Designing For Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Time

Taylor, Jennyfer Lawrence; Soro, Alessandro; Hong, Anita Lee; Roe, Paul; Brereton, Margot

doi:10.1145/2998581.2998606

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“…Such difficulties become evident when design encounters involve users and designers from different backgrounds, for example in terms of different understandings of time [5,6], different conceptions of personhood [4], different attitudes towards collaboration [7], and more. For example, Taylor and colleagues illustrate the potential for ICTs that privilege Western values to operate in tension with a community's own values and ways of knowing.…”

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“…In fact, it has been observed that social networking websites promote Western perspectives about personhood and individuality [4], user interfaces can embed modernist conceptions of time [5,6], and even design methods can reflect Western biases in their epistemological positioning [7,8]. On the other hand, non-Western perspectives on (e.g.)…”

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A Cross-Cultural Noticeboard for a Remote Community: Design, Deployment, and Evaluation

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Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2017

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Remote communities all over the world often face the problem of creating and sharing digital contents in ways that are appropriate for their values and customs while using tools that were designed for Western contexts. This paper advocates for a different approach that builds upon the own goals and ambitions of a specific community, leveraging existing skills, and reflecting local ways of knowing in spite of the higher costs. We present the design of a digital noticeboard tailored to the needs and values of the Australian Aboriginal community of Groote Eylandt. The noticeboard was designed to support communication and promote literacy by offering bilingual multimodal content creation and sharing. The final design mirrors the preference for orality and storytelling, is well suited to working in groups, and pays special attention to issues of moderation. The noticeboard does not rely on a stable connectivity, and notices can be shared to many locations using low-tech opportunistic mechanisms. Because the value of custom designs can hardly be assessed only in terms of cost and efficiency in this paper we propose to focus on community engagement as a measure of success for HCI4D projects.

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Challenges and Paradoxes in Decolonising HCI: A Critical Discussion

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Giglitto

Nkwo

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The preponderance of Western methods, practices, standards, and classifications in the manner in which new technology-related knowledge is created and globalised has led to calls for more inclusive approaches to design. A decolonisation project is concerned with how researchers might contribute to dismantling and re-envisioning existing power relations, resisting past biases, and balancing Western heavy influences in technology design by foregrounding the authentic voices of the indigenous people in the entire design process. We examine how the establishment of local Global South HCI communities (AfriCHI and ArabHCI) has led to the enactment of decolonisation practices. Specifically, we seek to uncover how decolonisation is perceived in the AfriCHI and ArabHCI communities as well as the extent to which both communities are engaged with the idea of decolonisation without necessarily using the term. We drew from the relevant literature, our own outsider/insider lived experiences, and the communities’ responses to an online anonymised survey to highlight three problematic but interrelated practical paradoxes: a terminology, an ethical, and a micro-colonisation paradox. We argue that these paradoxes expose the dilemmas faced by local non-Western researchers as they pursue decolonisation thinking. This article offers a blended perspective on the decolonisation debate in HCI, CSCW, and the practice-based CSCW scholarly communities and invites researchers to examine their research work using a decolonisation lens.

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Time and Temporality in HCI Research

Wiberg

Stolterman

2021

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‘Time’ and ‘temporality’ are increasingly addressed in human-computer interaction (HCI) research. From issues related to mapping and visualizing data along timelines via explorations of temporality as a design material to studies of lag and the rhythms of work, time is a recurring perspective in HCI research. In fact, time has been a recurring aspect in HCI research for the past 30 years. Based on this continuous and growing interest in HCI research, we find it to be a good time to explore if ‘time’ can be used as a way to structure and organize HCI research. In this paper, we make one such attempt based on a literature study in which we have focused on how time and temporality has been addressed in HCI research during the past 30 years. In our overview of the field, we explore how time and temporality has played out in HCI along the two dimensions of what and how it has been studied. Based on these two dimensions, we created a 4 × 4 matrix that allowed us to filter the material and categorize HCI research in relation to time and temporality. As a result of our explorations, we have identified a turn to temporality as a design material in HCI, an interest in methods for temporality studies in HCI and in temporality as a theoretical lens. We end with a discussion of some implications of our findings around the notions of (i) waves of time and temporality studies in HCI research, (ii) the potential use of the 4 × 4 matrix and (iii) the consequences of a more fundamental shift from things to events.

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Designing For Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Time

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

A Cross-Cultural Noticeboard for a Remote Community: Design, Deployment, and Evaluation

A Cross-Cultural Noticeboard for a Remote Community: Design, Deployment, and Evaluation

Challenges and Paradoxes in Decolonising HCI: A Critical Discussion

Time and Temporality in HCI Research

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