Button Portraits
Embodying Queer History with Interactive Wearable Artifacts
“Button Portraits: Embodying Queer History with Interactive Wearable Artifacts ” is a tangible interactive experience that represents queer history using artifacts from the Gender and Sexuality Collection at Georgia State University. The experience tells the stories of queer activists, Lorraine Fontana and Maria Helena Dolan, who influenced and produced Atlanta’s patchwork of LGBTQ+ organizations from the mid 1970s to the present, using replicas of the activists’ own buttons as vehicles through which to experience their stories.
Publications
- Alexandra Teixeira Riggs, Sylvia Janicki, Noura Howell, Anne Sullivan. 2024. Designing an Archive of Feelings: Queering Tangible Interaction with Button Portraits. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24).
- Alexandra Teixeira Riggs, Noura Howell, Anne Sullivan. 2022. Button Portraits: Embodying Queer History with Interactive Wearable Artifacts. International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS).
