Michael Ahmadi, M.A.

2021

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  de Castro Leal, D., Krüger, M., Ahmadi, M., Appiah, J., Gómez, R. B. A., Courtney, D., Daee, A., Ciciolli, M. B. G., Hieber, L., Hossain, M. S., Jeongmin, L., Plogmann, R., Pinto, L. S., Sinnathurai, S., Yepez, D. & Wulf, V. (2021)HCI’s Role in the Capitalocene

  Workshop on Computing within Limits. doi:https://doi.org/10.21428/bf6fb269.67a8d057
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  Various concepts have attempted to capture the nature of the contemporary political-economic system of globalised capitalism and its disastrous consequences for the planet, including World System Analysis or the Capitalocene. Especially Decolonial thinkers see its roots in colonialism. The resulting modernity/coloniality structures many aspects of human life everywhere, including gender identities, relationships amongst humans and with nature. Technology plays a vital part, requiring reflections on how HCI researchers can react to these challenges. In a class of an HCI master program, we have attempted to jointly begin to understand HCI’s role in the capitalocene by studying relevant concepts and empirically investigating specific local yet connected phenomena. With participants being distributed across the globe, we were able to study different shared yet locally specific phenomena inspired by multisited ethnography. In this paper, we report on the structure and experience of the class as well as our findings.

  @inproceedings{de_castro_leal_hcis_2021,
  title = {{HCI}’s {Role} in the {Capitalocene}},
  url = {https://limits.pubpub.org/pub/f8ee6iac/release/1},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.21428/bf6fb269.67a8d057},
  abstract = {Various concepts have attempted to capture the nature of the contemporary political-economic system of globalised capitalism and its disastrous consequences for the planet, including World System Analysis or the Capitalocene. Especially Decolonial thinkers see its roots in colonialism. The resulting modernity/coloniality structures many aspects of human life everywhere, including gender identities, relationships amongst humans and with nature. Technology plays a vital part, requiring reflections on how HCI researchers can react to these challenges. In a class of an HCI master program, we have attempted to jointly begin to understand HCI’s role in the capitalocene by studying relevant concepts and empirically investigating specific local yet connected phenomena. With participants being distributed across the globe, we were able to study different shared yet locally specific phenomena inspired by multisited ethnography. In this paper, we report on the structure and experience of the class as well as our findings.},
  booktitle = {Workshop on {Computing} within {Limits}},
  author = {de Castro Leal, Débora and Krüger, Max and Ahmadi, Michael and Appiah, Jason and Gómez, Ricardo A Baquero and Courtney, Daniel and Daee, Ata and Ciciolli, María Belén Giménez and Hieber, Lena and Hossain, Md Shakhawat and Jeongmin, , Lee and Plogmann, Ramona and Pinto, Liliana Savage and Sinnathurai, Sasmitha and Yepez, Darinka and Wulf, Volker},
  month = jul,
  year = {2021},
  }

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  Aal, K., Weibert, A., Ahmadi, M., Rohde, M. & Wulf, V. (2021)Soziale Medien in politischen Konfliktsituationen mit Fokus auf den arabischen Frühling

  IN Reuter, C. (Ed.), Sicherheitskritische Mensch-Computer-Interaktion: Interaktive Technologien und Soziale Medien im Krisen- und Sicherheitsmanagement Wiesbaden doi:10.1007/978-3-658-32795-8_29
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  Die Umwälzungen im Nahen Osten, der sogenannte „Arabische Frühling“, wurden vermehrt in der akademischen Welt diskutiert. In diesem Kapitel wird gezeigt, wie die Wissenschaft mit dem Thema soziale Medien in Konfliktsituationen (mit Fokus auf den Nahen Osten) umgeht.

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  address = {Wiesbaden},
  title = {Soziale {Medien} in politischen {Konfliktsituationen} mit {Fokus} auf den arabischen {Frühling}},
  isbn = {978-3-658-32795-8},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32795-8_29},
  abstract = {Die Umwälzungen im Nahen Osten, der sogenannte „Arabische Frühling“, wurden vermehrt in der akademischen Welt diskutiert. In diesem Kapitel wird gezeigt, wie die Wissenschaft mit dem Thema soziale Medien in Konfliktsituationen (mit Fokus auf den Nahen Osten) umgeht.},
  language = {de},
  urldate = {2021-05-25},
  booktitle = {Sicherheitskritische {Mensch}-{Computer}-{Interaktion}: {Interaktive} {Technologien} und {Soziale} {Medien} im {Krisen}- und {Sicherheitsmanagement}},
  publisher = {Springer Fachmedien},
  author = {Aal, Konstantin and Weibert, Anne and Ahmadi, Michael and Rohde, Markus and Wulf, Volker},
  editor = {Reuter, Christian},
  year = {2021},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-658-32795-8_29},
  pages = {631--652},
  }

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  Marsden, N., Ahmadi, M., Wulf, V. & Holtzblatt, K. (2021)Surfacing Challenges in Scrum for Women in Tech

  IN IEEE Software, Pages: 0–0 doi:10.1109/MS.2021.3115461
  [BibTeX] [Abstract]

  Scrum, the most popular form of agile, is often cited for creating a positive working environment for women. Its values, principles, roles, and practices are said to hold great potential to promote fairness and gender equality. But does it? Social scientific literature has identified two key dimensions to analyze processes. The first dimension examines whether practices, behaviors, values, and attitudes are explicit or implicit. The second dimension separates the team experience from the individual experience. Using these dimensions to inform thinking about gender issues in processes and our data from women working on Scrum teams, we developed an analysis framework to surface gender issues in Scrum. We share what works and doesn’t work for women in Scrum and where improvements can be made.

  @article{marsden_surfacing_2021,
  title = {Surfacing {Challenges} in {Scrum} for {Women} in {Tech}},
  issn = {1937-4194},
  doi = {10.1109/MS.2021.3115461},
  abstract = {Scrum, the most popular form of agile, is often cited for creating a positive working environment for women. Its values, principles, roles, and practices are said to hold great potential to promote fairness and gender equality. But does it? Social scientific literature has identified two key dimensions to analyze processes. The first dimension examines whether practices, behaviors, values, and attitudes are explicit or implicit. The second dimension separates the team experience from the individual experience. Using these dimensions to inform thinking about gender issues in processes and our data from women working on Scrum teams, we developed an analysis framework to surface gender issues in Scrum. We share what works and doesn’t work for women in Scrum and where improvements can be made.},
  journal = {IEEE Software},
  author = {Marsden, Nicola and Ahmadi, Michael and Wulf, Volker and Holtzblatt, Karen},
  year = {2021},
  note = {Conference Name: IEEE Software},
  keywords = {gender, agile, Companies, diversity programs, equality, fairness, Gender issues, organizational change, Planning, Reflection, Scrum, Scrum (Software development), Software, Task analysis, workplace culture},
  pages = {0--0},
  }

2020

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  Ahmadi, M., Eilert, R., Weibert, A., Wulf, V. & Marsden, N. (2020)Feminist Living Labs as Research Infrastructures for HCI: The Case of a Video Game Company

  Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA, Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery, Pages: 1–15 doi:10.1145/3313831.3376716
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  The number of women in IT is still low and companies struggle to integrate female professionals. The aim of our research is to provide methodological support for understanding and sharing experiences of gendered practices in the IT industry and encouraging sustained reflection about these matters over time. We established a Living Lab with that end in view, aiming to enhance female participation in the IT workforce and committing ourselves to a participatory approach to the sharing of women’s experiences. Here, using the case of a German video game company which participated in our Lab, we detail our lessons learned. We show that this kind of long-term participation involves challenges over the lifetime of the project but can lead to substantial benefits for organizations. Our findings demonstrate that Living Labs are suitable for giving voice to marginalized groups, addressing their concerns and evoking change possibilities. Nevertheless, uncertainties about long-term sustainability remain.

  @inproceedings{ahmadi_feminist_2020,
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  series = {{CHI} '20},
  title = {Feminist {Living} {Labs} as {Research} {Infrastructures} for {HCI}: {The} {Case} of a {Video} {Game} {Company}},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-6708-0},
  shorttitle = {Feminist {Living} {Labs} as {Research} {Infrastructures} for {HCI}},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376716},
  doi = {10.1145/3313831.3376716},
  abstract = {The number of women in IT is still low and companies struggle to integrate female professionals. The aim of our research is to provide methodological support for understanding and sharing experiences of gendered practices in the IT industry and encouraging sustained reflection about these matters over time. We established a Living Lab with that end in view, aiming to enhance female participation in the IT workforce and committing ourselves to a participatory approach to the sharing of women's experiences. Here, using the case of a German video game company which participated in our Lab, we detail our lessons learned. We show that this kind of long-term participation involves challenges over the lifetime of the project but can lead to substantial benefits for organizations. Our findings demonstrate that Living Labs are suitable for giving voice to marginalized groups, addressing their concerns and evoking change possibilities. Nevertheless, uncertainties about long-term sustainability remain.},
  urldate = {2021-04-15},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2020 {CHI} {Conference} on {Human} {Factors} in {Computing} {Systems}},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  author = {Ahmadi, Michael and Eilert, Rebecca and Weibert, Anne and Wulf, Volker and Marsden, Nicola},
  month = apr,
  year = {2020},
  keywords = {methodology, living lab, ethnography, gender, feminist HCI, feminist research, participatory action research, a-paper},
  pages = {1--15},
  }

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  Ahmadi, M., Eilert, R., Weibert, A., Wulf, V. & Marsden, N. (2020)„We want to push the industry via communication“… Designing Communication Measures to Foster Gender Diversity in a Video Game Company

  IN Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 4, Pages: 16:1–16:26 doi:10.1145/3375196
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  Participation of women in IT is still low and companies wonder which external communication measures are necessary to attract more female personnel. To gain a richer understanding of adequate gender sensitive ways of communicating towards girls and women, one needs to take into account contextual challenges. Following a Participatory Action Research approach, we conducted a qualitative field study in a video game company in a large city in Germany, identified areas of concern, and sketched out implications for gender-sensitive communication measures together with our participants. Findings show that addressing gender stereotypes, making role models visible, and using adequate channels is relevant. Some problems might be solved via short-term solutions, but the majority require a long-term perspective. Our lessons learned leave implications for companies in the IT sector who want to foster gender sensitive external communication measures and can contribute to the realization of more gender balanced working environments.

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  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3375196},
  doi = {10.1145/3375196},
  abstract = {Participation of women in IT is still low and companies wonder which external communication measures are necessary to attract more female personnel. To gain a richer understanding of adequate gender sensitive ways of communicating towards girls and women, one needs to take into account contextual challenges. Following a Participatory Action Research approach, we conducted a qualitative field study in a video game company in a large city in Germany, identified areas of concern, and sketched out implications for gender-sensitive communication measures together with our participants. Findings show that addressing gender stereotypes, making role models visible, and using adequate channels is relevant. Some problems might be solved via short-term solutions, but the majority require a long-term perspective. Our lessons learned leave implications for companies in the IT sector who want to foster gender sensitive external communication measures and can contribute to the realization of more gender balanced working environments.},
  number = {GROUP},
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  journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction},
  author = {Ahmadi, Michael and Eilert, Rebecca and Weibert, Anne and Wulf, Volker and Marsden, Nicola},
  month = jan,
  year = {2020},
  keywords = {qualitative research, living lab, employer branding, external communication, gender, video game industry, talent acquisition},
  pages = {16:1--16:26},
  }

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  Ahmadi, M., Herling, C., Wulf, V. & Marsden, N. (2020)Living Labs als feministische Forschungsinfrastrukturen: Lessons Learned eines dreijährigen Gender-Projekts

  Mensch und Computer 2020-Workshopband., Pages: 3
  [BibTeX] [Abstract]

  In diesem Positionspapier berichten wir von unseren Erfahrungen eines feministischen Living-Lab-Projekts.

  @inproceedings{ahmadi_living_2020,
  title = {Living {Labs} als feministische {Forschungsinfrastrukturen}: {Lessons} {Learned} eines dreijährigen {Gender}-{Projekts}},
  abstract = {In diesem Positionspapier berichten wir von unseren Erfahrungen eines feministischen Living-Lab-Projekts.},
  language = {de},
  booktitle = {Mensch und {Computer} 2020-{Workshopband}},
  author = {Ahmadi, Michael and Herling, Claudia and Wulf, Volker and Marsden, Nicola},
  year = {2020},
  pages = {3},
  }

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  Weibert, A., Aal, K., Krüger, M., Ahmadi, M., Stevens, G. & Wulf, V. (2020)COMPUTATIONAL MAKING WITH, Designing Constructionist Futures: The Art, Theory, and Practice of Learning Designs

  IN Designing Constructionist Futures: The Art, Theory, and Practice of Learning Designs
  [BibTeX]

  @incollection{weibert_computational_2020,
  title = {{COMPUTATIONAL} {MAKING} {WITH}, {Designing} {Constructionist} {Futures}: {The} {Art}, {Theory}, and {Practice} of {Learning} {Designs}},
  isbn = {978-0-262-53984-5},
  language = {en},
  booktitle = {Designing {Constructionist} {Futures}: {The} {Art}, {Theory}, and {Practice} of {Learning} {Designs}},
  publisher = {MIT Press},
  author = {Weibert, Anne and Aal, Konstantin and Krüger, Maximilian and Ahmadi, Michael and Stevens, Gunnar and Wulf, Volker},
  year = {2020},
  note = {Google-Books-ID: ehUAEAAAQBAJ},
  pages = {185--191},
  }

2019

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  Taugerbeck, S., Ahmadi, M., Schorch, M., Unbehaun, D., Aal, K. & Wulf, V. (2019)Digital Participation in Prison – A Public Discourse Analysis of the Use of ICT by Inmates

  IN Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 3, Pages: 233:1–233:26 doi:10.1145/3361114
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  Digital participation has become an important issue in modern societies, typically focusing on groups prone to marginalization. From this perspective, less attention has yet been paid to imprisoned persons. Many penitentiary systems are formally characterized by the basic requirement of resocialization. Accordingly, life in prison should be largely adapted to conditions outside and to fundamental social changes, which must be considered in designing the framework for prison systems. Still, the digital opening of the prison is debated controversially, not least due to anticipated security issues. Hence, to raise awareness about challenges for digital participation of prisoners, we conducted a knowledge-sociological analysis (SKAD) of the public discourse on the use of ICT by prison inmates in Germany. We thereby seek to advance knowledge and insights from social and organizational practice arising from the use of ICT in context of total institutions and create the basis for action from a socio-informatics perspective.

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  title = {Digital {Participation} in {Prison} - {A} {Public} {Discourse} {Analysis} of the {Use} of {ICT} by {Inmates}},
  volume = {3},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3361114},
  doi = {10.1145/3361114},
  abstract = {Digital participation has become an important issue in modern societies, typically focusing on groups prone to marginalization. From this perspective, less attention has yet been paid to imprisoned persons. Many penitentiary systems are formally characterized by the basic requirement of resocialization. Accordingly, life in prison should be largely adapted to conditions outside and to fundamental social changes, which must be considered in designing the framework for prison systems. Still, the digital opening of the prison is debated controversially, not least due to anticipated security issues. Hence, to raise awareness about challenges for digital participation of prisoners, we conducted a knowledge-sociological analysis (SKAD) of the public discourse on the use of ICT by prison inmates in Germany. We thereby seek to advance knowledge and insights from social and organizational practice arising from the use of ICT in context of total institutions and create the basis for action from a socio-informatics perspective.},
  number = {GROUP},
  urldate = {2021-04-16},
  journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction},
  author = {Taugerbeck, Sebastian and Ahmadi, Michael and Schorch, Marén and Unbehaun, David and Aal, Konstantin and Wulf, Volker},
  month = dec,
  year = {2019},
  keywords = {digital participation, prisoners, critical hci, discourse analysis, hci for development, qualitative methods},
  pages = {233:1--233:26},
  }

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  Ahmadi, M., Weibert, A., Wenzelmann, V., Aal, K., Gäckle, K., Wulf, V. & Marsden, N. (2019)Designing for Openness in Making: Lessons Learned from a Digital Project Week

  Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies – Transforming Communities. New York, NY, USA, Publisher: ACM, Pages: 160–171 doi:10.1145/3328320.3328376
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  @inproceedings{ahmadi_designing_2019,
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  series = {C\&\#38;{T} '19},
  title = {Designing for {Openness} in {Making}: {Lessons} {Learned} from a {Digital} {Project} {Week}},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-7162-9},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3328320.3328376},
  doi = {10.1145/3328320.3328376},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th {International} {Conference} on {Communities} \& {Technologies} - {Transforming} {Communities}},
  publisher = {ACM},
  author = {Ahmadi, Michael and Weibert, Anne and Wenzelmann, Victoria and Aal, Konstantin and Gäckle, Kristian and Wulf, Volker and Marsden, Nicola},
  year = {2019},
  keywords = {FabLab, Community, Diversity, DIY, Gender, Hacking, Maker Culture, Makerspace, Making, Openness},
  pages = {160--171},
  }

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  Rohde, M., Marsden, N., Raudonat, K., Hauptmeier, H. & Ahmadi, M. (2019)Because Nothing is More Normal Than Diversity: Implementing Diversity in HCI Education

  Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies – Transforming Communities. New York, NY, USA, Publisher: ACM, Pages: 343–348 doi:10.1145/3328320.3328409
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  @inproceedings{rohde_because_2019,
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  series = {C\&\#38;{T} '19},
  title = {Because {Nothing} is {More} {Normal} {Than} {Diversity}: {Implementing} {Diversity} in {HCI} {Education}},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-7162-9},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3328320.3328409},
  doi = {10.1145/3328320.3328409},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th {International} {Conference} on {Communities} \& {Technologies} - {Transforming} {Communities}},
  publisher = {ACM},
  author = {Rohde, Markus and Marsden, Nicola and Raudonat, Kerstin and Hauptmeier, Helmut and Ahmadi, Michael},
  year = {2019},
  keywords = {curriculum, diversity, education, Inclusion, lecturing, openness},
  pages = {343--348},
  }

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  Raudonat, K., Gäckle, K., Ahmadi, M., Weibert, A., Wulf, V. & Marsden, N. (2019)Living Labs zu Gender und IT im Kontext von Exklusionsdynamiken und Maßnahmen zur Förderung von Gender- und Diversitätssensibilität

  IN Angenent, H., Heidkamp, B. & Kergel, D. (Eds.), Digital Diversity: Bildung und Lernen im Kontext gesellschaftlicher Transformationen Wiesbaden doi:10.1007/978-3-658-26753-7_19
  [BibTeX] [Abstract] [Download PDF]

  Im Kontext IT, Digitalisierung und Diversität stehen (nicht nur) IT-Unternehmen vor vielfältigen Fragen und Herausforderungen. Gefordert sind gendertheoretisch informierte Diskurse sowie gender- und diversitätssensible Maßnahmen, die sich in der beruflichen Praxis umsetzen lassen. Hierfür muss wissenschaftliches Geschlechterwissen in einem Dialog zwischen Unternehmen und Wissenschaft weiterentwickelt, aufbereitet und für die praktische Umsetzung handhabbar gemacht werden. Genau dies ist das Ziel des GEWINN-Projekts und des in diesem Rahmen aufgebauten Living Labs im Gender und IT Kontext.

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  address = {Wiesbaden},
  title = {Living {Labs} zu {Gender} und {IT} im {Kontext} von {Exklusionsdynamiken} und {Maßnahmen} zur {Förderung} von {Gender}- und {Diversitätssensibilität}},
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  abstract = {Im Kontext IT, Digitalisierung und Diversität stehen (nicht nur) IT-Unternehmen vor vielfältigen Fragen und Herausforderungen. Gefordert sind gendertheoretisch informierte Diskurse sowie gender- und diversitätssensible Maßnahmen, die sich in der beruflichen Praxis umsetzen lassen. Hierfür muss wissenschaftliches Geschlechterwissen in einem Dialog zwischen Unternehmen und Wissenschaft weiterentwickelt, aufbereitet und für die praktische Umsetzung handhabbar gemacht werden. Genau dies ist das Ziel des GEWINN-Projekts und des in diesem Rahmen aufgebauten Living Labs im Gender und IT Kontext.},
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  editor = {Angenent, Holger and Heidkamp, Birte and Kergel, David},
  year = {2019},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-658-26753-7_19},
  pages = {303--319},
  }

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  Ahmadi, M., Weibert, A., Wenzelmann, V., Ertl, T., Randall, D., Tolmie, P., Wulf, V. & Marsden, N. (2019)Gender Factors and Feminist Values in Living Labs

  IN Loh, J. & Coeckelbergh, M. (Eds.), Feminist Philosophy of Technology Stuttgart doi:10.1007/978-3-476-04967-4_9
  [BibTeX] [Abstract] [Download PDF]

  In this paper, we describe the feminist perspectives that have informed design in the HCI community, and develop an argument for an approach that translates these broad commitments into a pragmatic design space, drawing on emancipatory agendas such as participatory design. As designers of technologies, we regard creating research infrastructures that offer safe spaces for the development of user-centered artifacts based on diverse and critical perspectives as not only a utopian vision, but as a practical contribution to a more equal society. Shaowen Bardzell stresses this point when she states that in envisioning utopias, we are “seeking not so much to predict the future, but rather to imagine a radically better one”. Recognizing that technology shapes social life and amplifies social practices both good and bad, research in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) increasingly focuses on how technology has been developed in the past, and how constructive futures may be envisaged. More and more, academics are inviting multidisciplinarity and embracing ethnographic methods as part of the design of networks and technical artifacts, realizing that innovation cannot be user-centered if designers employ a bird’s-eye perspective. This leads to an approach that advocates designing socially embedded technologies in real world environments. Thus, for some time now, collaboration and participatory design approaches have provided a means for enacting positive social and technological change. If we agree that “those who design technologies are […] designing society”, new questions arise in terms of responsibility for the future shape of the world: How do we design technologies to design a better society for people of all genders?

  @incollection{ahmadi_gender_2019,
  address = {Stuttgart},
  series = {Techno:{Phil} – {Aktuelle} {Herausforderungen} der {Technikphilosophie}},
  title = {Gender {Factors} and {Feminist} {Values} in {Living} {Labs}},
  isbn = {978-3-476-04967-4},
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  editor = {Loh, Janina and Coeckelbergh, Mark},
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  pages = {167--183},
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  Ahmadi, M., Eilert, R., Weibert, A., Wulf, V. & Marsden, N. (2019)Hacking Masculine Cultures – Career Ambitions of Female Young Professionals in a Video Game Company \textbar Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

  Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play., Pages: 413–426
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  @inproceedings{ahmadi_hacking_2019,
  title = {Hacking {Masculine} {Cultures} - {Career} {Ambitions} of {Female} {Young} {Professionals} in a {Video} {Game} {Company} {\textbar} {Proceedings} of the {Annual} {Symposium} on {Computer}-{Human} {Interaction} in {Play}},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3311350.3347186},
  urldate = {2021-04-16},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Annual} {Symposium} on {Computer}-{Human} {Interaction} in {Play}},
  author = {Ahmadi, Michael and Eilert, Rebecca and Weibert, Anne and Wulf, Volker and Marsden, Nicola},
  year = {2019},
  pages = {413--426},
  }

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  Ahmadi, M., Herling, C., Wulf, V. & Marsden, N. (2019)Living Labs als feministische Forschungsinfrastrukturen: Fallstudie eines Reallabors

  doi:10.18420/MUC2019-WS-626
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  In diesem Positionspapier diskutieren wir den partizipativen Ansatz der Living Labs anhand eines Fallbeispiels als eine Möglichkeit, feministische Werte in der Forschung zu adressieren.

  @article{ahmadi_living_2019,
  title = {Living {Labs} als feministische {Forschungsinfrastrukturen}: {Fallstudie} eines {Reallabors}},
  shorttitle = {Living {Labs} als feministische {Forschungsinfrastrukturen}},
  url = {http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/25242},
  doi = {10.18420/MUC2019-WS-626},
  abstract = {In diesem Positionspapier diskutieren wir den partizipativen Ansatz der Living Labs anhand eines Fallbeispiels als eine Möglichkeit, feministische Werte in der Forschung zu adressieren.},
  language = {de},
  urldate = {2021-04-16},
  author = {Ahmadi, Michael and Herling, Claudia and Wulf, Volker and Marsden, Nicola},
  year = {2019},
  note = {Publisher: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.},
  keywords = {Living Lab, Gender and IT, Participatory Action Research, Qualitative Research, Women in Computing},
  }

2018

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  Ahmadi, M., Weibert, A., Ogonowski, C., Aal, K., Gäckle, K., Marsden, N. & Wulf, V. (2018)Challenges and lessons learned by applying living labs in gender and IT contexts

  Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Gender & IT. New York, NY, USA, Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery, Pages: 239–249 doi:10.1145/3196839.3196878
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  Women interested in computing are still facing several problems considering equality and career chances. Companies realize the opportunities of diversity and yet for several reasons they are struggling to hire or integrate young female professionals. Although gender study research provides promising frameworks there are still issues in applying them in working environments and practices. For this purpose, we made use of the Living Lab approach in the context of gender and IT. The Living Lab’s methodology offers opportunities to reveal new, relevant insights and create social change in a collaborative way. We stretched the existing understanding of this concept and follow a Participatory Action Research approach. In this paper we describe the setup of the Living Lab and present first insights from our research. We found that showing patience, organizing adequate spaces for reflection as well as facilitating motivation and trust is vital in such a sensitive research context.

  @inproceedings{ahmadi_challenges_2018-1,
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  series = {{GenderIT} '18},
  title = {Challenges and lessons learned by applying living labs in gender and {IT} contexts},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-5346-5},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3196839.3196878},
  doi = {10.1145/3196839.3196878},
  abstract = {Women interested in computing are still facing several problems considering equality and career chances. Companies realize the opportunities of diversity and yet for several reasons they are struggling to hire or integrate young female professionals. Although gender study research provides promising frameworks there are still issues in applying them in working environments and practices. For this purpose, we made use of the Living Lab approach in the context of gender and IT. The Living Lab's methodology offers opportunities to reveal new, relevant insights and create social change in a collaborative way. We stretched the existing understanding of this concept and follow a Participatory Action Research approach. In this paper we describe the setup of the Living Lab and present first insights from our research. We found that showing patience, organizing adequate spaces for reflection as well as facilitating motivation and trust is vital in such a sensitive research context.},
  urldate = {2021-04-16},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th {Conference} on {Gender} \& {IT}},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  author = {Ahmadi, Michael and Weibert, Anne and Ogonowski, Corinna and Aal, Konstantin and Gäckle, Kristian and Marsden, Nicola and Wulf, Volker},
  month = may,
  year = {2018},
  keywords = {methodology, qualitative research, living lab, participatory action research, gender and IT, women in computing},
  pages = {239--249},
  }

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  Ahmadi, M. (2018)Strengthening the Role of Female Young Professionals in IT-Organizations by Using a PAR Approach in Gender Studies

  Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork. New York, NY, USA, Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery, Pages: 369–372 doi:10.1145/3148330.3152696
  [BibTeX] [Abstract] [Download PDF]

  Women interested in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), especially information technology (IT), are still facing several problems considering equality and career chances. Companies realize the opportunities of diversity and yet for several reasons they are struggling to hire or integrate female young professionals. Although gender study research provides promising frameworks there are still issues of making those usable in practical environments. Thus, there does exist a gap between science and practice – A gap which our project aims to close by promoting the transfer of knowledge between gender studies and IT practice. Therefore, we collaborate with IT-organizations over a timespan of three years using a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach. This approach offers opportunities to reveal new, relevant insights and create social change in a collaborative way. Thus, my PhD thesis deals on the one hand with the results considering specific gender-related topics we gained in the organizations as well as, on the other hand, with an evaluation of our methodology in this specific context.

  @inproceedings{ahmadi_strengthening_2018-1,
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  series = {{GROUP} '18},
  title = {Strengthening the {Role} of {Female} {Young} {Professionals} in {IT}-{Organizations} by {Using} a {PAR} {Approach} in {Gender} {Studies}},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-5562-9},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3148330.3152696},
  doi = {10.1145/3148330.3152696},
  abstract = {Women interested in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), especially information technology (IT), are still facing several problems considering equality and career chances. Companies realize the opportunities of diversity and yet for several reasons they are struggling to hire or integrate female young professionals. Although gender study research provides promising frameworks there are still issues of making those usable in practical environments. Thus, there does exist a gap between science and practice -- A gap which our project aims to close by promoting the transfer of knowledge between gender studies and IT practice. Therefore, we collaborate with IT-organizations over a timespan of three years using a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach. This approach offers opportunities to reveal new, relevant insights and create social change in a collaborative way. Thus, my PhD thesis deals on the one hand with the results considering specific gender-related topics we gained in the organizations as well as, on the other hand, with an evaluation of our methodology in this specific context.},
  urldate = {2021-04-16},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 {ACM} {Conference} on {Supporting} {Groupwork}},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  author = {Ahmadi, Michael},
  month = jan,
  year = {2018},
  keywords = {methodology, qualitative research, thesis, hci, gender, feminism, feminist hci, gender and it},
  pages = {369--372},
  }

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  Ahmadi, M., Weibert, A., Ogonowski, C., Aal, K., Gäckle, K., Marsden, N. & Wulf, V. (2018)Challenges and lessons learned by applying living labs in gender and \IT\ contexts

  Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Gender & \IT\ – \GenderIT\ \\${\textbackslash}textbackslashbackslash\$textquotesingle\18., Publisher: \ACM\ Press doi:10.1145/3196839.3196878
  [BibTeX] [Download PDF]

  @inproceedings{ahmadi_challenges_2018,
  title = {Challenges and lessons learned by applying living labs in gender and \{{IT}\} contexts},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3196839.3196878},
  doi = {10.1145/3196839.3196878},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th {Conference} on {Gender} \& \{{IT}\} - \{{GenderIT}\} \{\${\textbackslash}textbackslashbackslash\$textquotesingle\}18},
  publisher = {\{ACM\} Press},
  author = {Ahmadi, Michael and Weibert, Anne and Ogonowski, Corinna and Aal, Konstantin and Gäckle, Kristian and Marsden, Nicola and Wulf, Volker},
  year = {2018},
  keywords = {PRAXLABS},
  }

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  Ahmadi, M. (2018)Strengthening the Role of Female Young Professionals in \IT\-Organizations by Using a \PAR\ Approach in Gender Studies

  Proceedings of the 2018 \ACM\ Conference on Supporting Groupwork – \GROUP\ \\${\textbackslash}textbackslashbackslash\$textquotesingle\18., Publisher: \ACM\ Press doi:10.1145/3148330.3152696
  [BibTeX] [Download PDF]

  @inproceedings{ahmadi_strengthening_2018,
  title = {Strengthening the {Role} of {Female} {Young} {Professionals} in \{{IT}\}-{Organizations} by {Using} a \{{PAR}\} {Approach} in {Gender} {Studies}},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3148330.3152696},
  doi = {10.1145/3148330.3152696},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 \{{ACM}\} {Conference} on {Supporting} {Groupwork} - \{{GROUP}\} \{\${\textbackslash}textbackslashbackslash\$textquotesingle\}18},
  publisher = {\{ACM\} Press},
  author = {Ahmadi, Michael},
  year = {2018},
  }

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  Aal, K., Weibert, A., Ahmadi, M., Rohde, M. & Wulf, V. (2018)Soziale Medien in politischen Konfliktsituationen

  IN Reuter, C. (Ed.), Sicherheitskritische Mensch-Computer-Interaktion doi:10.1007/978-3-658-19523-6_29
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  @incollection{aal_soziale_2018,
  title = {Soziale {Medien} in politischen {Konfliktsituationen}},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19523-6_29},
  booktitle = {Sicherheitskritische {Mensch}-{Computer}-{Interaktion}},
  publisher = {Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden},
  author = {Aal, Konstantin and Weibert, Anne and Ahmadi, Michael and Rohde, Markus and Wulf, Volker},
  editor = {Reuter, Christian},
  year = {2018},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-658-19523-6_29},
  pages = {597--618},
  }