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User centered design and international development

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Gaurishankar Krishnan,

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CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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This workshop explores User Centered Design (UCD) challenges and contributions to International economic and community Development. We are addressing interaction design for parts of the world that are often marginalized by the Global North as well as people in the Global North who are themselves similarly marginalized by poverty or other barriers. We hope to extend the boundaries of the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) by spurring a discussion on how existing UCD practices can be adapted and modified, and how new practices be developed, to deal with the unique challenges posed by this context.

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User centered design and international development
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Computing / technology policy

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