In the Critical/Cultural Approaches in HCI panel, Jordan, Wesley, Adinawa, and Cella shared their research, discussed some relevant case studies, and shared insights on how critical/cultural approaches can be used in design with us. Here are some key takeaways:

• ✏️ Critical HCI deals with issues related to knowledge, power, and social structures.
• 😲 Technologies like Google image search and DALLE 2 implicitly exacerbate a lot of social hierarchy and bias.
• 🧐 User-facing roles play indispensable roles in bring in evidence from users to advocate for fairness work
• 💬 In areas like augmented language tools, it shows the importance of focusing on cross-cultural exchange and the human side of it.
• 👥 It is important to look into the actual users instead of creating our own ones to make proof-of-concept technologies to scale.

<aside> 💡 If you are interested in knowing more about their work and connect with them, please check our event web page for their introduction, work, contact, and more!

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• Jordan Taylor
• Wesley Deng
• Adinawa Adjagbodjou
• Cella Sum
• Q&A