A Panel to Confront the Differences in Intersectional HCI

Abstract

Computer science history better known in society is predominantly male, white, and heteronormative. It is also part of our culture, discourse, and society. We base our research on the third-wave of Human-Computer Interaction Studies. We bring a feminist technoscience perspective to investigate the disparities in gender, race, ethnicity, and class. From our systematic mapping, we learn that third-wave HCI studies are organized in three strands: Feminist HCI, Gender HCI, and Intersectional HCI. In the Intersectional HCI perspective, we identified that the proposals generally use just one category (for example: gender), and forget that intersectionality is a crossing categories. From this contradiction, we identified the gaps in 11 publications and produce a panel, that discusses the re-signification of categories. Our main objective is to create the panel to criticize the differences when HCI researches appropriate intersectional theory without considering black women's struggles and resistance. The study results are: a) structural barriers in low women participation; b) gender, race and ethnicity and class disparities is in computer science area but also in society and culture; c) intersection of race, class, and gender in third-wave HCI is controversially appropriate; d) power relations in macro axes reveal intentions of the majority in computer science and also in power spaces in society.