, IPO) had very little impact on academic curricula. The European…
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User-centered design and Covid-19
Ilona Posner
I was invited to teach at the Translational Research Program (TRP) at University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine in the Fall of 2019. This is a master's degree program for individuals interested in designing innovative solutions in the healthcare space. The cohort in the class of 33 consisted of…
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Dialogues: Feminisms in design
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Feminist design and the relational infrastructures of protest
Anita Chan, Mayar Bakry
Anita Say Chan: Thank you, Mayar, for joining me in this conversation. It's a real pleasure to have our sites connected—you in Zurich, as a Swiss-Egyptian feminist designer and researcher with rich ties to the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region, and myself in Champaign, Illinois, in the…
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Feminisms through design: A practical guide to implement and extend feminism
Sai Shruthi Chivukula
Position This article represents my reflection on feminism and design. Its goal is to provoke your own feminist position on design and help you to navigate this space through understanding the feminist values embedded in design. Does writing this article mean that I am a feminist scholar? Could I…
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Feminisms through design: A response
Shaowen Bardzell
Response I am delighted to offer a reaction to Sai Shruthi Chivukula's piece, "Feminisms Through Design: A Practical Guide to Implement and Extend Feminism." Chivukula begins her article as a response to my 2010 paper "Feminist HCI: Taking Stock and Outlining and Agenda for Design," including its citation history…
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Feminism as a design methodology
Alex Ahmed, Lilly Irani
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality. And it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve a consciousness of capitalism (I mean, the feminism that I relate to. And there are multiple feminisms, right?). It has to involve a consciousness of capitalism, and racism, and colonialism,…
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Encountering feminisms across borders
Neha Kumar
According to South Asian feminist activist Kamla Bhasin, our feminisms are unique, like water—fluid, clear, essential—taking the shape, form, color of the "container into which they are poured" [1]. And as waters mix and become impossible to separate, so too is the case with feminisms. Encounters are seldom forgotten,…
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Negotiating borders through feminisms
Maryam Mustafa
Feminist HCI and feminist approaches to design have been celebrated and widely adopted for their potential to have lasting impact on issues of agency, fulfillment, identity, equity, empowerment, and social justice [1]. And in recent years, researchers and practitioners have sought ways to incorporate the feminist design qualities of…
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Exit
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Zip your mouth
Helen Remick
Contributor: Helen Remick, [email protected] As an at-risk person, I dream of going out again when we reach Covid Phase 4. What masks will I need for special occasions? A plastic inset in a mask allows my husband to read my lips. A thin coating of dish soap doesn't taste…
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