Living Disability Theory: Reflections on Access, Research, and Design

Hofmann, Megan; Kasnitz, Devva; Mankoff, Jennifer; Bennett, Cynthia L.

doi:10.1145/3373625.3416996

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“…Duoethnography (also known as co-autoethnography) was first popularized in education research (e.g. [59,75,81]), gender studies, and critical ethnic studies [33]; and has since grown in use in HCI research (for a review see [33]), allowing for generative views of sociotechnical systems and exposition of "the ways that contexts connect and even conflict" [41]. For examples, see [22,23,41,88].…”

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Materiality Matters in Computing Education: A Duoethnography of Two Digital Logic Educators

Mayhew

Patitsas

2021

LIMITS Workshop on Computing Within Limits

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Computer science needs to be sustainable, and CS educators have an important role to play in changing the discipline. Recent efforts have emerged to teach CS in ways that apply computing to mitigate climate change, but this alone is insufficient: we must also change what it means to do computing. We use duoethnography to interrogate our practices as CS educators to support the goal of integrating sustainability into CS. Despite being invested in these goals, we each realized that we had been nevertheless reinforcing the cultural norms that underpin the environmental and social damage caused by computing. We found five themes in the qualitative analysis of our reflections: (1) A lack of materiality in CS classes makes it difficult for computer scientists to scrutinize the environmental costs of hardware, (2) The discourse on "greenness" in computing neglects the role of embodied emissions, (3) The lack of context in CS education teaches students to perceive the status quo as "natural", (4) Those who have bought into the dominant ideology of CS can be resistant to innovating CS education, and (5) Materiality helps with teaching computing. We illustrate how changing CS to become more sustainable requires deeper thought than "add sustainability and stir" to the curriculum, and insights toward addressing the root ideology of CS education.

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Section: Methods 21 What Is a Duoethnography?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Materiality Matters in Computing Education: A Duoethnography of Two Digital Logic Educators

Mayhew

Patitsas

2021

LIMITS Workshop on Computing Within Limits

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“…Online communities have long been important social spaces where community members can find support and social interaction [65], including people who are part of vulnerable and marginalized communities: for example, trans and/or nonbinary communities [14,47], communities for persons who are LGBTQ+ [24,59], communities living outside (e.g. unhoused populations) [62,63,110,113], senior/elderly communities [50,112], and communities for persons living with disabilities (PWD) [37,38,55,74,99,115]. In these spaces, group identity can be very important [102], as well as safety [85,100] and privacy [25,47], yet platforms don't always have what communities need [19,20,25,85,100,114].…”

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More than a Modern Day Green Book: Exploring the Online Community of Black Twitter

Klassen

Kingsley

McCall

et al. 2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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The Negro Motorist Green Book was a tool used by the Black community to navigate systemic racism throughout the U.S. and around the world. Whether providing its users with safer roads to take or businesses that were welcoming to Black patrons, The Negro Motorist Green Book fostered pride and created a physical network of safe spaces within the Black community. Building a bridge between this artifact which served Black people for thirty years and the current moment, we explore Black Twitter as an online space where the Black community navigates identity, activism, racism, and more. Through interviews with people who engage with Black Twitter, we surface the benefits (such as community building, empowerment, and activism) and challenges (like dealing with racism, appropriation, and outsiders) on the platform, juxtaposing the Green Book as a historical artifact and Black Twitter as its contemporary counterpart. Equipped with these insights, we make suggestions including audience segmentation, privacy controls, and involving historically disenfranchised perspectives into the technological design process. These proposals have implications for the design of technologies that would serve Black communities by amplifying Black voices and bolstering work toward justice.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing; Computer supported cooperative work.

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“…Auto-ethnography has been adopted to capture a blind person's experience during a recreational cruise trip [58], as well as studying accounts of a hard-of-hearing traveler during 2.5 years [35]. This reflexive method has been extended to multiple auto-ethnographers (e.g., a trio-ethnography from three authors reflecting on their graduate school experiences as students with disabilities [36]), as well as collaboration among three accessibility researchers and a disability studies scholar to connect contexts and expertise [30]. Moreover, autobiographical design research has been adopted and reexamined to uncover nuances in long-term relationships between human and technology, as a way of offering new perspectives into otherwise hard-to-approach topics [18].…”

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Surfacing the Voices of People with Dementia: Strategies for Effective Inclusion of Proxy Stakeholders in Qualitative Research

Dai

Moffatt

2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Best practices for conducting HCI research on dementia care increasingly involve multiple stakeholders and incorporate diverse viewpoints. When done effectively, involving proxy stakeholders such as family members and professionals can help bring forward the voices of people with dementia. However, concrete practical guidance for navigating the challenges of integrating different perspectives is lacking. We critically reflect on our own recent qualitative fieldwork involving participants with dementia, family caregivers, and facilitators at a local social program for people with dementia, re-examining our interview transcripts and observation notes through content analysis. We illustrate practical approaches to prioritizing participants' voices through concrete excerpts that demonstrate strategies for better managing dynamics, intervening effectively, and engaging all stakeholders in the research process. Our reflections and proposed guidelines can benefit HCI researchers and practitioners working with vulnerable populations. We hope this work will spur further discussion and critique to strengthen and improve research practices in this domain.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in HCI.

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Living Disability Theory: Reflections on Access, Research, and Design

Cited by 95 publications

References 65 publications

Materiality Matters in Computing Education: A Duoethnography of Two Digital Logic Educators

Materiality Matters in Computing Education: A Duoethnography of Two Digital Logic Educators

More than a Modern Day Green Book: Exploring the Online Community of Black Twitter

Surfacing the Voices of People with Dementia: Strategies for Effective Inclusion of Proxy Stakeholders in Qualitative Research

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