Communications of the ACM
The politics of design: representing work
Communications of the ACM
Human values, ethics, and design
The human-computer interaction handbook
Breaking affordance: culture as context
Proceedings of the third Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction
ECSCW'91 Proceedings of the second conference on European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Values as lived experience: evolving value sensitive design in support of value discovery
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Bridging Global Divides with Tracking and Tracing Technology
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Evaluating the accuracy of data collection on mobile phones: a study of forms, sms, and voice
ICTD'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development
Chutney and relish: designing to augment the experience of shopping at a farmers' market
Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction
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Ubiquitous computing brings new parts of the world into contact with each other through digital devices. Consequently, it is important to understand what meaning is attached across contexts to particular interface choices, especially for the display of identity-related information. This understanding is made all the more critical when there are politically sensitive differences in status between areas (such as those implied by labelling one a "developing region"). This paper examines the politics of designing interfaces by looking at the situation of two producers in developing regions and relating this to the outcomes of studying a map metaphor with potential consumers from India and the UK. It does so in the context of exploring the representation of food production information as interactive user-generated content. Its findings challenge the popular notion of national cultural norms and suggest that an interface, which emphasises geography, can hide inter-continental similarities and intra-national variation and thus provide new support for stereotyping by region.