Patel, Dilisha;
Osipova, Ekat;
Spiel, Katta;
Barbareschi, Giulia;
(2025)
A Critical Review of Sexuality, Technology and Disability.
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Proceedings of the CHI '25: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): Yokohama, Japan.
(In press).
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Abstract
The investigation of technologies facilitating sexual interactions and sexuality-related explorations is becoming more established in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), albeit with little systematic attention to the sexual lives of disabled people. In this space, we undertook a literature review utilising feminist content analysis to take stock and critically analyse the domains of sexuality, technology and disability when they intersect. Our approach aligns with the broader goals of promoting inclusivity, diversity, and equity in technology design and application. We present a descriptive and analytical outline of existing research on sexuality, technology and disability through which we identified unmarked norms governing research. These include a focus on individualised technologies oriented on heteronormative assumptions on sexual desires. In addition, we focus on common methods employed and describe the involvement, or lack thereof, of disabled people in research practice. This highlights gaps in our collective knowledge from which we can derive areas for future work.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | A Critical Review of Sexuality, Technology and Disability |
| Event: | CHI '25: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| Location: | Yokohama, Japan |
| Dates: | 26 Apr 2025 - 1 May 2025 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3706598.3713994 |
| Publisher version: | https://dl.acm.org/browse/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialShareAlike 4.0 International License. © 2025 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). |
| Keywords: | Disability, Sexuality, Technology, Critical Review, Inclusivity, Access |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206567 |
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