Human-Computer Interaction Across the Arab World

#CHIversity

“…(1) encouraged participation during the 'Diversity and Inclusion Lunch' and (2) hosting a Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to discuss the challenges of HCI in the Arab context, and the participation of Arab researchers [2]. Although distinctive from #CHIversity, both campaign teams identified commonalities in increased visibility of marginalised groups, mobilisation of existing resources, and shaping concrete plans for increased participation and engagement.…”

CHInclusion

“…In HCI we have a growing body of work related to issues of inclusion. With papers addressing issues such as street harassment [7], domestic violence [6], murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls [20], trans exclusion [1,12], black lives matter [17,19], or minorities and cross-cultural issues [2] we are starting to build conversations around important social, civic, and community issues.…”

“…Alongside these developments, ACM members have also developed a variety of SIGs, workshops, and panels in the past to address specific issues related to feminisms [4], intersectionality [11], justice [10], or self-established communities [2,3,5,16], while others have worked in less institutional ways to develop grassroots action towards more inclusive spaces at CHI directly [18]. We wholeheartedly welcome these developments, and hope to see more of these in the future, but at the same time appreciate that we as a community have work to do before calling ourselves a truly inclusive space.…”

“…With this workshop, we invite anyone concerned about inclusion at ACM SIGCHI events to help us build on previous grassroots work (eg. [2,10,11,18]) and respond to one of the points raised in the Open Letter to the CHI community read during the Town Hall at CHI 2018 [9]: "I think it is a bit harsh for us to address this social problem only at this year's CHI, the organisers of which have done a lot to put inclusion initiatives into place. I also think it is a huge amount of pressure on next year's organisers to say they must fix these deeply entrenched, contextualised and nuanced social concerns surrounding exclusion, toxic environments, and harassment.…”

“…We will take action in the workshop to equip ourselves with new understanding of others' experiences, which we are then able to take forward to take grassroots actions of kindness and support at the CHI2019 conference, in our own research labs, and future HCI events; to work towards genuinely international conferences (see eg. [2,3,5]…”