Queer HCI

Examining the Experiences of LGBTQ+ People in HCI, and in Social Computing More Broadly

Work on representation on queer people, queer identities, and queer theory in HCI and social computing more broadly.

Papers in This Project

  1. Taylor, J. Simpson, E., Tran, A., Brubaker, J., Fox, S., and Zhu, H. Cruising the ACM on the DL: A Literature Review of LGBTQ+ People in HCI. (2024). In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642494 - read a preprint here

  2. Simpson, E., Hamann, A., Semaan, B. (2022). How to Tame “Your” Algorithm: LGBTQ+ Users’ Domestication of TikTok. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Computer Interaction. Vol. 6, GROUP, Article 22 (January 2022), 27 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3492841 - read a preprint here

  3. DeVito, M. A., Lustig, C., Simpson, E., Allison, K., Chuanromanee, T., Spiel, K., Ko, A., Rode, J., Dym, B., Muller, M., Scheuerman, M.K., Walker, A.M. Brubaker, J., and Ahmed, A. (2021, May). Queer in HCI: Strengthening the Community of LGBTQIA+ Researchers and Research. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-3). https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3450403

  4. Simpson, E . and Semaan, B. (2021). For You, or For “You”?: Everyday LGBTQ+ Encounters with TikTok. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. 4, CSCW3, Article 252 (January 2021), 34 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3432951 - read a preprint here

  5. DeVito, M.A., Walker, A.M., Lustig, C., Ko, A., Spiel, K., Ahmed, A., Allison, K., Scheuerman, M., Dym, B., Brubaker, J., Simpson, E., Bagalkot, N., Raval, N., Muller, M., Rode, J., and Gray, M.L. (2020, April). Queer in HCI: Supporting LGBTQIA+ Researchers and Research Across Domains. Special Interest Group Convened at the 2020 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, HI. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3381058