Understanding and Using Context
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Communications of the ACM - A game experience in every application
Yesterday’s tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing’s dominant vision
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Information Technologies and International Development
Text-free user interfaces for illiterate and semiliterate users
Information Technologies and International Development
Designing e-learning games for rural children in India: a format for balancing learning with fun
Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems
"Narrowcast yourself": designing for community storytelling in a rural Indian context
Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems
How computer science serves the developing world
Communications of the ACM - One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality
Can i borrow your phone?: understanding concerns when sharing mobile phones
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Yours, mine and ours? sharing and use of technology in domestic environments
UbiComp '07 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
UNDER DEVELOPMENT: Encountering development ethnographically
interactions - Catalyzing a Perfect Storm
Intermediated technology use in developing communities
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ViralVCD: tracing information-diffusion paths with low cost media in developing communities
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Transnational times: locality, globality and mobility in technology design and use
Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference adjunct papers on Ubiquitous computing - Adjunct
Designing a phone broadcasting system for urban sex workers in India
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The times they are a-changin': mobile payments in india
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Transnational HCI: humans, computers, and interactions in transnational contexts
CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Cutting Chai, Jugaad, and Here Pheri: towards UbiComp for a global community
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Understanding negotiation in airtime sharing in low-income microenterprises
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Interactive DVDs as a platform for education
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
Hustling online: understanding consolidated facebook use in an informal settlement in Nairobi
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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This paper attempts to re-imagine ubiquitous computing for populations in low-income and information-challenged environments. We examine information infrastructures in mid-sized urban slums of Mumbai and Bangalore in three ways--1) highlighting technologies supporting social networks, 2) examining underlying notions of trust and privacy in building information networks, and 3) discussing protocols and practices around shared access. We then discuss our thoughts on designing for low-income, low-literacy, and resource-challenged communities, presenting new ways to think about the design of ubiquitous technologies for international development. We argue for collaborative exchange between the established strengths of the Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) and Ubicomp communities to generate new ways of shaping technologies towards poverty alleviation in previously neglected socio-economic contexts--Ubicomp4D.