Being watched means much more than being seen. This forum investigates information flows of sensing culled from sources as diverse as temperature check and iris scans to sound and movement sensors across terrains. After Veillance discusses how these systems distribute risk unevenly and shape the lives of populations across the globe. --- Sareeta Amrute, Editor
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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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Gillian R. Hayes, C. Odgers, J. Kientz, Jason C. Yip, Kiley Sobel, Morgan G. Ames, Anamara Ritt Olson
The Interactions website (interactions.acm.org) hosts a stable of bloggers who share insights and observations on HCI, often challenging current practices. Each issue we'll publish selected posts from some of the leading and emerging voices in the field.
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I relating otherwise, articulating new forms of comprehension and connection. In thinking through absences, Mthoko, Adamu, and Lazem honor Hartman’s critical fabulation as a mode of historical reimagining—“(re)present[ing] the sequence of events through rewriting against our recollection of the records,” they explain. Here, fabulating holds lessons for the classroom within and beyond African institutions. It shows how expanding the pedagogical toolbox might require not only a range of new situated case studies but also new situated approaches to connecting, interpreting, retelling, and rewriting those stories. Fabulating design across a geographically diverse set of communities means learning how to reimagine this shared process with students. As design pedagogy, then, fabulation describes a movement that inquires in place, a practice focused less on resolutions, and more on the unknown and unknowable. In a recent XRDS article, HCI scholar Leslie Coney gestures at this critical repositioning: “[M]y new and diverse perspective...allows me to explore not only unanswered questions, but also unquestioned answers” [2]. By returning to the unquestioned answers, Mthoko and colleagues tell stories from another side.
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{"title":"The Matter of Inside and Outside","authors":"Linnea Öhlund","doi":"10.1145/3580300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3580300","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73404,"journal":{"name":"Interactions (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"30 1","pages":"27 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46118492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HCI Fundamentals Adapted to African Contexts","authors":"Anicia N. Peters","doi":"10.1145/3582195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3582195","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73404,"journal":{"name":"Interactions (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"30 1","pages":"35 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42014258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}