Pursuing genius loci: interaction design and natural places

Bidwell, Nicola J.; Browning, David

doi:10.1007/s00779-009-0217-8

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“…In designing technologies for collaboration, a key consideration and priority is the immediacy to which tools and technologies align to the motivations of a volunteer. This consideration suggests that technology design should be "natural" to the gardening group, which is also suggested in Bidwell and Browning's work [2]. With this in mind, it is not the technologies that are important, rather it is the proximity of the use of the technologies to the motivations that are important.…”

Section: Volunteerismmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Bidwell and Browning [2] suggested that technology design in natural places should remain 'natural'; be sensitive to community identity, values and practices; and, not take away people's sense of self-discovery. Heitlinger et al [11] proposed a set of issues that designers should consider when applying ubiquitous computing designs in urban community farm.…”

Section: Hci Interaction Design and Community Gardensmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Information sharing, scheduling, and awareness in community gardening collaboration

Wang

Wakkary

Neustaedter

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Communities and Technologies

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Community gardens are places where people, as a collaborative group, grow food for themselves and for others. There is a lack of studies in HCI regarding collaboration in community gardens and considering technologies to support such collaborations. This paper reports on a detailed study of collaboration in community gardens in Greater Vancouver, Canada. The goal of our study is to uncover the unique nature of such collaborative acts. As one might expect, we found considerable differences between community gardening collaboration and workplace collaboration. The contribution is the articulation of key considerations for designing technologies for community gardening collaboration. These include design considerations like volunteerism, competences and inclusion, synchronicity, and telepresence as unique aspects of community collaboration in community garden. We also articulate the complexities of community gardening collaboration, which raise issues like control, shared language, and collective ownership that exist more as conditions within which to design than "problems" to solve through technologies.

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Section: Volunteerismmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Hci Interaction Design and Community Gardensmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information sharing, scheduling, and awareness in community gardening collaboration

Wang

Wakkary

Neustaedter

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Communities and Technologies

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“…With few exceptions [Dillahunt et al 2009;Brynjarsdóttir and Sengers 2009;Bidwell and Browning 2010;Wyche and Murphy 2012] discussion of sustainability in HCI neglects the 50% of the world that live on less than $2.50 a day and the 70% of the "developing" world's poor who live rurally [World Bank 2010]. In this article we expand this discussion by considering practices in a society where custom and constraints involve sharing few resources by Western norms.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Walking and the social life of solar charging in rural africa

Bidwell

Siya

Marsden

et al. 2013

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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We consider practices that sustain social and physical environments beyond those dominating sustainable HCI discourse. We describe links between walking, sociality, and using resources in a case study of community-based, solar, cellphone charging in villages in South Africa's Eastern Cape. Like 360 million rural Africans, inhabitants of these villages are poor and, like 25% and 92% of the world, respectively, do not have domestic electricity or own motor vehicles. We describe nine practices in using the charging stations we deployed. We recorded 700 people using the stations, over a year, some regularly. We suggest that the way we frame practices limits insights about them, and consider various routines in using and sharing local resources to discover relations that might also feature in charging. Specifically, walking interconnects routines in using, storing, sharing and sustaining resources, and contributes to knowing, feeling, wanting and avoiding as well as to different aspects of sociality, social order and perspectives on sustainability. Along the way, bodies acquire literacies that make certain relationalities legible. Our study shows we cannot assert what sustainable practice means a priori and, further, that detaching practices from bodies and their paths limits solutions, at least in rural Africa. Thus, we advocate a more “alongly” integrated approach to data about practices.

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“…Hui [2012] explains how material objects, such as phones, are mutable and their use is inseparable from the work of moving them; so, even when we temporarily adapt to constraints on electricity we do so with bodies fashioned by, and carrying, our more habitual practices of using phones and producing knowledge for HCI. Moving an urbanized or Westernized body along at a rural African pace may expose qualities obscured, but pertinent, to life in the West, but also eclipses meanings that inhabitants embody [Bidwell and Browning 2010]. For instance, a walking pace of life might offer relief to a body burned-out from business [Sengers 2011] until that same body must walk two hours to reach the nearest clinic, as Mankosi inhabitants do.…”

Section: Legible Relationalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%