Hci for community and international development

  • Authors:

  • John Thomas;Andy Dearden;Susan Dray;Ann Light;Michael Best;Nuray Arkin;Andrew Maunder;Mathew Kam;Marshini Chetty;Nithya Sambasivan;Celeste Buckhalter;Gaurishankar Krishnan

  • Affiliations:

  • IBM T.J.Watson Research, Hawthorne, NY, USA;Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom;Dray and Associates, Minneapolis, MN, USA;Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom;Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA;The New School, New York, NY, USA;University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa;University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA;Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA;University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA;Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA;Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This workshop explores the challenges in applying, extending and inventing appropriate methods and contributions of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) to International economic and community Development. We address interaction design for parts of the world that are often marginalized by the Global North as well as people in the Global North who are themselves similarly marginalized by poverty or other barriers. We hope to extend the boundaries of the field of Human Computer Interaction by spurring a discussion on how existing methods and practices can be adapted and modified, and how new practices can be developed, to deal with the unique challenges posed by these contexts.