HCI as heterodoxy: Technologies of identity and the queering of interaction with computers

Authors:
Ann Light
Affiliations:
Culture Communication and Computing Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield S1 1WB, United Kingdom
Venue:
Interacting with Computers
Year:
2011

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Abstract

As digital technologies are woven more closely into identity formation, society needs ways to keep tools flexible to many versions of self-presentation and avoid perpetuating the political status quo through conservative and apolitical designing. This paper explores one route, drawing on Queer Theory to look at resistance to computer formalisation of identity through queering. Several case studies explore how we might apply the oblique route to design of a range of technologies that help users define themselves. In particular, forgetting, obscuring, cheating and eluding are activities held up to counter computer strengths and offer a more flexible vision of interaction design for the future.