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Making Sense of Trauma Over Time: Interweaving Feminist Temporalities to Understand Histories

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Trauma, an emotional response to events with lasting impacts, is a significant public health issue influencing technology interactions. This paper focuses on the sixth principle of trauma-informed care—Cultural, Historical, and Gender Issues—by exploring multiple timescales of trauma and generational impacts through two ethnographic vignettes: a trauma-informed healthcare design project in Chicago and environmental advocacy in Borneo, Indonesia. We integrate feminist temporality to understand temporal contingencies in cultural contexts to inform future trauma-informed design and computing work. Our contributions include detailed ethnographic accounts that shift the focus from trauma as an individual event to a historically and communally felt phenomenon, advancing CSCW scholarship by incorporating historicist sensibilities and feminist theorizations of temporality.

Source: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

DOI: 10.1145/3711028

Authors: Catherine Wieczorek, Cindy Kaiying Lin, Shaowen Bardzell

Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Innovative Human-Technology Interaction

Subfield: Human-Computer Interaction

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Gender equality

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: National Science Foundation