Toward an Afro-Centric Indigenous HCI Paradigm

Winschiers‐Theophilus, Heike; Bidwell, Nicola J.

doi:10.1080/10447318.2013.765763

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“…For some support to that argument see e.g. [46,47,2,35,34,15]. Research on cultural usability evaluation methods suggests that power distance is important for UEMs used in Malaysia [49].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 92%

Harambee

Oyugi

Abdelnour-Nocera

Clemmensen

2014

Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational

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The research reported in this paper seeks to advance the discussion on cultural usability and its implementation among non-western users. This investigation focuses on the effect of culture on the quality of usability evaluation results among Kenyan young professionals and Kenyan farmers. Literature review and field observation studies were used to develop a theoretical framework, which in turn was used to scaffold a usability evaluation method 'Harambee', depicting working together during the evaluation exercise. The 'Harambee' and Retrospective Protocol methods were implemented and usability results compared. The quality of the farmers' usability results consistently improved with the 'Harambee' method but not so with the young professionals. Despite being from the same culture-group, the effect of culture on quality of usability results seems to differ among high-end and lowend users. Consequently, when adapting UEMs, there is a need to go beyond the national cultural level and focus on the user-type too.

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“…For some support to that argument see e.g. [46,47,2,35,34,15]. Research on cultural usability evaluation methods suggests that power distance is important for UEMs used in Malaysia [49].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 92%

Harambee

Oyugi

Abdelnour-Nocera

Clemmensen

2014

Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational

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“…Additionally, it explicitly and actively concerns itself with power relations [78]. In contrast to capitalism and ubiquity, postcolonial HCI researchers propose approaches based on social justice [139], the centring of indigenous knowledge and users [8], and the development of design paradigms explicitly made, rooted and deployed in local communities, contexts and knowledge [127,150].…”

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confidence: 99%

Human-Computer Insurrection

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Drouhard

2019

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

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The HCI community has worked to expand and improve our consideration of the societal implications of our work and our corresponding responsibilities. Despite this increased engagement, HCI continues to lack an explicitly articulated politic, which we argue re-inscribes and amplifies systemic oppression. In this paper, we set out an explicit political vision of an HCI grounded in emancipatory autonomy-an anarchist HCI, aimed at dismantling all oppressive systems by mandating suspicion of and a reckoning with imbalanced distributions of power. We outline some of the principles and accountability mechanisms that constitute an anarchist HCI. We offer a potential framework for radically reorienting the field towards creating prefigurative counterpower-systems and spaces that exemplify the world we wish to see, as we go about building the revolution in increment.

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“…With respect to HCI and design, several researchers have looked at how design methods are adapted and appropriated in different cultural contexts [4,9] and have considered alternative techniques for requirements engineering when developing for marginalized groups [5]. However, seed accelerators are a new phenomenon (circa 2005) and have exploded onto the world scene in the past few years, and little research has been done to understand this growth and how successful this innovation model has been, they types of technologies and businesses they've produced, and the impact they've had in other regions.…”

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Haines

2014

Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work &Amp; Social Computi

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A confluence of factors has enabled the explosion of technology startups worldwide. The global spread of seed accelerators, incubators which foster high-tech startups, are a major component of this. But little is known about how they are impacting the global technology landscape. Through fieldwork with accelerators in Southeast Asia and Latin America and broad-based research with other accelerators in developed and emerging markets, I propose to investigate the expansion of this Silicon Valley model of innovation, how it is transformed and implemented in other contexts, and the impact it has on the types of technologies created and the growth of ecosystems.

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Toward an Afro-Centric Indigenous HCI Paradigm

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