[IAEP] Fwd: [bytesforall_readers] CFP - CHI workshop on Human-Centered Computing in International Development

[Edward Cherlin]

Another event for our calendar. Who wants to write a proposal?


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From: Nithya Sambasivan <nithyas at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:34 PM
Subject: [bytesforall_readers] CFP - CHI workshop on Human-Centered
Computing in International Development
To: bytesforall_readers at yahoogroups.com

CALL FOR PAPERS

Human-Centered Computing in International Development

Workshop at CHI '09 Conference

From Kansas City to Kigali, Information and Communication Technologies
(ICTs) have evolved to reach wider audiences in the past few decades,
resulting in changes in goals, context, and target groups, as well as
ethical contexts. This leads us to ask the critical question of who we
are designing for, how, and why. On the one hand, interactive
applications have permanently affected the field of Human-computer
Interaction, whose concerns were traditionally cognitive. On the other
hand, interactive systems are increasingly taken up in the developing
world, both by richer urban elites and growing middle classes, and by
urban and rural users in more economically marginal areas. These
situations involve very different contexts of use, and demand new
design solutions. In designing for inclusivity, these ICT tools are of
value to the end-user only if they are made relevant. More than ever,
therefore, it is important, to cultivate design practices that allow
for meaningful embedding of interactive systems in the cultural,
infrastructural, and political settings where they will be used.

The goal of the workshop is to exchange success/failure stories,
methodologies, and best practices, to develop new partnerships, and to
learn from each other. The workshop is open to anyone in fields such
as Human-Computer Interaction, International Development, Social
Sciences, Public policy, Computer Science, Education, Economics, and
Healthcare who is interested in contributing to this dialogue.

TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Sustainability: A key tension between research and development
projects is that of developing sustainable projects – when
sustainability generally goes well beyond the scope of typical
research
- Governments, Policies: We are often working in countries that are
not our own, and must deal with foreign governments. Selected
participants will share insights on working with local governments,
importing equipment and securing permission to do research.
- Development Theory: Working towards building a common vocabulary,
workshop participants with grounding in development theory will be
asked to think about what should be considered foundational knowledge
for researchers working on human-centered design for international
development

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Please send a 2-4 page position paper describing one of the following:
* your experience in this area,
* your findings,
* your interest aligned with the above topics,
* methodologies you have used in research or practice that you feel
might be relevant in this area,
* some other appropriate question you might want to discuss at the workshop, or
* a proposal you might have for a collaborative group HCI4D task (i.e.
the website or the joint bibliography), which we could debate at the
workshop.

E-mail position papers to Nithya Sambasivan at nsambasi at ics.uci.edu
Deadline for submissions: 23rd October, 2008
Notification of acceptance is on/around 28th November, 2008.

--
PhD student
Human Computer Interaction | Information and Computer Sciences
University of California, Irvine
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~nsambasi


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