Dissent by Design

Hanna, Julian; Ashby, Simone; Matos, Sónia; Faria, Alexis; Rodrigues, Ricardo

doi:10.1145/3290607.3310423

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“…The adoption of a manifesto in futuring African HCI identities was developed on the understanding of its politics in development studies [24,71], human-computer interaction [25,80,109] and different dimensions of decolonization [3]. In HCI, a manifesto is widely considered a political instrument that can challenge existing structures, principles, and discourses of organising society [25,80].…”

Section: Politics Of Manifesto and Design Futuring In And Beyond Hcimentioning

confidence: 99%

No More “Solutionism” or “Saviourism” in Futuring African HCI: A Manyfesto

Adamu

2023

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Research in HCI4D has continuously advanced a narrative of ‘lacks’ and ‘gaps’ of the African perspective in technoscience. In response to such misguided assumptions, this paper attempts to reformulate the common and perhaps unfortunate thinking about African practices of design in HCI4D – i.e., largely as a function of African societal predicaments and Western technocratic resolutions. Through critical reflection on a range of issues associated with post-colonialism and post-development, I examine the possibilities that various historical tropes might offer to the reinvention of the African perspective on innovation. This leads to the consideration of how engaging in critical discussions about the future dimensions of African HCI can allow for grappling with the effect of the coloniality of being, power and knowledge. Developing on the ideas of futuring as a way of dealing with the complexities of the present – in this case the coloniality of the imagination - the paper ends by discussing three tactical propositions for ‘remembering’ future identities of African innovation where the values of autonomy are known and acted upon.

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Section: Politics Of Manifesto and Design Futuring In And Beyond Hcimentioning

confidence: 99%

No More “Solutionism” or “Saviourism” in Futuring African HCI: A Manyfesto

Adamu

2023

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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“…Drawing on these opportunities, challenges and themes, the manifesto for digital social touch in crisis aims to provoke and prompt new ideas by opening an interdisciplinary space to question and imagine newly digital social touch. The manifesto seeks to be a bridge between HCI, computer science and engineers, and social scientists engaged with digital social touch -to "give new life to" (Hanna et al, 2019:2) the design of digital social touch.…”

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“…Manifestos are typically short and sharp, often purposefully poetic and ambiguous, with a tone ranging from playful, excited or hopeful through to angry. Manifestos remain less common in HCI in comparison to other disciplines (Hanna et al, 2019), although their take up within HCI appears to have increased recently with the development of manifestos on various aspects of design (e.g., Design Justice Network Principles, 2018), specific technologies, such as Blockchain technology (Elsden et al, 2019) and the Internet of Things (reviewed in Fritsch et al (2018)), and futures more generally (e.g., the Dagstuhl Manifesto series initiated in 2011).…”

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Manifesto for Digital Social Touch in Crisis

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Price

Steimle

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Front. Comput. Sci.

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This qualitative exploratory research paper presents a Manifesto for Digital Social Touch in Crisis - a provocative call to action to designers, developers and researchers to rethink and reimagine social touch through a deeper engagement with the social and sensory aspects of touch. This call is motivated by concerns that social touch is in a crisis signaled by a decline in social touch over the past 2 decades, the problematics of inappropriate social touch, and the well documented impact of a lack of social touch on communication, relationships, and well-being and health. These concerns shape how social touch enters the digital realm and raise questions for how and when the complex space of social touch is mediated by technologies, as well the societal implications. The paper situates the manifesto in the key challenges facing haptic designers and developers identified through a series of interdisciplinary collaborative workshops with participants from computer science, design, engineering, HCI and social science from both within industry and academia, and the research literature on haptics. The features and purpose of the manifesto form are described, along with our rationale for its use, and the method of the manifesto development. The starting points, opportunities and challenges, dominant themes and tensions that shaped the manifesto statements are then elaborated on. The paper shows the potential of the manifesto form to bridge between HCI, computer science and engineers, and social scientists on the topic of social touch.

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“…In the spirit of 'punk HCI', their contribution unleashes the use of an unusual format, at least in the context of HCI. Although it is ring-fenced inside CHI's designated progressive section, alt.chi, this contribution, alongside other HCI and interaction design contributions [22,35,45,20,27,1,21,39,6,24], uses the manifesto as a way of provoking a discussion around complex issues. In many of these manifestos one witnesses attempts by HCI researchers to perform a series of (often overlapping) moves: to speak collectively, build consensus, raise awareness, advocate for and accelerate change, speak for and from the margins, disrupt the status quo, unsettle stuck discourse, sidestep conventional modes, expose broken promises, and 'circumvent ordinary ... avenues' of redress if they are too slow in responding to urgent demands for change [34].…”

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“…The 80-minute structured session at CHI was comprised of two separate manifesto writing exercises, and concluded with performances by participant groups for the sharing of results and processes. After modelling our manifesto [24] and explaining the basic rules of gameplay, along with rough guidelines for each activity (e.g. Figure 3), we divided the audience into random groups.…”

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Fourth-Wave HCI Meets the 21st Century Manifesto

Ashby

Hanna

Matos

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019

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We take up Bødker's [9] challenge to 'identify' a fourth wave HCI, building on the work of Blevis et al. [8] and others to shore up a new vision that places 'politics and values and ethics' at the forefront without abandoning the strengths of previous waves. We insist that a fourth wave must push harder, beyond measured criticism for actual (e.g. institutional) change. We present two studies performed at CHI'19, where we used our MANIFESTO! game to: 1) take the temperature of colleagues on adopting an activist stance, 2) test manifesto writing as a key activity in pushing HCI forward into the fourth wave, and 3) test our game for subsequent iterations, and as a probe for inspiring new digital tools. With the enthusiastic response received to gameplay, facilitated in part through a novel method using tableau vivant, we argue for taking political activism from the margins into mainstream HCI.

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Dissent by Design

Cited by 9 publications

References 19 publications

No More “Solutionism” or “Saviourism” in Futuring African HCI: A Manyfesto

No More “Solutionism” or “Saviourism” in Futuring African HCI: A Manyfesto

Manifesto for Digital Social Touch in Crisis

Fourth-Wave HCI Meets the 21st Century Manifesto

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