Gendered artifacts and user agency

Marshall, Andrea; Rode, Jennifer

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Description

Title

Gendered artifacts and user agency

Author(s)

• Marshall, Andrea
• Rode, Jennifer

Issue Date

2013-02

Keyword(s)

• Gender
• Feminist HCI
• Usability
• Participatory Design
• human-computer interaction

Abstract

In this poster we investigate the tension between feminist design ideals and issues of usability with regard to smart closets. Technological artifacts are inscribed with cultural attitudes toward gender, and in turn they can be used to reinforce societal conceptions of gender to users. We propose that smart closets, such as ClosetClique, our user prototype interface, present an opportunity to recognize gender as an integral part of design, in order to further realize feminist design goals. Additionally, our discussion of usability offers an explicit way to explore how female users react to smart closets as gendered technological artifacts.

Publisher

iSchools

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42077

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/13513

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Copyright © 2013 is held by the authors. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors.

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