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A social justice-oriented perspective on older adults technology use in HCI: three opportunities for societal inclusion
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Informatics.
2023 (English)In: Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. HCII 2023: Proceedings, Part II / [ed] Gao, Q., Zhou, J., Springer, 2023, p. 519-532Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

There is a growing strand of research on social justice in HCI. While many contemporary HCI studies are being conducted and analyzed in a social justice context, still few studies examine how this plays out among older adults and their use of technology. In this paper, three streams of HCI and HCI-connected research are mapped out describing personal characteristics, economic benefits, and age-related vulnerability at the forefront of older adults’ technology use. Through an empirical study and a social justice-oriented perspective, I establish how HCI research on older adults’ technology use fails to include important societal factors and misses out on valuable insights such as how societal structures can affect senior’s life and technology use. Contributions posit three opportunities into how a social justice-oriented perspective can benefit research regarding older adults’ technology use in HCI.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2023. p. 519-532
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISSN 0302-9743, E-ISSN 1611-3349 ; 14043
Keywords [en]
Ageism, HCI, Older adults, Social Justice
National Category
Human Computer Interaction Information Systems, Social aspects
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-215231DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-34917-1_35Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85172988254ISBN: 9783031349164 (print)ISBN: 9783031349171 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-215231DiVA, id: diva2:1805804
Conference
9th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2023, held as part of the 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2023, 23-28 July 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark
Available from: 2023-10-18 Created: 2023-10-18 Last updated: 2025-04-16Bibliographically approved
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1. Systemic sensitivity: on systemic oppression in socio-techical systems
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Systemic sensitivity: on systemic oppression in socio-techical systems
2025 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Alternative title[sv]
Systemisk känslighet : systemiskt förtryck i socio-tekniska system
Abstract [en]

As technology becomes an integral part of everyday life for many, it also becomes a tool to facilitate harm and injustice towards communities who face marginalization.

To understand and address challenges of systemic oppression, the field of human–computer interaction (HCI) has moved towards framing larger questions of injustice and systemic issues. Through the growing area of social justice in HCI, researchers are collectively working to frame more just futures for communities that have experienced marginalization. 

However, the influence of systemic oppression on socio-technical systems can create hard-to-predict outcomes that ultimately lead to reproducing harmful practices towards marginalized communities. 

Through the included papers in this dissertation, on a range of topics from cultural heritage for Sámi communities, ageism reproduced through technology implementation, socio-political awareness to mitigate technology-facilitated sex trafficking, supporting women with experience of sexual violence to paths of justice, building a cohesive and fluid understanding of social justice in HCI, and critiquing interpersonal safety technologies, I present and discuss how the influence of systemic oppression creates hard-to-predict outcomes in the socio-technical systems we create. I show how these outcomes can lead to reproducing harmful practices towards marginalized communities and why it is important to actively work against this. 

To address the outcomes and harmful practices that I refer to as the “harm-reproduction loop,” I propose a theoretical lens called systemic sensitivity. Systemic sensitivity is a lens to support researchers in understanding the loop, addressing hard-to-predict outcomes and mitigating harmful practices. In doing so, we can more actively work against systemic oppression and work towards socio-political change and long-term contributions towards marginalized communities. 

This dissertation is a compilation dissertation, which means it is based on six papers in total. These papers are the foundation of the work produced, and all have been conducted within social justice in HCI.

Abstract [sv]

Allteftersom teknologi blir en större del av människors liv kan det även bli ett allt större verktyg för systemiskt förtryck av marginaliserade grupper. 

För att förstå och adressera detta har området Människa-datorinteraktion (HCI) börjat centrera frågor om orättvisa och systemiska utmaningar. Genom det växande området ”Social Justice” inom HCI, arbetar forskare tillsammans med grupper och individer som upplevt marginalisering för att främja en rättvisare framtid. 

Men inflytandet som systemiskt förtryck har på socio-tekniska system kan skapa oförutsägbara resultat som i slutändan leder till att skadliga praktiker reproduceras gentemot marginaliserade grupper. Utan att vara känslig inför dessa resultat och skadliga praktiker kan forskare, trots motsatt avsikt, bidra till systemiskt förtryck. 

Genom artiklarna som ingår i denna avhandling presenterar och diskuterar jag hur inflytandet av systemiskt förtryck skapar svårförutsägbara utfall inom de sociotekniska system vi skapar. Jag visar hur dessa resultat kan leda till att reproducera skadliga metoder gentemot marginaliserade grupper och varför det är viktigt att aktivt motarbeta detta.

Grunden till avhandlingens bidrag kommer från 6 artiklar som handlar om allt från tillgång till kulturellt arv för samiska grupper, ålderism som reproduceras via teknologisk implementering, vikten av socio-politisk medvetenhet för att minska teknologiskt-faciliterad sextrafficking, digitalt stöd för kvinnor som upplevt sexuella övergrepp, hur man främjar en sammanhållen förståelse för Social Justice inom HCI, till att kritisera personlig säkerhetsteknologi. 

Avhandlingens bidrag stöttar HCI forskare att förstå och adressera systemiskt förtryck samt främjar positiv socio-politisk förändring gentemot marginaliserade grupper på lång sikt. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Umeå: Umeå University, 2025. p. 81
Series
Research reports in informatics, ISSN 1401-4572
Keywords
Human-Computer Interaction, Socio-Technical Systems, Social Justice, Systemic Oppression, Justice
National Category
Human Computer Interaction
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-237745 (URN)978-91-8070-678-0 (ISBN)978-91-8070-679-7 (ISBN)
Public defence
2025-05-23, MIT.A.121, 13:00 (English)
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Available from: 2025-04-23 Created: 2025-04-16 Last updated: 2025-04-22Bibliographically approved

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