Civically engaged HCI: Tensions between novelty and social impact

Mara Balestrini; Yvonne Rogers; Paul Marshall

doi:10.1145/2783446.2783590

Civically engaged HCI: Tensions between novelty and social impact

Mara Balestrini, Yvonne Rogers, Paul Marshall

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

HCI researchers are increasingly conducting civically engaged research in the wild to design technologies for social action that aim to empower communities at the grassroots level. However, there are very few descriptions of HCI interventions that have achieved sustained community engagement and social impact. We discuss three tensions that are hindering HCI's capacity to produce both research and social contributions and suggest how to overcome them.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	British HCI 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference 2015
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	35-36
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450336437
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2783446.2783590
Publication status	Published - 13 Jul 2015
Event	British HCI Conference, British HCI 2015 - Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom Duration: 13 Jul 2015 → 17 Jul 2015

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Conference	British HCI Conference, British HCI 2015
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Period	13/07/15 → 17/07/15

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Bristol Interaction Group

Keywords

Activism
Civically engaged research
Grassroots
Technologies for social action

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Balestrini, M, Rogers, Y & Marshall, P 2015, Civically engaged HCI: Tensions between novelty and social impact. in British HCI 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference 2015. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 35-36, British HCI Conference, British HCI 2015, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, 13/07/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2783446.2783590

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