EXPLORING THE CURRENT LANDSCAPE OF TRANS TECHNOLOGY DESIGN

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  • Oliver L Haimson University of Michigan, United States of America

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2023i0.13428

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technology design, transgender, design for marginalized populations

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Transgender people face substantial challenges in the world, such as discrimination, harassment, and lack of access to basic resources. Some of these challenges could be addressed to some extent with technology. In this paper I examine the world of trans technology design through interviews with 115 creators of trans technologies: apps, games, health resources, and other types of technology. I demonstrate that trans technology design processes are often deeply personal, and focus on the technology creator’s needs and desires. Thus, trans technology design can be empowering because technology creators have agency to create tools they need to navigate the world. However, in some cases when trans communities are not involved in design processes, this can lead to overly individualistic design that speaks primarily to more privileged trans people’s needs.

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2023-12-31

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Haimson, . O. L. (2023). EXPLORING THE CURRENT LANDSCAPE OF TRANS TECHNOLOGY DESIGN. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2023i0.13428

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