CHI

Designing for Peer-Led Critical Pedagogies in Computer-Mediated Support Groups for Home Care Workers

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 …

Engaging High School Students in Cameroon with Exam Practice Quizzes via SMS and WhatsApp

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 …

Interactive Tabletops Aren’t Going to Situate Themselves

Research situated in non-Western contexts continues to be exceptionalized and marginalized in Computing venues. This exceptionalizing creates power differences that result in additional labor of self-location performed by the periphery in order to be understood by researchers situated in Western …