Shaowen Bardzell

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Whose Time Counts? Temporal Arrangements in Sociotechnical Infrastructures

This paper examines how infrastructures organize time in ways that unevenly distribute burden, access, and opportunity across communities. We draw on two ethnographic cases: eviction case filings in Atlanta, part of the state’s legal and housing governance infrastructure, and a sexual healthcare intervention in Chicag…

CSCW '25CorrespondingTrauma & Abuse

Making Sense of Trauma Over Time: Interweaving Feminist Temporalities to Understand Histories

Trauma, an emotional response to events with lasting impacts, is a significant public health issue influencing technology interactions. This paper focuses on the sixth principle of trauma-informed care—Cultural, Historical, and Gender Issues—by exploring multiple timescales of trauma and generational impacts through t…

CHI '25CorrespondingAI Ethics, Fairness & Accountability +2

Architecting Utopias: How AI in Healthcare Envisions Societal Ideals and Human Flourishing

Many narratives around AI systems promise a utopian vision of empowerment, inclusivity, and democratization, yet there remains a gap in how to concretely pursue such a promise. In this paper, we review and analyze a curated set of AI-driven healthcare products, leveraging sociologist Ruth Levitas' three distinct but i…

CHI '24CorrespondingTechnology Ethics & Critical HCI +2

Who is "I"?: Subjectivity and Ethnography in HCI

HCI research applies ethnographic methods to understand and represent practices that involve the use of interactive systems. A subdomain of this work is interpretivist ethnography, which positions the researcher’s perspectival view [37] as central to ethnographic research and its epistemic contribution. Given this we…

CHI '24CorrespondingGender & Race Issues in HCI +1

Thrown from Normative Ground: Exploring the Potential of Disorientation as a Critical Methodological Strategy in HCI

We introduce the concept of disorientation as an emerging critical methodological strategy for design research in HCI. Disorientation is a phenomenological concept developed by queer feminist theorist Sarah Ahmed that acknowledges the spatio-embodied ‘orientations’ of societal and cultural norms and the queering poten…

DIS '23CorrespondingGender & Race Issues in HCI +1

TikTok as a Stage: Performing Rural #farmqueer Utopias on TikTok

In this paper, we examine how an under-studied group in HCI, rural queer farmers, use the social media platform TikTok to perform rural queer utopias. Queer utopia, coined by queer theorist Jose Muñoz, is a way of using queer aesthetics and performance to expose heterosexual norms and imagine worlds of hopeful queer a…

CHI '23CorrespondingAlgorithmic Fairness & Bias +3

Redlining Maps and Terrains of Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Mapping of Racialized Redlining to Present-Day Sustainability Agendas in HCI

We ask how historic redlining, a US government run, racially discriminatory practice of assessing and mapping property values for federally subsidized home loan eligibility in the 1930s, is tied to current issues of sustainability. We frame redlining as a historic data practice, tied to ongoing exposure to environment…

CSCW '21CorrespondingSustainable Infrastructures for Rural and Local Computing

Alternatives to Agrilogistics: Designing for Ecological Thinking

Sustainable HCI (SHCI) researchers have historically looked to small and urban farmers to help situate and extend notions of sustainability within economic, social, and political frameworks. In the face of climate change and the Anthropocene, however, we ask how designing like the alternative farming practices of smal…

CSCW '21CorrespondingInfrastructures

The Flaky Accretions of Infrastructure: Sociotechnical Systems, Citizenship, and the Water Supply

The convergence of networked digital infrastructures and built environments have given rise to the “urban user”, a conflation of “the user” and “the resident” or “the citizen”. The urban user and the city infrastructures are mutually constituted phenomena formed through the interactions between them. In this research,…

CHI '212nd AuthorSustainable HCI +1

Wanting To Live Here: Design After Anthropocentric Functionalism

Design research has recently turned to theoretical perspectives, including care ethics and posthumanism, to counter the industrial processes that have led to climate crisis. As design theorists and ethnographers of interaction, we researched experimental eco-farming in a community that shared many of these theoretical…

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