TY - GEN
T1 - "What is Safety?"
T2 - 27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW Companion 2024
AU - Walker, Ashley Marie
AU - Devito, Michael Ann
AU - Badillo-Urquiola, Karla
AU - Bellini, Rosanna
AU - Chancellor, Stevie
AU - Feuston, Jessica L.
AU - Henne, Kathryn
AU - Kelley, Patrick Gage
AU - Rismani, Shalaleh
AU - Shelby, Renee
AU - Zhang, Renwen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Owner/Author.
PY - 2024/11/13
Y1 - 2024/11/13
N2 - Safety is a frequently discussed and increasingly important topic in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and one historically wellrepresented at CSCW [30]. However, CSCW is a diverse community that engages multiple fields and perspectives; therefore, the community employs multiple, sometimes contradictory, definitions of technologically-mediated 'safety' both at the conference and in the field overall. While different concepts of safety may have clear meaning within a computing subfield, the overall importance of safety as a topic to HCI and the need to communicate clearly across subfields and to other disciplines underscores the importance of exploring how differing approaches to defining and operationalizing safety compare and potentially build on/communicate with each other. Moreover, by comparing, contrasting, and synthesizing CSCW's multiple approaches to safety, we can better understand and account for safety as a whole. A core goal of this workshop is to make progress towards a collective understanding of safety. Without clarity on such an important concept, there will be wasted efforts in intervention design for mitigating harms for impacted users and communities, and we squander the potential for effective, academic collaboration. In this workshop, we take the first step towards initiating a conversation between different HCI perspectives on safety and mapping out the multitude of different goals, aspirations, and working definitions of what academic research on and about safety looks like.
AB - Safety is a frequently discussed and increasingly important topic in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and one historically wellrepresented at CSCW [30]. However, CSCW is a diverse community that engages multiple fields and perspectives; therefore, the community employs multiple, sometimes contradictory, definitions of technologically-mediated 'safety' both at the conference and in the field overall. While different concepts of safety may have clear meaning within a computing subfield, the overall importance of safety as a topic to HCI and the need to communicate clearly across subfields and to other disciplines underscores the importance of exploring how differing approaches to defining and operationalizing safety compare and potentially build on/communicate with each other. Moreover, by comparing, contrasting, and synthesizing CSCW's multiple approaches to safety, we can better understand and account for safety as a whole. A core goal of this workshop is to make progress towards a collective understanding of safety. Without clarity on such an important concept, there will be wasted efforts in intervention design for mitigating harms for impacted users and communities, and we squander the potential for effective, academic collaboration. In this workshop, we take the first step towards initiating a conversation between different HCI perspectives on safety and mapping out the multitude of different goals, aspirations, and working definitions of what academic research on and about safety looks like.
KW - digital safety
KW - harms
KW - risks
KW - safety
KW - what is safety
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U2 - 10.1145/3678884.3681824
DO - 10.1145/3678884.3681824
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85214587395
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 736
EP - 739
BT - CSCW Companion 2024 - Companion of the 2024 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
A2 - Bernstein, Michael
A2 - Bruckman, Amy
A2 - Gadiraju, Ujwal
A2 - Halfaker, Aaron
A2 - Ma, Xiaojuan
A2 - Pinatti, Fabiano
A2 - Redi, Miriam
A2 - Ribes, David
A2 - Savage, Saiph
A2 - Zhang, Amy
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 9 November 2024 through 13 November 2024
ER -