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Shaowen Bardzell is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research mainly focuses on computer science, with significant contributions to the subfield of human-computer interaction. Bardzell's work spans various interdisciplinary areas including sociology and political science, clinical psychology, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist has explored multiple topics within innovative human-technology interaction, digital games and media, mobile crowdsensing and crowdsourcing, open source software innovations, persona design and applications, technology use by older adults, and child development related to digital technology.

Shaowen Bardzell's recent publications include the following:

  • The Menstruating Entrepreneur Kickstarting a New Politics of Women's Health, 2020, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
  • Alternatives to Agrilogistics: Designing for Ecological Thinking, 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Pro-Amateur"-Driven Technological Innovation, 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Announcing a new CHI subcommittee, 2020, interactions
  • Mitigating Exploitation, 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Frequent collaborators in Bardzell's research include Jeffrey Bardzell, Naomi Yamashita, Nicola J. Bidwell, Neha Kumar, and Helena M. Mentis.

The scientist publishes regularly in leading venues such as Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts, interactions, Designing Interactive Systems Conference, and ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.

Best Publications

  • Feminist HCI: taking stock and outlining an agenda for design

    Shaowen Bardzell

  • What is "critical" about critical design?

    Jeffrey Bardzell;Shaowen Bardzell

  • Towards a feminist HCI methodology: social science, feminism, and HCI

    Shaowen Bardzell;Jeffrey Bardzell

  • Critical design and critical theory: the challenge of designing for provocation

    Shaowen Bardzell;Jeffrey Bardzell;Jodi Forlizzi;John Zimmerman

  • An assessment of body appreciation and its relationship to sexual function in women

    Sonya Satinsky;Michael Reece;Barbara Dennis;Stephanie Sanders

  • Reconstituting the Utopian Vision of Making: HCI After Technosolutionism

    Silvia Lindtner;Shaowen Bardzell;Jeffrey Bardzell

  • The Proper Care and Feeding of Hackerspaces: Care Ethics and Cultures of Making

    Austin L. Toombs;Shaowen Bardzell;Jeffrey Bardzell

  • Designing for Cohabitation: Naturecultures, Hybrids, and Decentering the Human in Design

    Nancy Smith;Shaowen Bardzell;Jeffrey Bardzell

  • Immodest Proposals: Research Through Design and Knowledge

    Jeffrey Bardzell;Shaowen Bardzell;Lone Koefoed Hansen

  • Humanistic HCI

    Jeffrey Bardzell;Shaowen Bardzell

  • Making cultures: empowerment, participation, and democracy - or not?

    Morgan G. Ames;Jeffrey Bardzell;Shaowen Bardzell;Silvia Lindtner

  • Pleasure is your birthright: digitally enabled designer sex toys as a case of third-wave HCI

    Jeffrey Bardzell;Shaowen Bardzell

  • Sustainable Making? Balancing Optimism and Criticism in HCI Discourse

    David Roedl;Shaowen Bardzell;Jeffrey Bardzell

  • The Experience of Embodied Space in Virtual Worlds: An Ethnography of a Second Life Community

    Shaowen Bardzell;William Odom

  • Reading critical designs: supporting reasoned interpretations of critical design

    Jeffrey Bardzell;Shaowen Bardzell;Erik Stolterman

  • Becoming Makers: Hackerspace Member Habits, Values, and Identities

    A Toombs;S Bardzell;J Bardzell

  • Crafting quality in design: integrity, creativity, and public sensibility

    Shaowen Bardzell;Daniela K. Rosner;Jeffrey Bardzell

  • How HCI talks about sexuality: discursive strategies, blind spots, and opportunities for future research

    Gopinaath Kannabiran;Jeffrey Bardzell;Shaowen Bardzell

  • Watching Myself Watching Birds: Abjection, Ecological Thinking, and Posthuman Design

    Heidi R. Biggs;Jeffrey Bardzell;Shaowen Bardzell

  • The rogue in the lovely black dress: intimacy in world of warcraft

    Tyler Pace;Shaowen Bardzell;Jeffrey Bardzell

  • Structures, forms, and stuff: the materiality and medium of interaction

    Shad Gross;Jeffrey Bardzell;Shaowen Bardzell

  • Documenting the Research Through Design Process

    Jeffrey Bardzell;Shaowen Bardzell;Peter Dalsgaard;Shad Gross

  • Utopias of Participation: Feminism, Design, and the Futures

    Shaowen Bardzell

  • Symbiotic Encounters: HCI and Sustainable Agriculture

    Szu-Yu (Cyn) Liu;Shaowen Bardzell;Jeffrey Bardzell

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey Bardzell
Jeffrey Bardzell Pennsylvania State University
Elizabeth F. Churchill
Elizabeth F. Churchill Google (United States)
Margaret Burnett
Margaret Burnett Oregon State University
Mark Blythe
Mark Blythe Northumbria University
Carl DiSalvo
Carl DiSalvo Georgia Institute of Technology
Erik Stolterman
Erik Stolterman Indiana University
Phoebe Sengers
Phoebe Sengers Cornell University
Manfred Tscheligi
Manfred Tscheligi University of Salzburg
Michael Reece
Michael Reece Indiana University
Stephanie A. Sanders
Stephanie A. Sanders Indiana University

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