Wild at Home
Abstract
HCI can “turn to the wild” but still stay home. Local community life presents a rich context for understanding challenges and possibilities of information technology. We summarize and reflect upon a program of participatory design research in which we facilitated activities and experiences of our neighbors through developing a series of community-oriented programs and information systems through the past two decades. We organize these reflections around five overlapping themes: visibility of community actors, creation of community information infrastructures, the role of place-based identity and activity in community, the effectiveness of participatory relationships, and the research designs and methods appropriate. We frame these reflections around a conceptual model of community, and the suggestion that the local community can be a living laboratory for HCI in the wild.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 2013
- Source ID
- 10.1145/2491500.2491504
Entities
People
- John M. Carroll
- Mary Beth Rosson
Organizations
- Intel Corporation
- National Science Foundation
- Office of Naval Research
- Pennsylvania State University
- United States Department of Education
- Virginia Tech