Sociotechnical imaginaries of responsible design: A case for mitigating gender-based online harm
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Date
2026-04-13
Authors
Zhang, Min
Bandara, Arosha K.
Rugg, Gordon
Rauf, Irum
Gamage, Dilrukshi
Nuseibeh, Bashar
Podesta, Silvia
Cai, Wanling
Robinson, Sarah
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Association for Computing Machinery
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Abstract
Gender-based online harm has become a global problem due to technological advances and affordances. Despite an increasing interest in designing technical and legal interventions in tackling online harm, the level of online violence against women and girls remains high. Responsible design plays a pivotal role in mitigating technological harms, and it has particularly captured attention in the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This workshop aims to use the sociotechnical imaginary framework to bring together HCI researchers, developers, and practitioners across domains and sectors to collectively reflect and envision how responsible design can address gender-based online harm. Through facilitated hands-on activities, participants will explore how new approaches, paradigms, technologies, and mechanisms can be designed and implemented to better understand the responsibility in responsible design. This will also help the HCI community understand how to put responsible design into practice and shape the future of responsible technology that prevents gender-based online harms.
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Digital abuse , Gender-based online violence , Online harm against women and girls , Online safety , Responsibility , Responsible design , Responsible technology , Sociotechnical imaginary , Technology-facilitated gender-based violence , [AppliedPsychology] , [SocialStudies]
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Zhang, M, Bandara, A K, Rugg, G, Rauf, I, Gamage, D, Nuseibeh, B, Podesta, S, Cai, W & Robinson, S 2026, Sociotechnical imaginaries of responsible design: A case for mitigating gender-based online harm. in N Oliver, D A Shamma, H Candello, P Cesar, P Lopes, V Artizzu, F Draxler, G Lopez, A V Reinschluessel, X Tong & P O Toups Dugas (eds), CHI EA '26: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Barcelona, Spain 13 - 17 April 2026., 968, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings , Association for Computing Machinery , pp. 1-6, Extended Abtracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2026, Barcelona, Spain, 13/04/26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3778700
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