CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

This workshop invites the CHI community to interrogate how categorical framings operate in HCI—across forms, datasets, interfaces, and recruitment—and to imagine alternatives that better reflect multiplicity and self-determination.

We invite HCI researchers, designers, and practitioners to critically engage with how identity is framed in HCI, by asking:

1. How do categorical assumptions shape research and design practices in HCI, and what forms of exclusion do they produce?

2. What theoretical perspectives—from feminist, intersectional, crip, queer, or postcolonial traditions—help us approach identity as fluid, contextual, and contested?

3. What might HCI systems look like if identity were treated as relational and evolving, rather than as fixed categories?

The workshop will bring together storytelling, artifact analysis, and speculative design activities to move from critique to co-creation. Together, we will develop a collective manifesto and visual artifacts, later published in a special issue of SkinMutts Magazine to ensure accessibility beyond academic venues.