Feminist HCI

Shaowen Bardzell
2010 Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '10  
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
more » ... e examples of feminist interaction design already in the field. Finally, I propose a set of feminist interaction design qualities intended to support design and evaluation processes directly as they unfold.
doi:10.1145/1753326.1753521 dblp:conf/chi/Bardzell10 fatcat:enaoh66ejraz7jgzzqtlex6eoy