Designing Trans Technology: Defining Challenges and Envisioning Community-Centered Solutions

@article{Haimson2020DesigningTT,
  title={Designing Trans Technology: Defining Challenges and Envisioning Community-Centered Solutions},
  author={Oliver L. Haimson and Dykee Gorrell and Denny L. Starks and Zu Weinger},
  journal={Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  year={2020}
}
Transgender and non-binary people face substantial challenges in the world, ranging from social inequities and discrimination to lack of access to resources. Though technology cannot fully solve these problems, technological solutions may help to address some of the challenges trans people and communities face. We conducted a series of participatory design sessions (total N = 21 participants) to understand trans people's most pressing challenges and to involve this population in the design… 
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