2022/06/14

Christine T. Wolf Ponders “Computing in Crip Time,” Shakes Central Tenants of UX in the Process

“Computing in Crip Time,” an article from the forthcoming 16th issue of Logic is published online. In it, artist and social computing researcher Christine T. Wolf takes the field of user UX design to task on its central tenets of ‘seamless’ interactions and accessibility. Drawing on disability scholar Ellen Samuels’ notion of ‘crip time,’ Wolf describes how her post-spinal injury experience of time and space is fundamentally different than that of abled bodies, and she uses that perspective to chip away at the biases embedded in UX. Putting both the flow state and productivity in her crosshairs, she challenges those working in the field to rethink their assumptions about access, and move towards a UX where “doing is re-imagined and re-configured, a process driven by … [bodies’] differing, situated abilities, instead of some trend, pattern, or prediction.”

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