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"I am just terrified of my future" Epistemic Violence in Disability Related Technology Research
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Technology for disabled people is often developed by non-disabled populations, producing an environment where the perspectives of disabled researchers - particularly when they clash with normative ways of approaching accessible technology - are denigrated, dismissed or treated as invalid. This epistemic violence has manifest material consequences for our lives as disabled researchers engaging with work on our own states of being. Through a series of vignettes, we illustrate our experiences and the associated pain that comes with such engagement as well as the consequences of pervasive dehumanization of ourselves through existing works. Our aim is to identify the epistemic injustice disabled people experience within HCI, to question the epistemological base of knowledge production leading to said injustice and to take ownership of a narrative that all too often is created without our participation.
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- Authors
- Ymous, A., Spiel, K., Keyes, O., Williams, R. M., Good, J., Hornecker, E., & Bennett, C. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Somewhere, Too Many Places, Denmark
- University of Vienna (AT)
- University of Washington (US)
- University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- University of Sussex (GB)
- Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (DE)
- Carnegie Mellon University (US)
- Venue
- Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2020-04-25
- Pages
- 1-16
- OpenAlex
- W3030028481
- Cited by
- 160
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
- 2026: 25 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 27 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 4
- FWCI
- 21.26
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA) (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Microsoft (Ada Lovelace Fellowship)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Disability Rights and Representation
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies
- Social Sciences › Human Factors and Ergonomics › Digital Accessibility for Disabilities
- Keywords
- epistemic violence, epistemic injustice, disabled researchers, accessible technology, disability studies, human-computer interaction, dehumanization, knowledge production, researcher participation
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