Research

My research interests are kind of all-over-the-place. Historically, my work has spanned everything from user participation in peer production systems, to the politics of algorithmic systems, to the politics of ethical theories and frameworks applied to those systems. I can be found on ORCID and Google Scholar.

Previous publications include:

Full-length papers

• Flaxman, A. and Keyes, O. “The risk of linked census data to transgender youth: a simulation study”. Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.
• Keyes, O. & McInerney, K. (2024) “The Infopolitics of Feeling: Race, Disability and Emotion in Artificial Intelligence”. New Media & Society.
• Roblee, C., Keyes, O., Lane, M. and Kuzon, W. (2024) “A History of Gender-Affirming Surgery at the University of Michigan: Lessons for Today”. Seminars in Plastic Surgery.
• Os Keyes and Kathleen A. Creel. 2022. “Artificial Knowing Otherwise.” Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 8 (3/4). Article 12.
• Os Keyes & Jeannie Austin (2022) Feeling fixes: mess and emotion in algorithmic audits, Big Data & Society, DOI: 10.1177/20539517221113772
• Nikki Stevens & Os Keyes (2021) Seeing infrastructure: race, facial recognition and the politics of data, Cultural Studies, DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2021.1895252
• Os Keyes, Zoë Hitzig & Mwenza Blell (2021) Truth from the machine: artificial intelligence and the materialization of identity, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 46:1-2, 158-175, DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2020.1840224
• Os Keyes, Chandler May, and Annabelle Carrell. 2021. You Keep Using That Word: Ways of Thinking about Gender in Computing Research. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 5, CSCW1, Article 39 (April 2021), 23 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3449113
• Cami Rincón, Os Keyes, and Corinne Cath. 2021. Speaking from Experience: Trans/Non-Binary Requirements for Voice-Activated AI. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 5, CSCW1, Article 132 (April 2021), 27 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3449206
• Keyes, O. (2020) Automating Autism: Disability, discourse, and Artificial Intelligence Journal of Sociotechnical Critique, 1.1.
• Keyes, O., Peil, B., Williams, R., Spiel, K. (2020) Reimagining (Women’s) Health: HCI, Gender and Essentialised Embodiment. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 27.4.
• Liang, C., Hutson, J. & Keyes, O. (2020). Surveillance, Stigma and Sociotechnical Design for HIV. First Monday, 25.10.
• Spiel, K., Frauenberger, C., Keyes, O., & Fitzpatrick, G. (2019). Agency of Autistic Children in Technology Research—A Critical Literature Review. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 26(6), 38.
• Keyes, O. & Hoy, J. & Drouhard, M. (2019) Human-Computer Insurrection: Notes on an Anarchist HCI. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2019)
• Keyes, O. (2018) The Misgendering Machines: Trans/HCI Implications of Automatic Gender Recognition. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 2, No. CSCW, Jersey City, NJ
• Kocielnik, R., Keyes, O., Morgan, J., Taraborelli, D., McDonald, D. & Hsieh, G. (2018) Reciprocity and Donation: How Article Topic, Quality and Dwell Time Predict Banner Donation on Wikipedia. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 2, No. CSCW, Jersey City, NJ
• Bollman, S., Cook, D., Dumas, J., Fox, J., Josse, J., Keyes, O., Strobl, C., Turner, H. & Debelak, R. (2017). A First Survey on the Diversity of the R Community. The R Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, 542-552.
• Keyes, O., Jacobs, J. & Rudis, B. (2016). R Packages to Aid in Handling Web Access Logs. The R Journal, 8(1), 360-366.
• Halfaker, A., Keyes, O., Kluver, D., Thebault-Spieker, J. Nguyen, T. & Grandprey-Shores, K. (2015). User Session Identification Based on Strong Regularities in Inter-activity Time. Proceedings from IWWW ’15: The 24th International Conference on the World Wide Web. Florence, Italy; ACM.
• Sen, S., Ford, H., Musicant, D. Graham, M., Keyes, O. & Hecht, B. (2015). Barriers to the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information. Proceedings from CHI ’15: The 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Seol, South Korea. (Honorable Mention)
• Halfaker, A., Keyes, O. & Taraborelli, D. (2013). Making Peripheral Participation Legitimate: Reader Engagement Experiments in Wikipedia. Proceedings from CSCW ’13: The 2013 Conference on Computer-Supported Co-operative Work. San Antonio, TX.

Book Chapters

• Keyes, Os and Cross, Katherine A. (2025) “Data Violence”. In Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, and Tone Walford (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Data and Society*. Sage.

• Keyes, Os. (2023) “Inconclusion: Absent Presences”. In Michael Klipphahn-Karge, Ann-Kathrin Koster, and Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss (Eds.), Queer Reflections on AI: Uncertain Intelligences. Routledge.

• Cath, Corinne and Keyes, Os. (2022). “Your Thoughts for a Penny?”. In Thao Phan, Jake Goldenfein, Declan Kuch, and Monique Mann (Eds.), Economies of Virtue – The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in AI. Institute of Network Cultures.
• Keyes, Os. (2021). “Justice, Change and Technology: On the Limits of Whistleblowing”. In Bazzichelli, T. (Ed.), Whistleblowing for Change: Exposing Systems of Power and Injustice. Transcript Verlag.
• Keyes, Os. “Who Counts? Contact Tracing and the Perils of ‘Privacy’”. In Linnet Taylor, Gargi Sharma, Aaron Martin and Shazade Jameson, eds. Global Data Justice and COVID-19 (2020). London: Meatspace Press
• Keyes, Os. “(mis)gendering”. In Uncertain Archives. The MIT Press, 2021.

Extended Abstracts & Workshops

• Keyes, O. and Dietz, E.A. (2024). Values and Evidence in Gender-Affirming Care Hastings Center Report, 54(3).

• Keyes, O and Arif, A. (2022). Vulnerability, Trust and AI. Paper presented at the 2022 CHI Workshop on Trust and Reliance in AI-Human Teams.

• Keyes, O, Austin, J & Zimmer, M. (2020, October 28-31). Autobiography of an Audit: Tracing the Roots and Repercussions of the HTR-Transgender Database. Paper presented at AoIR 2020: The 201th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Dublin, Ireland: AoIR.

• Ymous, A., Spiel, K,. Keyes, O., Williams, R., Good, J., Hornecker, E. & Bennett, C. (2020). “I am just terrified of my future” - Epistemic Violence in Disability Related Technology Research. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - Extended Abstracts, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2020)

• Bennett, C. & Keyes, O. (2019). What is the Point of Fairness? Disability, AI and The Complexity of Justice. Workshop - AI Fairness for People with Disabilities, 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019)

• Keyes, O., Hutson, J. & Durbin, M. (2019). A Mulching Proposal. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - Extended Abstracts, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2019)

• Spiel, K., Keyes, O. & Barlas, P. (2019). Patching Gender: Non-Binary Utopias in HCI. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - Extended Abstracts, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2019)

• Spiel, K., Keyes, O. & Walker, A., DeVito, M., Birnholtz, J., Bruleé, E., Light, A., Barlas, P., Hardy, J., Ahmed, A., Rode, J., Brubaker, J. & Kannabiran, G. (2019). Queer(ing) HCI: Moving Forward in Theory and Practice. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - Extended Abstracts, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2019)

Essays & Media

• Keyes, O. (2019). The Body Instrumental Logic, Volume 9.
• Keyes, O. (2019). Our Facial Recognition Nightmare Began Decades Ago. Now It’s Expanding. Vice
• Keyes, O. (2019). The Bones We Leave Behind Real Life
• Keyes, O. (2019). The Gardener’s Vision of Data Real Life
• Keyes, O. (2019). Counting the Countless Real Life
• Keyes, O., Stevens, N. & Wernimont, J. (2019). The Government Is Using the Most Vulnerable People to Test Facial Recognition Software Slate