[Air-L] "Construction" of Users

[Bobo]

Awesome list so far. Do any of these cites address technical impacts that
result from a failure to consider the user's intersectionality (eg
class/race/gender etc)?

What I'm thinking of is a case study where a critical humanist perspective
could have resulted in a better product. The VR system (oculus rift?) and
its motion sicknesses for female users comes to mind, curious what research
scholarship there is on this.

Apologies if this question is considered derailing the OP's request, happy
to start a new thread in the future if that is the case, just let me know!
New to the email list and blown away by what a great resource it is so
far...

Best,
Bobo
On Apr 21, 2015 10:01 AM, "Seda Gurses" <seda at nyu.edu> wrote:

>
> hi alex,
> this may be too specific, but cs folks in security and privacy research
> have put some thought into the construction of the user, too. i am adding
> some references below.
>
> what i have observed in this same sub-field is that little attention is
> given to issues of race, gender, sexuality, class (and intersectional
> analysis) when doing user studies. some work has been done to understand
> “cultural differences” by which the researchers refer to understandings of
> privacy in different countries. others have focused on age, but all in all,
> studies aim to gather the experience of an “average user”. i would
> personally be very interested to hear of references to articles explicitly
> conceptualizing “the human” in HCI through an intersectional or cultural
> lens.
>
>
>         Anne Adams and Martina Angela Sasse. Users Are Not The Enemy. In
> Communications of the ACM, 42 (2), 1999.
>
> http://hornbeam.cs.ucl.ac.uk/hcs/people/documents/Angela%20Publications/1999/p40-adams.pdf
>
>         L. Jean Camp. Reconceptualizing the Role of Security User. In
> Daedalus, 140(4), 2011.
>         http://www.ljean.com/files/SecurityPublicGood.pdf
>
>         Lorrie Faith Cranor. A Framework for Reasoning About the Human in
> the Loop. UPSEC '08.
>
> https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/upsec08/tech/full_papers/cranor/cranor.pdf
>
>         Seda Gurses and Claudia Diaz, Two tales of privacy in online
> social networks, IEEE Security and Privacy, 11(3), 2013.
>         https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/publications/article-2270.pdf
>
> great thanks to everyone for the super interesting references.
> cheers,
> s.
>
>
>
>
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