Reflexivity, positionality, and disclosure in HCI | by Calvin Liang | Sep, 2021 | Medium

Are you an HCI researcher thinking about including a positionality statement? Here are some thoughts.

9 min read Sep 6, 2021 -- Are you an HCI researcher thinking about including a positionality statement, possibly for that CHI paper you’ve been working on? Here are some thoughts, mostly drawn from a paper I wrote: Embracing Four Tensions in Human-Computer Interaction Research with Marginalized People. Apologies for brevity and the occasional tupo. tldr; yes, you should include a positionality statement — even if your paper does or does not involve marginalization — that covers values, ethical considerations, biases, and, only if YOU want to, disclosure of parts of your identity. A very…

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