How to integrate digital media into a drop-in for homeless young people for deepening relationships between youth and adults

Hendry, David G.; Woelfer, Jill Palzkill; Harper, Rowena; Bauer, Theodore J.; Fitzer, Brynn; Champagne, Mike

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2010.11.024

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“…Not only is information technology and digital media arguably now a basic need [15], but its use among the homeless is also linked to collaborative practices aiding survival and inclusion among the larger community. Mobile phones are important for survival on the streets; as they are tools for communication and connection between peers, their families and friends, social service centres, job opportunities, etc.…”

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Exploring Learning Ecologies among People Experiencing Homelessness

Strohmayer

Comber

Balaam

2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Non-homeless youths outperform their homeless peers in school even if they live in extreme poverty. This disadvantage can have long-term consequences for engagement with and navigation of wider society. In this paper we examine how differences in achievement could be tackled outside of school through the re-envisioning of ecologies of digital education. Through interviews, design workshops, and a street visit with a total of 20 homeless young adults during a three-week engagement with a centre for people of low social stability in Bucharest, Romania, we examine the perceptions of education among street involved youth or adults. We identify the core values, aspirations, opportunities and barriers for education among these people, including survival, friendship, learning networks, and curiosity. These findings resulted in five implications for design: learning 'happens', learning 'works', designing for distanced learning, designing for the social politics of learning, and designing artefacts of everyday learning. These show the importance and necessity of educational reform in the field of HCI.

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Exploring Learning Ecologies among People Experiencing Homelessness

Strohmayer

Comber

Balaam

2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Photograph by Helen Taylor less young people over 18 months, beginning in January 2009 [9]. As an incentive, young people who successfully completed the class received an iPod.…”

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Homeless young people and technology

Woelfer

Hendry

2011

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Homelessness among young people aged 13 to 30 is a pressing problem with lasting social and economic consequences for the U.S. By one estimate, 3 million young people experience homelessness annually; that is, about 1 percent of the U.S. population is both young and homeless at some point each year [1]. The psycho-social factors of homeless young people have been studied extensively in the social sciences. In sum, this research shows homeless young people to be a heterogeneous mix of ages, genders, races, and ethnicities, and that the interrelated causes and effects of homeless are multifarious. Among the common causes are intergenerational poverty, severe family conflict often connected with substance abuse, mental health disorders, and abuse and neglect by caregivers. Many homeless young people suffer mentally and physically from the longterm effects of childhood trauma.Homeless young people also adopt digital technologies. Indeed, our own work shows that homeless young people desire digital technology in all its forms [2]. Moreover, particular uses of digital technology might have far-reaching impacts. Maintaining ties with family through Facebook, for example, appears to be correlated with reductions in sexual risk-taking behaviors among homeless young people [3]. Accordingly, we invite readers of this forum to consider how ordinary, everyday interactions with technology may be conditioned by the extraordinary circumstances of homelessness [4]. i n t e r a c t i o n s N o v e m b e r + D e c e m b e r 2 0 11 73 uniVerSaL inTer ac TionS Forum

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“…Recently, it has offered an 8-session, 4-week life-skills class, called New Tech for Youth Sessions (NTYS). In this class [8], young people develop their skills for searching and applying for jobs and work-related opportunities. As students progress through the class, they receive incentives, including a thumb drive for storing digital files and, at the last class, an 8 GB iPod and $15.00 iTunes gift card.…”

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“…Our own work has investigated the use of digital and nondigital information systems for improving the welfare of homeless young people [8,23,24]. We have observed that homeless young people eagerly adopt digital media and mobile phones [23].…”

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Homeless young people and living with personal digital artifacts

Woelfer

Hendry

2011

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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This paper reports on an investigation of how homeless young people hold themselves in relation to personal digital artifacts. Twelve participants, aged 19-29, took part in semi-structured interviews. Participants answered questions about the acquisition and disposition of personal artifacts, digital and non-digital, including mobile phones, music players, and wallets. The analysis of the interview transcripts reveals that young people often part with their digital artifacts in order to meet immediate needs, including the need to create and reciprocate goodwill. This contingent holding of personal artifacts illuminates both the ordinary and extraordinary circumstances of homelessness. The paper concludes with a discussion of constraints and implications for the design of information systems for improving the welfare of homeless young people.

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How to integrate digital media into a drop-in for homeless young people for deepening relationships between youth and adults

Cited by 22 publications

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Exploring Learning Ecologies among People Experiencing Homelessness

Exploring Learning Ecologies among People Experiencing Homelessness

Homeless young people and technology

Homeless young people and living with personal digital artifacts

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