“There's no rules. It's hackathon.”: Negotiating Commitment in a Context of Volatile Sociality

Jones, Graham M.; Semel, Beth; Le, Audrey

doi:10.1111/jola.12104

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“…A very interesting approach in this area was made by Jones et al (2015), were the linguistics aspects of inter-group communication in teams of hackathon participants, work toward their cohesion and dynamics.…”

Section: Team Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Older adults and hackathons: a qualitative study

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Globally observed trends in aging indicate that older adults constitute a growing share of the population and an increasing demographic in the modern technologies marketplace. Therefore, it has become important to address the issue of participation of older adults in the process of developing solutions suitable for their group. In this study, we approached this topic by organizing a hackathon involving teams of young programmers and older adults participants. Below we describe a case study of that hackathon, in which our objective was to motivate older adults to participate in software engineering processes. Based on our results from an array of qualitative methods, we propose a set of good practices that may lead to improved older adult participation in similar events and an improved process of developing apps that target older adults.

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Section: Team Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Older adults and hackathons: a qualitative study

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“…There is no screening to select people with certain skills. There is no attempt to control who attends and what problems they want to solve, or what skills they bring (Jones, Semel, & Le, 2015;Komssi, Pichlis, Raatikainen, Kindström, & Järvinen, 2015). The only common attempt at control is to define the theme for a hackathon (Komssi et al, 2015).…”

Section: The Nature Of Hackathonsmentioning

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“…Anyone who is interested in an idea (pain point) that has been pitched is able to join/form a group. People discuss the idea with the person who presented it, make decisions about what skills are (Jones et al, 2015).…”

Section: The Nature Of Hackathonsmentioning

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How do the design features of health hackathons contribute to participatory medicine?

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Humphrey

Cockcroft

2017

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The Hackathon concept is attracting interest as a vehicle for participatory development in both Health and Information systems. Publically available datasets, cloud based data storage, and increasingly sophisticated analytical methods, combined with user friendly development tools for mobile devices are inspiring innovation in the participatory medicine space. This has the potential to disrupt traditional methods and deliver solutions more rapidly, and in a form more likely to meet requirements. In health applications this involves putting the patient and their supports at the centre of design. This work contributes to solving the challenges involved in bringing a diverse cohort of designers, developers, problem owners, healthcare providers, patients, and citizens together to solve user-driven self-care problems using technology. We use a descriptive case study approach focussing on two weekend-long hackathons dubbed "Health Hackathon: Solving Self-care". We gather thick data from multiple sources according to the process defined by Geertz (1994) first, to provide a rich picture of the role of hackathons in participatory medicine and second, to contribute evidence to the practise of running a hackathon. Some key originalities of our work include seeking more candid responses via selfserve interviews. Through this, controversially, we noted a marked emphasis on the creative process over concerns for privacy and ethics around the personal data cloud created by hackathon products. We build on existing theories of participatory medicine and emerging methodologies for conducting hackathons to provide evidence of the efficacy of the hacking approach both in terms of outcome and team dynamics. Through interviews, observation, twitter feeds and a pre-survey, we identify a number of success factors including (1) group size, (2) maturity of the idea, (3) level of involvement of a mentor, and (4) involvement of students. In addition we identify five skills identified by successful health hackathon participants; knowledge, patient focussed skills, analytical skills, software design skills and professional perspective. In common with previous studies we find that there are considerable social benefits that accrue in running a hackathon. Participants meet new people and learn first-hand of the challenges and opportunities provided by the skill sets and work environments of others. This work builds on the existing body of research concerning hackathons and in particular work in the context of participatory medicine

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“…Although it may not be his primary intention, Boellstorff incidentally also shows in this article that developing something approaching a symmetrical anthropology of digital culture is also part of an ongoing process of displacing the discipline's inbuilt predilection for theorizing from the perspective of "comparatively small, autonomous groups," particularly when they are taken to embody an implicit ideal ontological alterity or, for that matter, communicative immediacy. This also means making legitimate ethnographic and theoretical room for the kinds of mass entertainment, play, and now even gamified work (Jones et al 2015) that flourish not just in digital culture but in cosmopolitan, postindustrial settings more broadly-even if it is difficult to do so without recourse to countercultural or subcultural tropes of quasi tribal alterity.…”

Section: Graham M Jonesmentioning

confidence: 99%