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Designing for Transparency of Coffee Production Costs

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Gilly Leshed,

Liza Mansbach,

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CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Smallholder coffee farmers in Latin America depend on global supply chains for their livelihood, and many join certified cooperatives to increase access to fair prices. In order to find out what a fair price is, we designed CalcuCafé, a tool for coffee farmers to calculate their cost of production. An evaluation in Peru uncovered tensions between coffee farmers and cooperative technicians, highlighting barriers to information transparency at the production level. Our ongoing work to address these barriers strives to support the long-term viability of smallholder coffee producers, a sizable yet marginalized group at the intersection of HCI for sustainable agriculture and HCI for development.

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1. Human-centered computing

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April 2018

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ISBN:9781450356213

DOI:10.1145/3170427

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Doggett OBronson KSoden R(2023)HCI Research on Agriculture: Competing Sociotechnical Imaginaries, Definitions, and OpportunitiesProceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544548.3581081(1-24)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581081
Norton JPenzenstadler BTomlinson B(2019)Implications of Grassroots Sustainable Agriculture Community Values on the Design of Information SystemsProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/33591363:CSCW(1-22)Online publication date: 7-Nov-2019
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Steup RSanthanam ALogan MDombrowski LSu N(2018)Growing Tiny PublicsProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/32744342:CSCW(1-24)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2018
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