Akbaba Derya, Klein Lauren, Meyer Miriah
IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph. 2025 Jan;31(1):1279-1289. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2024.3456171. Epub 2024 Nov 25.
A growing body of work draws on feminist thinking to challenge assumptions about how people engage with and use visualizations. This work draws on feminist values, driving design and research guidelines that account for the influences of power and neglect. This prior work is largely prescriptive, however, forgoing articulation of how feminist theories of knowledge - or feminist epistemology - can alter research design and outcomes. At the core of our work is an engagement with feminist epistemology, drawing attention to how a new framework for how we know what we know enabled us to overcome intellectual tensions in our research. Specifically, we focus on the theoretical concept of entanglement, central to recent feminist scholarship, and contribute: a history of entanglement in the broader scope of feminist theory; an articulation of the main points of entanglement theory for a visualization context; and a case study of research outcomes as evidence of the potential of feminist epistemology to impact visualization research. This work answers a call in the community to embrace a broader set of theoretical and epistemic foundations and provides a starting point for bringing feminist theories into visualization research.
越来越多的研究借鉴女性主义思想，以挑战人们对可视化的参与和使用方式的假设。这项工作借鉴了女性主义价值观，推动了设计和研究指南，考虑到权力和忽视的影响。然而，先前的这项工作在很大程度上是规范性的，没有阐明女性主义知识理论——即女性主义认识论——如何能够改变研究设计和结果。我们工作的核心是与女性主义认识论相结合，关注一种关于我们如何知道我们所知道的东西的新框架如何使我们能够克服研究中的智力紧张关系。具体而言，我们关注纠缠这一理论概念，它是近期女性主义学术研究的核心，并做出了以下贡献：在更广泛的女性主义理论范围内纠缠的历史；在可视化背景下对纠缠理论要点的阐述；以及作为女性主义认识论影响可视化研究潜力证据的研究成果案例研究。这项工作回应了该领域呼吁采用更广泛的理论和认识论基础的诉求，并为将女性主义理论引入可视化研究提供了一个起点。
