I’ve been gathering a list of books and papers I think my own students should read when beginning their PhD in the field of HCI. I’ve decided to share it here and I will update as I add to the list. I’ve linked to free PDFs where provided.
As a caveat: I anticipate that many/most of my students will be doing some kind of community-based qualitative research. When the day comes that I branch out into other methods, I’ll update this list accordingly. I don’t expect that my passion for disenfranchised and marginalized communities will change and you see that reflected in this list. However, I am always learning and growing, so I might add and change this depending on how our academic landscape changes over time.
This page is a constant work in progress! If you have titles you think should be added, please feel free to email or tweet @liltove.
Titles are currently in no particular order. Last Updated: April 27, 2020
Methods
Kathy Charmaz. 2006. Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide to Qualitative Analysis. Sage Publications Ltd.
Gillian R. Hayes. 2011. The relationship of action research to human-computer interaction. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 18, 3: 1–20.
Margaret Kovach. 2009. Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Re-Centering Research: Community-based Research
While I include community specific literature in separate categories here, I highly recommend the readings in them, even if you are not working with those specific communities. These readings often transcend the singular community experience and have lessons for researchers working with disenfranchised communities broadly.
Eli Clare. 1999, 2009. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation. Duke University Press. Durham and London.
David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder. 2015. The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment. University of Michigan Press, United States.
Tanya Titchkosky. 2011. The Question of Access: Disability, Space, Meaning. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Jasbir Puar. 2017. Right To Maim: Debility Capacity Disability. Duke University Press.
Alison Kafer. 2013. Feminist, Queer, Crip. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
For additional reading list in social justice, feminist studies, anti-oppressive design, and design justice, I recommend this blog article:
https://medium.com/a-change-is-coming/gender-hci-feminist-hci-and-post-colonial-computing-f955a4054c89
Autism Community Specific Literature
Anne McGuire. 2016. War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Majia Holmer Nadesan. 2005. Constructing Autism: Unraveling the “truth” and understanding the social. Routledge, New York, N.Y.
Indigenous Community Specific Literature
Sarah Deer. 2015. Beginning & End of Rape Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America. University of Minnesota Press.
On (Surviving) Academia
Karen Kelsky. 2015. Professor Is in The Essential Guide to Turning Your PH D Into a Job. Three Rivers Press, CA.
The Disabled Experience
On Writing
Anne Lamott. 1995. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. Penguin Random House.
Joseph Harris. (2017). Rewriting: How to do Things with Text (2nd ed.). Boulder, Colorado: Utah State University Press.
On Writing Up (Your Dissertation)
Sonja K. Foss. 2015. Destination Dissertation A Travelers Guide To A Done Dissertation. Rowan & Littlefield Publishers.
Acknowledgments
Special thanks to those who have contributed items to this list and suggestions for future reads: Annie Forsman-Adams, Ashley Walker, Robin Roscigno, and Chris Wolf.
