SECTION: Features
The shape of our feminisms
Understanding agency and empowerment outside the Global North.
By Maryam Mustafa, March 2021
Articles Tagged: Cultural characteristics
Articles & Features
HCI education of choice
This article is from the perspective of an Egyptian HCI educator who explores "designing" inclusive designers, and how decolonial thinking can address inclusion in HCI education as one possible critical lens.
By Shaimaa Lazem, March 2021
Past, present, and past as present in India's predictive policing
In India, law enforcement's use of big data to thwart crime has instead amplified the discriminatory presence of caste, religion, gender, and other social markers within a system that is supposedly objective and neutral.
By Shivangi Narayan, December 2020
Community and freedom
This article reflects on approaches to community making, recounting the experience of a group of activists running two workshops in a prison in Argentina, working from a free software and free culture perspective.
By Carolina D'Amelio, Federico Ternavasio, Martín Morales, July 2020
SECTION: Features
Havana's StreetNet: Innovation from necessity
In Havana, technology enthusiasts have designed StreetNet, a community network that serves as an alternative to the worldwide web. This article describes the deeply relational practices that go toward the maintenance of StreetNet, highlighting elements of struggle that accompany innovative strategies that result from necessity.
By Michaelanne Dye, November 2019
The past and present: A push toward the good life
In this article, we contemplate how African communities, based on their unique experiences and backgrounds, can increasingly become producers and participants in the technology development process; a step beyond just being end-users.
By Cynthia Habonimana, Moses Namara, November 2019
How technology converses with local languages
The relationship between technology and language use is situated in social and historical factors. Considering the meaning of language use in technology design is essential for supporting diverse language preferences.
By Naveena Karusala, November 2019
Protibadi: Starting the fight against sexual abuse
The story of how a group of Bangladeshi volunteers used technology to address the country's sexual abuse problem.
By Nova Ahmed, November 2019
SECTION: Features
Serving people in crisis to make the world a better place
Carolin Silbernagl, who leads betterplace lab, the research arm of betterplace.org in Berlin, Germany, is a social technologist, as well as co-founder of dotHIV. Here, she shares what it takes to make betterplace, the first mover in the area of digital social startups in Germany.
By Nidhi Rastogi, Rahul R. Divekar, April 2017
SECTION: Profile
Mikel Maron
A life spent digitizing the sense of direction
By Adrian Scoică, April 2017
DEPARTMENT: Blogs
CHI 2016
What can 1,000 scientists achieve when they invest one hour doing voluntary work?
By Nur Al-huda Hamdan, September 2016
COLUMN: INIT
The center and the periphery: beyond Eurocentrism
By Ahmed Ansari, Raghavendra Kandala, June 2016
SECTION: Features
Decolonising HCI and interaction design discourse: some considerations in planning AfriCHI
Bringing African theorists into the construction of African identity in HCI.
By Nicola J. Bidwell, June 2016
Breaking the cycle of Macondo: design and decolonial futures
How can the ideas of timelessness and anachronism contribute to the decolonization of design practices in Latin America?
By Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Pedro J. S. Vieira de Oliveira, June 2016
Negotiating science, technology, culture, and religion: the art and ideas of Laleh Mehran
In this interview, the artist Laleh Mehran discusses her use of interactive installations to explore the relationships between science, theology, and technology. She also shares how her experience as an Iranian-American has shaped the structure and themes of her work.
By Jennifer Jacobs, June 2016
Jian Guan on design and innovation in China
Having attended universities in the U.S. and China, this educator shares his insight of the design industry and education in China.
By Ahmed Ansari, Raghavendra Kandala, June 2016
SECTION: Profile
Sanny Gaddafi
Living at the forefront of Indonesia's tech emancipation
By Adrian Scoică, June 2016