Come_in@palestine

Aal, Konstantin; Yerousis, George; Schubert, Kai; Hornung, Dominik; Stickel, Oliver; Wulf, Volker

doi:10.1145/2631488.2631498

Cited by 79 publications

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“…Taking experience from the West and adapting it to development contexts should not be implemented without taking some precautions [1,29]. Our study can provide practical insights for other researchers, system designers, and local stakeholders addressing similar challenges.…”

Section: Design Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…e e orts are relatively decentralized re ecting their diverse and unique situations. For example, Aal et al migrated computer clubs from their experience with migrants in Germany to refugees in Palestine to foster learning, social networks and integration with local environment [1]. Using qualitative eld notes and interview data, they found that refugees were eager to engage in projects, especially those involving technologies, despite the constant hurdles posed by poor or inconsistent access to the Internet and electricity.…”

Section: Ictd With Refugeesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even though within the refugee studies there are projects aiming at building a more connected and e ective community, e.g. computer lab project for Palestinian refugees by Aal et al [1] and antenatal health for Syrian refugees by Talhouk et al [51], few studies have used quantitative methods to systematically measure the e ects of the projects in in uencing the sense of community among the participants. is is important because sense of community is closely associated with building sustainable and resilient communities.…”

Section: Co-located Social Media Enhances the Sense Of Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With the refugee crises extending in duration across the globe, organizations in the host countries of refugees increasingly take on bo om-up community approaches in the development of refugees' livelihoods [1,60]. Humanitarian service providers are seeking sustainable approaches to engage the a ected population in building new lives.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Community Building with Co-located Social Media

Ying

Holzer

Maitland

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

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While co-located social media previously has been employed to enhance interaction in community building activities in previous work, its range of e ects have not been quantitatively described. In this study, we introduce a co-located social media app called SpeakUp to a community building project in the Za'atari Syrian refugee camp in Jordan. To overcome issues such as the lack of Internet access, we purposefully adapted the design of the application and ported its server to a low cost single board computer on a Raspberry Pi. We explore the e ects of SpeakUp through eld experiments with one control and two treatment groups, as well as with interviews and observations. Our results show that SpeakUp signi cantly increases refugees' level of participation and sense of community. Importantly, with the use of the application, female and male participants demonstrate no signi cant di erences in participation, showing that the use of such applications can be equalizing. We also found that co-located social media supports asynchronous interaction when outside-the-classroom activities are involved.

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Section: Design Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Community Building with Co-located Social Media

Ying

Holzer

Maitland

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

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“…Research that seriously engages with long(er) term design processes from diverse perspectives and theoretical orientations is sorely needed. Early efforts of this ilk in the human-computer interaction (HCI) community can be found around domains such as conflict and post-conflict situations (Aal et al, 2014;Durrant et al, 2014;Mark and Semaan, 2009;Smyth et al, 2010;Wallace et al, 2014), crisis informatics (Burns and Eltham, 2009;Starbird and Palen, 2012), collapse informatics (Tomlinson et al, 2013), cultural heritage (Liu, 2010) and sustainability (Bidwell et al, 2013;Blevis, 2007). The work reported here joins this literature-in the context of recovering from genocide and the development of systems of transitional justice-and draws from the theoretical framing of multilifespan design .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-Lifespan Information System Design in Support of Transitional Justice: Evolving Situated Design Principles for the Long(er) Term

2016

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Human societies face some significant problems-such as those tied to limitations of the human psyche, to tears in the social fabric, and to slow-moving natural processes-that defy rapid solution. Correspondingly, information systems that help to address these problems also develop over long(er) periods of time. Yet contemporary research and industry information system design is held to increasingly ambitious project deadlines. Research that engages with long(er) term design processes from diverse perspectives and theoretical orientations is needed. Early efforts of this ilk in the human-computer interaction community can be found around domains such as conflict and postconflict situations, crisis informatics, collapse informatics, cultural heritage and sustainability. The work reported here joins this literature-in the context of recovering from genocide and the development of systems of transitional justice-and draws from the theoretical framing of multilifespan design. Specifically, we report on the first 8 years of a multi-lifespan information system design project-the Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal-to support aspects of transitional justice in Rwanda. We offer a systematic presentation of the project's design principles and explicate the development of those guiding design principles through our engagement with a set of nine design challenges. We provide design reflections that pertain to information systems for transitional justice, conducting multi-lifespan information system design under shifting socio-political and technical conditions, and engaging with value sensitive design. We conclude with our contributions and open questions. RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTSThrough this submission we:• Model the type of reflective scholarship that can inform and enrich longer-term research projects.• Report on the first 8 years of a multi-lifespan design project-the Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal.• Address the problem of designing an information system pertaining to long-term processes and outcomes of transitional justice systems. • Review related information systems for transitional justice, the Rwandan context and our prior work.• Describe our design approach, including a systematic presentation of the project's guiding design principles. • Explicate the development of those guiding design principles through our engagement with a set of nine design challenges. • Demonstrate how guiding principles can provide one conceptual tool both to evoke and resolve value tensions throughout a design process. • Demonstrate the roles political and social change, shifting perspectives and time (including pause) play in longer-term design processes. • Demonstrate how well-designed systems have the potential to make information more accessible and comprehensible to the people who confront injustice, now and well into the future. • Articulate open questions concerning how to ethically engage multi-lifespan design work.

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