Context, Culture, and Fabulations

Hafeni Mthoko, M. Adamu, S. Lazem
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I local challenges and opportunities or through the integration of HCI’s knowledge practices into capacity development programs and projects. In our collective conversations, we draw upon such initiatives to consider, How has/may HCI take root in Africa? [3]. With the proliferation of technology development on the continent, exposing technology enthusiasts and practitioners to HCI’s practices becomes crucial as a tool to curb the technocentric narrative that is pervasive in technological discourses. However, technology designers and implementers do not always have access to mainstream HCI facilities and resources, which are often curated for academic institutions. Moreover, existing HCI curricula have been met with complexities where there is a mismatch between the culture of origination and the context in which they are applied. Consequently, ongoing conversations with HCI researchers, academics, and practitioners in Africa highlighted the need for an African HCI curriculum since the early inception of the AfriCHI community [4]. In an attempt to reshape some of these narratives, a workshop to codesign an African HCI curriculum was In 2006, Jonathan Grudin posited that the field of HCI might have no home or many homes [1]. This raises a range of questions about the status of HCI as either a metadiscipline, an eclectic discipline, or an interdisciplinarity. The HCI narrative in Africa is even more sporadic, with the continued tensions faced when importing and uncritically adopting HCI methods, approaches, and techniques to technology design projects there. Asserting an alternative constitution of identities in HCI, the subprogram of African HCI came about as a community of researchers and practitioners designing and evaluating interactive systems for African communities [2]. This and growing decolonial efforts continue to challenge the status quo of technological innovation and reimagine interaction design that considers the plurality of the principles, practices, and knowledge foundational to any design project in Africa. As African HCI researchers and educators, we continuously quest for finding/making an intersectional space for our distinctive African HCI identities. This is not new, as Indigenous researchers have moved toward making HCI a household term in African institutions and industries [2,3], either through the design of living curricula to meet Context, Culture, and Fabulations: In Search of a Home for Our Veiled African Design Stories
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I当地的挑战和机遇,或通过将HCI的知识实践融入能力发展计划和项目。在我们的集体对话中,我们利用这些举措来思考,HCI是如何/可能在非洲扎根的?[3] 。随着技术发展在非洲大陆的扩散,让技术爱好者和从业者了解HCI的实践,成为遏制技术话语中普遍存在的技术中心叙事的工具,变得至关重要。然而,技术设计者和实施者并不总是能够获得主流的HCI设施和资源,这些设施和资源通常是为学术机构策划的。此外,现有的HCI课程也遇到了复杂性,即起源文化和应用背景之间不匹配。因此,与非洲HCI研究人员、学者和从业者的持续对话强调了自AfriCHI社区早期成立以来对非洲HCI课程的需求[4]。为了重塑其中的一些叙事,2006年,乔纳森·格鲁丁(Jonathan Grudin)举办了一个共同设计非洲HCI课程的研讨会,他认为HCI领域可能没有家或有很多家[1]。这就提出了一系列关于HCI作为元学科、折衷学科或跨学科的地位的问题。非洲的HCI叙事更加零散,在那里的技术设计项目中进口和不加批判地采用HCI方法、方法和技术时,持续面临紧张局势。非洲HCI的子程序断言了HCI中身份的另一种构成,它是由研究人员和从业者组成的社区,为非洲社区设计和评估互动系统[2]。这种和日益增长的非殖民化努力继续挑战技术创新的现状,并重新构想互动设计,考虑到非洲任何设计项目的原则、实践和知识的多样性。作为非洲HCI研究人员和教育工作者,我们不断寻求为我们独特的非洲HCI身份寻找/创造一个交叉空间。这并不是什么新鲜事,因为土著研究人员已经开始将HCI作为非洲机构和行业的一个家喻户晓的术语[2,3],无论是通过设计生活课程来满足背景、文化和寓言:为我们披着面纱的非洲设计故事寻找家
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