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: …

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 …

Home care workers care for at risk populations but feel under-supported themselves. How can HCWs support each other while isolated in patients' homes? We worked with HCWs to design tech that can connect workers with each other.

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 …

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 …

We present an SMS-based system for providing transit information based solely on existing cellular and GPS networks. We developed and applied our system to privately-run marshrutka buses in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. However, our goal is to more broadly address issues of ad-hoc shared transportation …