Bodies in Play

This is a crosspost from an article, I wrote first on Medium. Yesterday evening, I gave a talk at the eMedia Research Lab at KU Leuven about “Bodies in Play”. It attracted a surprisingly large audience asking interesting and intriguing questions that challenged and strengthened my theoretical explorations in this area. Additionally, there seemed to be interest by others …

Piss Perfect: Privacy in Continence Care

On October 27th, 2019, I gave a talk at privacy week. I will edit this post to insert a static video once it is up. Until then, have a look at my slides and the abstract. With 50% of residents in nursing homes classified as incontinent, continence care is an area in which technological development …

Beyond Transparency — Comments on the Update to Submission and Reviewing Guidelines for CHI

This is a crosspost from an article, I wrote first on Medium. [This post specifically addresses a recent update for the submission and reviewing guidelines of CHI, a conference within the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research community, but might be relevant for readers interested in discussions around what constitutes ‘good research’ more broadly.] To discuss different aspects of what constitutes …

“Anonymous Review” says it all

This is a crosspost from an article, I wrote first on Medium. Ableism is deeply tied into our everyday language. There are countless examples of where disabilities are used to imply negativity very explicitly. Today, though, I want to write about a more deeply entangled case; I am asking people to stop (and I’m only …