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Shaowen Bardzell

Shaowen Bardzell

· Professor and Chair of Interactive Computing

Georgia Institute of Technology · Computer Science

Active 2004–2026

h-index35
Citations4.5k
Papers16038 last 5y
Funding$1.7M

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Shaowen Bardzell is Chair and Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Interactive Computing. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University and pursues a humanistic research agenda within the research and practice of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). A common thread throughout her work is the exploration of the contributions of feminism, design, and social science to support technology’s role in social change. Her recent research topics include care ethics and feminist utopian perspectives on IT, research through design, women’s health, posthumanist approaches to sustainable design, computational agriculture and food justice, and cultural and creative industries in Asia. Her work is supported by the National Science Foundation, Intel Corporation, and the Mellon Foundation, among others.

Research topics

  • Computer Science
  • Political Science
  • Sociology
  • Psychology
  • Law
  • Philosophy
  • Engineering
  • Nursing
  • Epistemology
  • Environmental ethics

Selected publications

  • Thrown from Normative Ground: Exploring the Potential of Disorientation as a Critical Methodological Strategy in HCI

    2024-05-11 · 20 citations

    articleOpen accessSenior author

    We introduce the concept of disorientation as an emerging critical methodological strategy for design research in HCI. Disorientation is a phenomenological concept developed by queer feminist theorist Sarah Ahmed that acknowledges the spatio-embodied ‘orientations’ of societal and cultural norms and the queering potential of ‘disorientations’. We use humanistic close reading to analyze three examples from queer, feminist, and more-than-human work in HCI. Our interpretation focuses on how HCI res…

    PublisherOA PDFDOI

  • Who is “I”?: Subjectivity and Ethnography in HCI

    2024-05-11 · 16 citations

    articleOpen accessSenior author

    HCI research applies ethnographic methods to understand and represent practices that involve the use of interactive systems. A subdomain of this work is interpretivist ethnography, which positions the researcher's perspectival view [37] as central to ethnographic research and its epistemic contribution. Given this we ask: How might ethnographic researchers in HCI surface the meaning-making role of their subjectivities in research? We reflect on our prior ethnographic fieldwork on small-scale sus…

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  • A Toolbox of Feminist Wonder: Theories and methods that can make a difference

    2023-10-13 · 13 citations

    article

    This one-day hybrid workshop builds on previous feminist CSCW workshops to explore feminist theoretical and methodological approaches that have provided us with useful tools to see things differently and make space for change. Since its inception over a decade ago, feminist HCI has progressed from the margins to mainstream HCI, with numerous references in the literature. Feminist HCI has also evolved to incorporate other critical HCI practices such as Queer HCI, participatory design, and specula…

    PublisherDOI

  • Post-growth HCI: Co-Envisioning HCI Beyond Economic Growth

    2024-05-11 · 12 citations

    articleOpen access

    Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) makes a significant contribution to economic growth; it is crucial to the market success of digital technologies, including digital services, platforms, and devices, which drive the economic engine. Economic growth, however, has a number of social and environmental consequences. Some HCI researchers have problematized the field’s engagement with growth, suggesting the post-growth philosophy as an alternative. Post-growth focuses on improving the quality of life c…

    PublisherOA PDFDOI

  • Resisting AI Solutionism: Where Do We Go From Here?

    2025-04-23 · 8 citations

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Frequent coauthors

  • Jeffrey Bardzell

    Pennsylvania State University

    118 shared

  • Silvia Lindtner

    University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

    12 shared

  • Austin L. Toombs

    Indiana University Bloomington

    12 shared

  • Tyler Pace

    Indiana University Bloomington

    11 shared

  • Neha Kumar

    Georgia Institute of Technology

    10 shared

  • Shad Gross

    9 shared

  • Nicola J. Bidwell

    Rhodes University

    9 shared

  • Guo Freeman

    Clemson University

    9 shared

Education

  • Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction

    University of California, Berkeley

    2002

  • M.S., Computer Science

    University of California, Berkeley

    1998

  • B.S., Computer Science

    University of California, Berkeley

    1996

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