TY - CPAPER
KW - Intangible cultural heritage
KW - Intangible cultural heritages
KW - Egypt
KW - Students
KW - HCI4D
KW - Human computer interaction
KW - Economic and social effects
KW - Curricula
KW - Human engineering
KW - HCI
KW - Bottom up
KW - Bottom-up
KW - Cross-cultural design
KW - Cross-cultural designs
KW - decolonization
KW - HCI education
KW - Hci educations
KW - ICT4D
KW - Postcolonialism
AU - Danilo Giglitto
AU - Shaimaa Lazem
AU - Anne Preston
AB - We critically engage with CHI communities emerging outside the global North (ArabHCI and AfriCHI) to explore how participation is configured and enacted within sociocultural and political contexts fundamentally different from Western societies. We contribute to recent discussions about postcolonialism and decolonization of HCI by focusing on non-Western future technology designers. Our lens was a course designed to engage Egyptian students with a local yet culturally-distant community to design applications for documenting intangible heritage. Through an action research, the instructors reflect on selected students  activities. Despite deploying a flexible learning curriculum that encourages greater autonomy, the students perceived themselves with less agency than other institutional stakeholders involved in the project. Further, some of them struggled to empathize with the community as the impact of the cultural differences on configuring participation was profound. We discuss the implications of the findings on HCI education and in international cross-cultural design projects.
DO - 10.1145/3173574.3173864
LA - English
N1 - Journal Abbreviation: Conf Hum Fact Comput Syst Proc
N2 - We critically engage with CHI communities emerging outside the global North (ArabHCI and AfriCHI) to explore how participation is configured and enacted within sociocultural and political contexts fundamentally different from Western societies. We contribute to recent discussions about postcolonialism and decolonization of HCI by focusing on non-Western future technology designers. Our lens was a course designed to engage Egyptian students with a local yet culturally-distant community to design applications for documenting intangible heritage. Through an action research, the instructors reflect on selected students  activities. Despite deploying a flexible learning curriculum that encourages greater autonomy, the students perceived themselves with less agency than other institutional stakeholders involved in the project. Further, some of them struggled to empathize with the community as the impact of the cultural differences on configuring participation was profound. We discuss the implications of the findings on HCI education and in international cross-cultural design projects.
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
PY - 2018
SN - 9781450356206 (ISBN); 9781450356213 (ISBN)
TI - In the Eye of the Student: "An Intangible Cultural Heritage Experience, with a Human-Computer Interaction Twist"
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85046942715&doi=10.1145%2f3173574.3173864&partnerID=40&md5=5a06b75e99f2d68378bf98ce785233a8
VL - 2018-April
ER -