(Dieser Text ist die lose deutsche Übersetzung eines vorherigen Beitrages auf Medium.) Meine Kollegin Kathrin Gerling und ich haben uns gewundert, was der aktuelle Stand der Forschung im Bereich digitaler Spiele und neurodivergenter Menschen im Bezug auf individual Spielmodi bzw. Benutzbarkeit ist. Der dazugehörige Artikel wurde nun veröffentlicht und ich…

My colleague Kathrin Gerling and I were wondering what the research on Digital Games and neurodivergent folks says regarding individual modes of play and/or accessibility. The associated paper is now published and I will try and briefly summarise our findings here. But let me just start with: Wow, were we…

A couple months ago, I was invited to a workshop about boundary drawing in scientific disciplines more generally, though with a focus on Women’s, Gender and Feminist Studies in particular. The invitation to me was specifically on how I navigate my gender (nonbinary) and disability in my academic practice. A…

This article comes with a content note on violent ableism. Technology research follows a dangerous mantra claiming that with the preferences for sameness and predictability, autistic people are uniquely adept with technological environments and supposedly prefer them over human contact. The short-sighted notion ignoring the multi-facetted ways in which autistic…

Yesterday evening, I gave a talk at the eMedia Research Lab at KU Leuven about “Bodies in Play”. It attracted a surprisingly large audience asking interesting and intriguing questions that challenged and strengthened my theoretical explorations in this area. Additionally, there seemed to be interest by others to hear about…

[This post specifically addresses a recent update for the submission and reviewing guidelines of CHI, a conference within the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research community, but might be relevant for readers interested in discussions around what constitutes ‘good research’ more broadly.] To discuss different aspects of what constitutes quality in research…

Ableism is deeply tied into our everyday language. There are countless examples of where disabilities are used to imply negativity very explicitly. …

Last week, I went out to the movie premiere of ‘A Glossary of Broken Dreams’. It’s monochrom’s latest outlet for critique with all that is wrong with the world, as ever represented mostly by Johannes Grenzfurthner as the unlikely likeable narrator, producer, leading figure and anchor point of the movie. …

The first time I heard about Poo Pourri, I chuckled. In the middle of one of my favourite podcasts, there was it. An advert discussing poop and the teenager inside of me was amused. But then Poo Pourri took over. By now every podcast I listen to seems to be…