Anti-Racist HCI: notes on an emerging critical technical practice

Abebe, Veronica; Amaryan, Gagik; Beshai, Marina; Ilene,; Gurgen, Ali Ekin; Ho, Wendy; Hylton, Naaji R.; Kim, Daniel; Lee, Christy; Lewandowski, Carina; Miller, Katherine T.; Moore, Lindsey A.; Sylwester, Rachel; Thai, Ethan H.; Tucker, Frelicia N.; Webb, Toussaint; Zhao, Dorothy Yanling; Zhao, Haicheng Charles; Vertesi, Janet

doi:10.1145/3491101.3516382

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“…as well as to 'generate alternative technology that brings previously-marginalized insights into the center', including the social aspects of explainability (Ehsan et al, 2021: 2, 24). Such efforts resonate with more recent engagements around CTP in HCI, including calls for an 'anti-racist HCI' (Abebe et al, 2022). Veronica Abebe et al (2022) argue for HCI research that 'centers anti-racism at its core' (2) by 'bring [ing] techniques from critical technical practice to bear on revealing and inverting assumptions in HCI' and 'attempting to produce alternative sociotechnical systems that aim not merely to reveal or correct but to destabilize or dismantle systems of oppression' (1).…”

Section: Ctps According To Indexed Researchmentioning

confidence: 83%

Pluralising critical technical practice

van Geenen,

van Es,

Gray

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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In this special issue, we turn to ideas of and approaches to critical technical practices (CTPs) as entry points to doing critique and doing things critically in digitally mediated cultures and societies. We explore the pluralisation of ‘critical technical practice’, starting from its early formulations in the context of AI research and development (Agre, 1997a, 1997b) to the many ways in which it has resonated and been taken up by different publications, projects, groups, and communities of practice, and what is has come to mean. Agre defined CTP as a situational, practical, and constructive way of working: ‘a technical practice for which critical reflection upon the practice is part of the practice itself’ (1997a: XII). Communities of practice in which the notion has been adopted, adapted, and put to use range from human–computer interaction (HCI) to media art and pedagogy, from science and technology studies (STS) and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) to digital humanities, media studies and data studies. This special issue affirms the pluralisation of CTP, and serves as an invitation to (re)consider what it means to use this notion drawing on a wider body of work, including beyond Agre. In this introduction, we review and discuss CTPs according to (1) Agre, (2) indexed research, and (3) contributors to this special issue. We conclude with some questions and considerations for those interested in working with this notion.

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Section: Ctps According To Indexed Researchmentioning

confidence: 83%

Pluralising critical technical practice

van Geenen,

van Es,

Gray

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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“…P9 wanted to share that they had ADHD and were interested in leaning into existing stereotypes to share common phrases that demonstrate their experience, like looking away from a person and saying "squirrel. " 1 Symbols were particularly helpful for people with invisible disabilities and symptoms. P15 wanted to be able to add a symbol or flag 2 as an annotation to the side of the avatar to represent his invisible disability, similar to queer pride symbols.…”

Section: Desired Use: Adding Symbols To Share Disabled Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Audre Lorde and Sins Invalid emphasize the importance of the fact that disabled people "do not live single issue lives, " but rather ones with complex intersecting facets of identity [27,37]. Building on research that discusses the importance of examining multiple identities [1,5] and dimensions of identity individually [41,55], we present the unique issues that arise for these people in avatar representation. Specifically, findings from our sample of almost exclusively multiply minoritized people emphasize the importance of understanding intersectional issues, especially in the space of identity representation.…”

Section: Representing Intersectional Fluctuating Identitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Inclusive Avatars: Disability Representation in Avatar Platforms

Mack,

Hsu,

Monroy-Hernández

et al. 2023

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Digital avatars are an important part of identity representation, but there is little work on understanding how to represent disability. We interviewed 18 people with disabilities and related identities about their experiences and preferences in representing their identities with avatars. Participants generally preferred to represent their disability identity if the context felt safe and platforms supported their expression, as it was important for feeling authentically represented. They also utilized avatars in strategic ways: as a means to signal and disclose current abilities, access needs, and to raise awareness. Some participants even found avatars to be a more accessible way to communicate than alternatives. We discuss how avatars can support disability identity representation because of their easily customizable format that is not strictly tied to reality. We conclude with design recommendations for creating platforms that better support people in representing their disability and other minoritized identities.

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“…For example, Baker and Verstockt [7] created a system that curates routes with geotagging for tourists, facilitating exploration, while Quercia et al [96] created a geolocalised recommender system based on knowledge graphs that makes use of perceptions of people that are already familiar with the city, to recommend paths aimed at a particular feeling. Following this focus on locative experiences, several works have begun to explore Augmented Reality inline with activist practices [114]: The Whole Story Project app [36] juxtaposes virtual statues of notable women juxtaposed to physical male statues; SweetgrassAR [80] overlays co-created digital stories on sculptures in a university campus, challenging colonial narratives with a reflection on Indigenous-settler relationships; and Campus AR [1] uses filters to rename campus infrastructures after prominent alumni of color.…”

Section: Heritage and Hcimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Notably, existing digital interventions do not address why intercultural dialogues are difficult to achieve and leave it to citizens to start and engage in exchanges. Furthermore, digital interventions in the public CH sites (like locative media technologies [1,7,36,80,96]) may not consider the barriers that stop intercultural dialogues.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Critical Heritage in the wild: Analysing Discomfort through Collaborative Autoethnography

Bala¹,

Sanches

Cesário³

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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As we engaged in designing digital interventions for intercultural dialogues around public cultural heritage sites, we saw an opportunity to surface multiple interpretations and points of view of history and shine a critical lens on current societal issues. To do so, we present the results of a collaborative auto-ethnography of alternative tours accompanied by intercultural guides, to explore sensory and embodied engagements with cultural heritage sites in a southern European capital. By focusing on the differences in how we experienced the heritage sites, we analyse the duality of discomfort, a common concept in HCI, in that it can both be deployed as a resource for designing systems that can transform people's understanding of history or it can be a hindrance for engagement, having an unequal effect on individuals. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Field studies; • Applied computing → Arts and humanities.

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Anti-Racist HCI: notes on an emerging critical technical practice

Cited by 15 publications

References 42 publications

Pluralising critical technical practice

Pluralising critical technical practice

Towards Inclusive Avatars: Disability Representation in Avatar Platforms

Towards Critical Heritage in the wild: Analysing Discomfort through Collaborative Autoethnography

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