HCI researchers have been gradually shifting attention from individual users to communities
when engaging in research, design, and system development. However, our field has yet to …

Moving into the social and public sector, service design is becoming both more complex and
more participatory. This is reflected in the greater diversity and interrelatedness of …

Participatory Design (PD) is envisioned as an approach to democratizing innovation in the
design process by shifting the power dynamics between researcher and participant. Recent …

This paper examines the promise of empathy, the name commonly given to the initial phase
of the human-centered design process in which designers seek to understand their intended …

With increased focus on historically excluded populations, there have been recent calls for
HCI research methods to more adequately acknowledge and address the historical context …

What does the future hold for digital technology and education? What can be learnt from the
history of technology use in education? Does digital technology make education more …

Abstract Design thinking is based on designers' creative ways of working and is defined as a
formal method for creative problem solving aimed at fostering innovation by harnessing “the …

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 …

The HCI community has worked to expand and improve our consideration of the societal
implications of our work and our corresponding responsibilities. Despite this increased …

As the push for intersection between decolonial and post-colonial perspectives and
technology design and HCI continues to grow, the natural challenge of embracing different …