Home care workers (HCWs) deliver essential health services within patients' homes, yet, they are a marginalized workforce vulnerable to exploitation. Critical and liberatory pedagogies can foster material social change, but such pedagogies typically assume the involvement of a professional …

Home care workers (HCWs) provide essential care in patients' homes but are often underappreciated and work in stressful and isolated environments with diverse and intersecting support needs. This paper describes a computer-mediated peer support program that centers around sharing circles: …

Despite their unique contributions to heart failure (HF) care, home healthcare workers (HHWs) have unmet educational needs. To address this, we used a community-partnered approach to develop and pilot a HF training course for HHWs. We evaluated the course on feasibility, acceptability, and …

As researchers working in different subareas, we explore alternative approaches to designing with communities. In particular, we are enthusiastic about moving away from focusing on a community's needs toward building on its strengths. However, our varied experiences with assets-based design …

Home care workers (HCWs) provide in-home care services but feel underappreciated and isolated. Leveraging the support of peers is one way to empower HCWs, but there are barriers to doing so due to the distributed nature of home care work. In this study, we explore how HCWs value and …

We describe the experiences of home health care workers (HCWs) caring for older adults and for patients with chronic illnesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this qualitative study of 33 HCWs employed by 24 unique home care agencies across New York City, participants reported that they were …

In Cameroon, no exam is more important than the baccalauréat, which serves as the gateway to professional and higher-education aspirations. We build on existing literature on practice tests to evaluate how SMS-based quizzes could help students prepare for the baccalauréat. We find that students …

ICTD interventions targeting practitioners fit into a common typology that can be understood as how these interventions interact with the situated and social aspects of practice. I discuss how a Communites of Practice lens may intersect with other theoretical lenses in ICTD and related fields, …

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We created a system to send regularly-spaced, multiple-choice questions to students' own mobile devices to help secondary school students in Cameroon with exam practice via either SMS or WhatsApp. Students' participation rates were heavily impacted by trust in the intervening organization and …