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An Archive of Their Own: A Case Study of Feminist HCI and Values in Design
Casey Fiesler, Shannon Morrison, Amy S. Bruckman

CHI ‘16: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Session: HCI and Gender

Abstract
Rarely
are computing systems developed entirely by members of the communities
they serve, particularly when that community is underrepresented in
computing. Archive of Our Own (AO3), a fan fiction archive with nearly
750,000 users and over 2 million individual works, was designed and
coded primarily by women to meet the needs of the online fandom
community. Their design decisions were informed by existing values and
norms around issues such as accessibility, inclusivity, and identity. We
conducted interviews with 28 users and developers, and with this data
we detail the history and design of AO3 using the framework of feminist
HCI and focusing on the successful incorporation of values into design.
We conclude with considering examples of complexity in values in design
work: the use of design to mitigate tensions in values and to influence
value formation or change.

DOI:: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2858036.285…
WEB:: https://chi2016.acm.org/

Recorded at the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in San Jose, CA, United States, May 7-12, 2016