Empowered Participation

Erete, Sheena; Burrell, Jennifer O.

doi:10.1145/3025453.3025996

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“…For instance, Gugenheimer et al (2017) noted that "prior work showed that this physical interaction can potentially increase enjoyment, social interaction and has cognitive benefits" (p. 4022) but proceed to inform their design process in other, nontheoretical ways. This is similar to other drivers of key decisions about design such as iterative design (Kazemitabaar et al, 2017;Tolmie et al, 2017;Ur et al, 2017), ethnography (Erete & Burrell, 2017;Tolmie et al, 2017), observations and interviews (Webber et al, 2017), and contextual design (Webber et al, 2017), and surveying users (Gugenheimer et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 55%

Counterfactual Thinking: What Theories Do in Design

Oulasvirta

Hornbæk

2021

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

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This essay addresses a foundational topic in applied sciences with interest in design: how do theories inform design? Previous work has attributed theory-use to abduction and deduction. However, design is about creating an intervention, a possible state that does not exist presently, and these accounts fail to explain how theories permit taking this leap. We argue that the practical value of a theory lies in counterfactual thinking. Theories are like "speculation pumps": they produce (pump) counterfactual thought experiments of the type: If design was , then interaction would be . The more valid these thought experiments are and the better they direct the solution of design problems toward desirable and reliable outcomes, the more useful the theory. Counterfactual thinking sheds new light to design methods and, importantly, can reconcile an underlying tension between design sciences and applied sciences.

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Section: Lack Of Counterfactual Reasoning In Chi Papersmentioning

confidence: 55%

Counterfactual Thinking: What Theories Do in Design

Oulasvirta

Hornbæk

2021

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

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“…is shi of focus in PD is timely, as racist practices in urban policy and planning shape the character of communities [13,15,29] and these e ects are largely unaccounted for in theorizing of PD Without a handle on race, PD risks compounding racist legacies under the title of design. For example, Erete and Burrell studied technology use as a means of mobilization over a three-year period in a low-income Chicago neighborhood and found that technolog on its own could not increase neighborhood members' political voice in local governance [37]. Crooks drew similar conclusions af ter working with a low-income neighborhood in South Los Angeles [32].…”

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“…We also build on a body of design and HCI scholarship that examines design with excluded communities e.g. [34,37]. Taken together, this literature helps us explore how those who struggle for visibility and voice become recipients of what Sarah Ahmed calls a "liberal promise" of inclusion [9], a phrase she uses to acknowledge the procedures of liberalism that obscure structural racism.…”

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Who Gets to Future?

O'Leary

Zewde²,

Mankoff

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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is paper draws on a collaborative project called the Africatown Activation to examine the role design practices play in contributing to (or conspiring against) the ourishing of the Black community in Sea le, Washington. Speci cally, we describe the e orts of a community group called Africatown to design and build an installation that counters decades of disinvestment and ongoing displacement in the historically Black Central Area neighborhood. Our analysis suggests that despite e orts to include community, conventional design practices may perpetuate forms of institutional racism: enabling activities of community engagement that may further legitimate racialized forms of displacement. We discuss how focusing on amplifying the legacies of imagination already at work may help us move beyond a simple reading of design as the solution to systemic forms of oppression.

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“…Here, this work builds on the rich body of work on Participatory Design (PD) in public sector innovation in local governments (e.g. [5,29]), socially relevant HCI research through Action Research (AR) [41], and the more recent turn towards 'civic technology' in HCI. With these traditions and trends, researchers are increasingly exploring the "design and use of technology to support both formal and informal aspects of government and public services" [6].…”

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confidence: 99%

Food Democracy in the Making

Prost

Crivellaro

Haddon³

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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This paper introduces the concept of 'food democracy' as a theoretical framing for HCI to engage in human-food interaction. Extending existing foci of health and environmental sustainability, food democracy requires thinking through aspects of social and economic justice, and democratic governance as directions for the study and design of technologies for alternative food movements. To exemplify food democracy, we report on field observations and interviews about the opportunities and challenges for supporting the development of local food networks with communities in deprived neighbourhoods using an online direct food marketing platform. Using a food democracy framing, we identify tensions around environmental, social, and economic goals; challenges of local food businesses operating within the existing economic paradigm; and differing perspectives on ownership and governance in the network. We discuss the need for HCI to design for systems change and propose a design space for HCI in supporting food democracy movements.

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Empowered Participation

Cited by 53 publications

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Counterfactual Thinking: What Theories Do in Design

Counterfactual Thinking: What Theories Do in Design

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Food Democracy in the Making

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