We draw together articles reporting on the use of first-person research methods in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). By bringing articles together, our goal is to further deepen the HCI community’s understanding of such practices, to continue building a repertoire of examples, and to trace links between techniques.

While we present our general goal for this special issue, in the spirit of first-person research, we share our unique perspectives for why we were each invested in this issue. We propose three provocations that HCI researchers should attend to while planning, executing, analyzing, and sharing results from first-person methods: working with boundaries, taking risks, and accountability.