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Madeleine Steeds

Madeleine Steeds

They/She/He

School of Information and Communication Studies

Assistant Professor

madeleine.steeds@ucd.ie

https://people.ucd.ie/madeleine.steeds/

Research Areas

The intersection of Psychology and HCI

Cyberpsychology

wHAT INSPIRES MY RESEARCH

I pursue the projects that I have fun doing and I hope that in some way they will help people, or at least people will find them fun too!

My work focuses on the intersection of psychology and human-computer interaction. My focus includes memory, social dynamics and self presentation online. I love working on projects that I find fun or cute! Recently I have been researching queer joy and I hope to keep working on joyful projects in the future.

Takao Fujii, Katie Seaborn, Madeleine Steeds, and Jun Kato. 2025. Inter(sectional) Alia(s): Ambiguity in Voice Agent Identity via Intersectional Japanese Self-Referents. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 572, 1–18.

Madeleine Steeds, Sarah Clinch, Carolina Are, Genavee Brown, Ben Dalton, Lexi Webster, Alice Wilson, and Dawn Woolley. 2025. Queer Joy on Social Media: Exploring the Expression and Facilitation of Queer Joy in Online Platforms. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 954, 1–19.

featured publications

Queer Joy as a Digital Good

This project foregrounds queer joy as a practice of personal and collective resilience amidst a socio-political landscape of increasing queerphobia, arguing that queer joy in online spaces is a digital good for users, platforms and policy. In so doing, the project will centre queer users, their knowledge, and their experience.

featured projects

Co-Principal Investigator

Queer Joy as a Digital Good grant from The ESRC Digital Good Network, funded by UKRI.

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