Social robots, conversational agents, voice assistants, and other embodied AI are
increasingly a feature of everyday life. What connects these various types of intelligent …

Design studies are an increasingly popular form of problem-driven visualization research,
yet there is little guidance available about how to do them effectively. In this paper we reflect …

Race and gender have long sociopolitical histories of classification in technical
infrastructures-from the passport to social media. Facial analysis technologies are …

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) addresses problems of interaction design:
understanding user needs to inform design, delivering novel designs that meet user needs …

HCI addresses problems of interaction design: delivering novel designs, evaluating existing
designs, and understanding user needs for future designs. Qualitative methods have an …

Technology for disabled people is often developed by non-disabled populations, producing
an environment where the perspectives of disabled researchers-particularly when they clash …

Research in HCI applied to clinical interventions relies on normative assumptions about
which bodies and minds are healthy, valuable, and desirable. To disrupt this normalizing …

We develop a new perspective on research conducted through visualization design study
that emphasizes design as a method of inquiry and the broad range of knowledge …

Ethnography is now a fundamental feature of design practice, taught in universities
worldwide and practiced widely in commerce. Despite its rise to prominence a great many …

HCI has a complex and often ambivalent attitude towards the issue of gender and interactive
systems. Here I discuss three dominant paradigms for treating gender in HCI, and discuss …