Signal Appropriation of Explicit HIV Status Disclosure Fields in Sex-Social Apps used by Gay and Bisexual Men
Published in Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2010
Recommended citation: Warner, M., Maestre, J. F., Gibbs, J., Chung, C. F., & Blandford, A. (2019, May). Signal appropriation of explicit HIV status disclosure fields in sex-social apps used by gay and bisexual men. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-15). https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10064771/1/CHI19_HIV_Disclosure_as_a_Signalling_System_preprint.pdf
In our interview study (n=28) with HIV positive and negative men who have sex with men (MSM), we found some users preferred to keep their status private, especially when disclosure could stigmatise and disadvantage them, or risk revealing their status to someone they knew offline in a different context.
Recommended citation: Warner, M., Maestre, J. F., Gibbs, J., Chung, C. F., & Blandford, A. (2019, May). Signal appropriation of explicit HIV status disclosure fields in sex-social apps used by gay and bisexual men. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-15).