My PhD looks at the design of social media through the lens of power, to understand how technologies can further marginalise queer and neurodivergent users, but also in what ways they support safe spaces that are fun. My research interests include social technologies, online communities, and queer and disabled perspectives, and I often use participatory and critical design methods. I am a bit obsessed with teaching and dissemination.
My research interests revolve around the convergence of deaf technology, critical access, and emerging technologies. Specifically, I'm interested in the relationship between the designing and development of emerging technologies and the acceptance by the deaf community. I’m dedicated to exploring deaf-centered approaches to technologies that have previously been designed without the wants and needs of the deaf community in mind.
In my research, I engage marginalised perspectives on embodied computing through a lens of Critical Access. To create novel and innovative technologies I work with disabled peers and/or gender minorities so that we may enact worlds we previously didn't even dare to dream about.
My research explores productive creative practices of non-expert technology users and their ways of meaning-making with digital tools. I have worked with diverse groups of people to fabricate diverse ideas: ranging from touch-interactive yarnbombing and a talking quilt to 3D-printed "empowering hacks" designed by people with disabilities for people with disabilities.
With my work I am exploring how technology can be designed to empower people with disabilities to lead self-determined lives. My research delves into the transformative potential of new technologies, while critically examining their impacts on individuals and society to ensure they serve as tools for empowerment rather than exclusion.
My PhD thesis explores technologically-mediated intimacies through a lens of queer and crip studies. In my work, I am committed to critically attend to and emphasize lived realities and practices of fellow queer and disabled people in the context of technological developments and knowledge production for/about us.
What is important to me in my research is to actively involve future users in the design and development process of new technologies and by this make sure that we create technologies that are really useful, useable and help making a difference in a person’s life.
As a psychologist, I'm interested in human well-being and research methods. My current main interests are disability theory, feminism, mental health, statistics and equality. In my dissertation, I aim to identify the key aspects that need support for disabled people facing gender-based violence and translate them into technological design. My approach is guided by the expertise and ideas of affected people.
As a Deaf curator, I focus on the reappraisal of accessible art by using technologies. Additionally, I am concerned with reformulating access to technology use as to support the self determination of deaf people. I do so by collaborting closely with the CCC hacker scene and the deaf community.
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In my PhD thesis I try to build tools alongside marginalized voices to shape spaces they feel safe in. I am interested in social internet technologies, the old web and any new medium inviting us to express ourselves. By deconstructing predatory systems, I want to develop technologies that are worth our trust.