Singh, Aneesha;
Dechant, Martin;
Patel, DIlisha;
Soubutts, Ewan;
Barbareschi, Giulia;
Ayobi, Amid;
Newhouse, Nicola;
(2025)
Exploring Positionality in HCI: Perspectives, Trends, and Challenges.
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Proceedings of CHI '25: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): Yokohama, Japan.
(In press).
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Abstract
Positionality is a concept that acknowledges subjectivities, values and experiences of researchers as influencing approaches to and outcomes and implications of research; it underlines the importance of reflexivity and self-awareness. To understand how positionality is used in HCI, we conducted two studies: (i) a scoping review of positionality and reflexivity statements in the CHI papers in the last 11 years and (ii) a survey of HCI researchers (n=75). Our findings show that positionality statements are often a box-ticking exercise and their influence on the research is rarely discussed. While positionality statements are often used and requested in papers, they are often restricted to more sensitive areas of research and impact marginalised identities. We argue that positionality statements can be valuable but not as markers of methodological rigour. Our contributions include a current snapshot of positionality in HCI and reflections on the role of positionality statements in HCI.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Exploring Positionality in HCI: Perspectives, Trends, and Challenges |
| Event: | CHI '25: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| Location: | Yokohama, Japan, April 2025 |
| Dates: | 26 Apr 2025 - 1 May 2025 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3706598.3713280 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713280 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. CHI ’25, Yokohama, Japan © 2025 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > UCL Interaction Centre |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205865 |
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