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CHI4Good or Good4CHI

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Joyojeet PalAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3052766

Published: 06 May 2017 Publication History

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This paper is a commentary on the place of social good within the context of human-computer interaction, specifically the CHI community. I propose three ways of looking at recent CHI research in this space -- application research, crossover work, and community-centric research, and suggest that the structural constraints of the CHI conference impact these differently. Tracing the history social-good-related research at CHI, I contextualize this to the construction of the designer and the technology industry as driven by a social mission. In conclusion, I propose that Good4CHI is a better characterization of the direction of value than conference themes such as CHI4Good.

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