Feminist HCI and narratives of design semantics in DIY music hardware

IF 1.5 Q2 COMMUNICATION
Karolina Jawad, Anna Xambó Sedó
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Feminist Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) integrates gender, diversity, equity, and social justice into technology research and design, fostering a more inclusive and socially aware technology landscape. This article explores the design semantics of ten Do-it-Yourself (DIY) musical instruments created by women builders. Design semantics refers to the associations conveyed by designed objects so as to identity, emotions, performance or the environment and their sensory qualities such as shape, size, touch or vision. Together these associations and qualities can establish design narratives that influence the way meaning is ascribed. We conduct an analysis of these instruments to answer the question of how fabulations of design semantics, through the lens of feminist HCI principles, can reshape our understanding of gender bias in object design within the realm of DIY musical instruments constructed by women builders. Our investigation uncovers a feminist narrative taking shape as we found out that DIY instruments design contributes to the fabulation of alternative futures that challenge prevalent current gender expectations associated with commercial music hardware. DIY instruments provide a platform for questioning established gender norms, enabling the development of technologies that embrace diverse perspectives and maintain a technical identity.
女性主义人机交互和 DIY 音乐硬件中的设计语义叙事
女性主义人机交互(HCI)将性别、多样性、公平和社会正义融入到技术研究和设计中,促进了更具包容性和社会意识的技术发展。本文探讨了十种由女性制作者制作的自助(DIY)乐器的设计语义。设计语义是指设计对象所传达的身份、情感、性能或环境方面的联想,以及它们的感官特质,如形状、大小、触感或视觉。这些联想和特质可以共同建立设计叙事,影响意义的赋予方式。我们对这些乐器进行了分析,以回答这样一个问题:从女性主义人机交互原则的视角来看,设计语义的编造如何能够重塑我们对由女性建造者建造的 DIY 乐器领域中物品设计的性别偏见的理解。我们的调查发现,DIY 乐器设计有助于创造另一种未来,挑战当前与商业音乐硬件相关的普遍性别期望,从而揭示了正在形成的女性主义叙事。DIY 乐器为质疑既有的性别规范提供了一个平台,从而能够开发出既能接受不同观点又能保持技术特性的技术。
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