Designing for Intersectional Fat-Positive Information Seeking
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Explore a 15-minute conference talk from the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems that delves into designing fat-positive technologies. Learn about the participatory design workshops conducted with fat liberationist organizers and community members to imagine inclusive systems. Discover the features and values proposed for a fat-positive information-seeking system that helps users find size-inclusive resources, services, and healthcare providers in the offline world. Gain insights into the importance of intersectionality in design and how HCI theories can be synthesized into a framework for intersectional fat-positive HCI. Understand the challenges faced by fat people due to harmful stereotypes, discrimination, and inaccessibility in various spaces, and how technology can be leveraged to address these issues.
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"We happen to be different and different is not bad": Designing for Intersectional Fat-Positive I...
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ACM SIGCHI