Why Play? Examining the Roles of Play in ICTD

Ferreira, Pedro

doi:10.7146/aahcc.v1i1.21264

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“…Our qualitative study includes altogether 16 in-depth, semi-structured, individual interviews with 11 participants. It is part of a broader research project on long-term outdoors activities [25], and research agenda on the relationship between enjoyment and technology [5,17]. Here, we explore empirically experiences of long-term cycling, or bike touring, with a focus on the relationship of this nomadic leisure practice to participants' everyday life and work.…”

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From Nomadic Work to Nomadic Leisure Practice

Ferreira

Helms

Brown

et al. 2019

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Mobility has long been a central concern in research within the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) community, particularly when it comes to work and how being on the move calls for reorganizing work practices. We expand this line of work with a focus on nomadic leisure practices. Based on interviews with eleven participants, we present a study that illuminates how digital technologies are used to shape and structure long-distance cycling. Our main analysis centers on bike touring as a nomadic leisure practice and on how it offers a radical departure from traditional modes of structuring work and life, and thus, complicates the relationship between work and leisure. We complement this with an account of managing the uncertainties of nomadicity by focusing on participants' experiences with arranging overnighting and network hospitality. We offer this study, firstly, as one response to the call for more diversity in the empirical cases drawn upon in theorizing nomadic work and leisure practices, but more productively, as an opportunity to reflect upon the temporal and spatial logics of digital technologies and platforms and how they frame our attitudes towards the interplay between work and leisure.

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From Nomadic Work to Nomadic Leisure Practice

Ferreira

Helms

Brown

et al. 2019

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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“…As we think about the pragmatics of sustaining communal crafting spaces, economic realities will play a significant role. However, we believe that there can be room for playfulness [17,65,69] and more choices.…”

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Crafting, Communality, and Computing: Building on Existing Strengths To Support a Vulnerable Population

Gautam

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Harrison

2020

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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In Nepal, sex-trafficking survivors and the organizations that support them have limited resources to assist the survivors in their on-going journey towards reintegration. We take an asset-based approach wherein we identify and build on the strengths possessed by such groups. In this work, we present reflections from introducing a voice-annotated web application to a group of survivors. The web application tapped into and built upon two elements of pre-existing strengths possessed by the survivors -the social bond between them and knowledge of crafting as taught to them by the organization. Our findings provide insight into the array of factors influencing how the survivors act in relation to one another as they created novel use practices and adapted the technology. Experience with the application seemed to open knowledge of computing as a potential source of strength. Finally, we articulate three design desiderata that could help promote communal spaces: make activity perceptible to the group, create appropriable steps, and build in fun choices.

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