The significant screwdriver: Care, domestic masculinity, and interaction design

Shaowen Bardzell; Shad Gross; Jeffrey Wain; Austin Toombs; Jeffrey Bardzell

doi:10.14236/ewic/hci2011.67

The significant screwdriver: Care, domestic masculinity, and interaction design

Shaowen Bardzell, Shad Gross, Jeffrey Wain, Austin Toombs, Jeffrey Bardzell

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Abstract

HCI is increasingly recognizing its accountability to stakeholders beyond individual end users. The field now acknowledges that interaction designs participate in social formations, exerting political force whether or not designers intend them to. Inspired by the commitment to social issues common to the arts, architecture, and the humanities, we present the Significant Screwdriver, a research through design pro-ject that explicitly seeks to transgress social norms regarding the gendered division of labour in the do-mestic sphere in hopes of yielding insights or orientations toward improving the quality of domestic life.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	371-377
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2011.67
State	Published - 2011
Event	25th BCS onference on Human Computer Interaction, HCI 2011 - Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom Duration: Jul 4 2011 → Jul 8 2011

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Conference	25th BCS onference on Human Computer Interaction, HCI 2011
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Newcastle Upon Tyne
Period	7/4/11 → 7/8/11

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Human-Computer Interaction

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