Here’s a selection of my academic publications (the ones I currently consider most relevant), sorted by topic and year. For a complete list, visit my Google Scholar Profile, ORCID, or the TU Wien’s ReposiTUm site. Not all of these papers are open access, so you want a pdf file of any of them, just drop me an e-mail and I can send it to you.
Social Media & Queer/Neurodivergent people
Kay Kender and Katta Spiel. 2025. Social Media as Marginalisation Machine: The Trans Desire for Solidarity Spaces. (CHI ’25). https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713136
Kay Kender and Katta Spiel. 2023. Banal Autistic Social Media: A Found Footage Autoethnography. (ASSETS ’23). https://doi.org/10.1145/3597638.3614552
Kay Kender. 2022. Tumblr is Queer and Twitter is Toxic: Speculating About the Vibe of Social Media Spaces. (NordiCHI ’22). https://doi.org/10.1145/3546155.3547279
Kay Kender and Christopher Frauenberger. 2022. The Shape of Social Media: Towards Addressing (Aesthetic) Design Power. (DIS ’22). https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533470
Critical Design & Design Education
Kay Kender and Ekat Osipova. 2025. Found Footage from the Nuclear Protection National Parks. (CHI EA ’25). https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3716211
Burtscher, Sabrina; Kender, Kay; Meissner, Janis; Posch, Irene; Strohmayer, Angelika (2024): Can’t Touch This? Is This Touch? It’s So Fluffy I’m Gonna Die! — Material and Tangible Research Methods in HCI. (MuC 2024) 10.18420/muc2024-mci-ws04-103
Kay Kender and Katta Spiel. 2022. FaceSavr™: Designing Technologies with Allistic Adults to Battle Emotion Echolalia. (CHI EA ’22). https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3516383
Kay Kender and Peter Purgathofer. 2022. Insights for Educational Practice from a Thematic Analysis of Student Experiences with Speculative Design Mini-Projects about Personal Issues. Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A), N.51, 2022, pp. 249 – 269. http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/doc/51_11.pdf
Theory & Methodology
Kay Kender and Ekat Osipova. 2025. Evil Autistic Masterplan for Academia: HCI Edition. (CHI EA ’25). https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3716226
Ekat Osipova, Kay Kender, and Katta Spiel. 2025. Sexy and We Know It: Exploring Sexistemologies for HCI. (CHI EA ’25). https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3716228
Molly O’Reilly-Kime, Yifan Feng, Francesca Cipelli, Ekat Osipova, Kay Kender, Madeleine Steeds, Sarah Clinch, Elisa Rubegni, and Jennifer Rode. 2025. Finding Our Joy: Queer Perspectives on HCI Research. (CHI EA ’25). https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3716221
Anh-Ton Tran, Annabel Rothschild, Kay Kender, Ekat Osipova, Brian Kinnee, Jordan Taylor, Louie Søs Meyer, Oliver L. Haimson, Ann Light, and Carl Disalvo. 2024. Making Trouble: Techniques for Queering Data and AI Systems. (DIS ’24). https://doi.org/10.1145/3656156.3658393
Participatory Design
Robin Angelini, Sabrina Burtscher, Felix Fussenegger, Kay Kender, Katta Spiel, Franz Steinbrecher, and Oliver Suchanek. 2023. Criptopias: Speculative Stories Exploring Worlds Worth Wanting. (CHI EA ’23). https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3582743
Laura Scheepmaker, Tanja Aal, Kay Kender, Stacy Vallis, Konstantin Aal, Nancy Smith, Mark Melenhorst, Anouk Van Twist, Mettina Veenstra, Douglas Schuler, Claudia Müller, Volker Wulf, Anne Weibert, Anne Weibert, Anne Weibert, and Anne Weibert. 2022. Ethical Future Environments: Engaging refugees in Smart City participation. (NordiCHI ’22). https://doi.org/10.1145/3547522.3547704
Gerling, Kathrin; Kender, Kay; Spiel, Katta; Van der Oord, Saskia; Baeyens, Dieter; Depoortere, Arno; Aufheimer, Maria (2022): Reflections on Ableism in Participatory Technology Design. (MuC 2022 Workshopband) 10.18420/muc2022-mci-ws02-224
Laura Scheepmaker, Kay Kender, Christopher Frauenberger, and Geraldine Fitzpatrick. 2021. Leaving the Field: Designing a Socio-Material Toolkit for Teachers to Continue to Design Technology with Children. (CHI ’21). https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445462
Kay Kender, Christopher Frauenberger, Johanna Pichlbauer, and Katharina Werner. 2020. Children as Designers – Recognising divergent creative modes in Participatory Design. (NordiCHI ’20). https://doi.org/10.1145/3419249.3420145