PD questions major assumptions about technologies in workplaces, communities, homes,
and social institutions. It is not coincidental that PD offers these challenges at a time when …

CSCW systems are playing an increasing role in activism. How can new communications
technologies support social movements? The possibilities are intriguing, but as yet not fully …

Citizen sensing is an approach that develops and uses lightweight technologies with local
communities to collect, share and act upon data. In doing so it enables them to become …

In this paper, we explore the concept of participatory design from a different viewpoint by
drawing on an African philosophy of humanness-Ubuntu-, and African rural community …

We present our findings from a mixed methods study of mobile phone practices of rural
Indian women. We situate our study in the context of Projecting Health, a public health …

This paper is about the work we do to create productive partnerships in community settings:
developing relationships, demonstrating commitments, and overcoming personal and …

Despite the central role that stories play in social movement-building, they are difficult to
sustainably document for many reasons. To explore this challenge, this paper describes the …

This chapter discusses methods that go beyond merely adding users—methods to create
new settings and experiences that can assist computer professionals to work in partnership …

" Out there" is increasingly becoming a topic of concern in HCI. Thanks to various clarion
calls, researchers in the field are turning their attention to technology-mediated activities that …

We present a qualitative study of Projecting Health, a public health project we deployed in
rural Uttar Pradesh (India) to address persistently high maternal and infant mortality rates …