We are delighted to be hosting a workshop at the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems in Copenhagen, on the 1st of July 2024.

The workshop aims to explore the intersection of community-led ethics, feminist HCI, and digital civics, with a focus on fostering collaborative research practices grounded in ethical principles. Participants will engage in discussions, activities, and hands-on ideation sessions to develop a meta-toolkit for community-led feminist ethics for HCI projects. We encourage all who wish to join us in building this meta-toolkit to apply, especially those with relevant personal or professional experience with embedded research and/or feminist research practices.

Participants will be asked to submit a short expression of interest paragraph as to why they are interested in attending the workshop (maximum 300 words).

Submissions are due on the 19th of June and should be emailed to ana.o.henriques@tecnico.ulisboa.pt with the following subject line:

Fostering Feminist Community-Led Ethics Workshop

Event Overview:

We conducted a workshop at DIS 2024 in Copenhagen, which advocated for a dynamic, community-led approach to ethics in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) by integrating principles from feminist HCI and digital civics. Traditional ethics in HCI often overlook interpersonal considerations, resulting in static frameworks that are ill-equipped to address the complexities of dynamic social contexts and power dynamics. 

Drawing from feminist perspectives, this workshop aimed to develop a meta-toolkit for community-led feminist ethics, fostering collaborative research practices grounded in feminist ethical principles. Through pre-workshop activities, interactive sessions, and post-workshop discussions, participants engaged in dialogue to advance community-led ethical research practices. This initiative also sought to strengthen the interdisciplinary community of researchers and practitioners interested in ethics, digital civics, and feminist HCI. By fostering a reflexive approach to ethics, the workshop contributes to the discourse on design’s role in shaping future interactions between individuals, communities, and technology. 

Workshop at Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Copenhagen 2024.

This ongoing project is a collaborative effort involving Ana O. Henriques and Hugo Nicolau from the DCitizens Project at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa; Anna Carter and Kyle Montague, from the DCitizens project and Centre for Digital Citizens, Northumbria University; Reem Talhouk and Angelika Strohmayer from the School of Design, Northumbria University; Sarah Ruller from the DCitizens project at the University of Siegen; Cayley Macarthur from the University of Waterloo, Shaowen Bardzell from the School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Colin M. Gray from Indiana University Bloomington, and Eleonore Fournier-Tombs from the UNU Centre for Policy Research. 

What is the impact?

This project resulted in an ACM publication of a workshop paper at DIS 2024, the annual Designing Interactive Systems Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. We are currently working on follow-up publications focused on the content and methodologies emerging from these discussions and publications. 

  • Ana O Henriques, Hugo Nicolau, Anna R. L. Carter, Kyle Montague, Reem Talhouk, Angelika Strohmayer, Sarah Rüller, Cayley Macarthur, Shaowen Bardzell, Colin M. Gray, and Eleonore Fournier-Tombs. 2024. Fostering Feminist Community-Led Ethics: Building Tools and Connections. In Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 424–428. https://doi.org/10.1145/3656156.3658385