The number of hackathon events worldwide has nearly quadrupled in the last five years.
Despite exponential growth across diverse industries and increasing interest across …

The education sector is constantly progressing its competency paradigm by establishing a
nexus between practical, theoretical, and technical dimensions of teaching and learning. In …

There is a broad impetus across policy and institutional domains to expand public
engagement and involvement with emerging technology research and innovation. Yet …

Hackathons are time-bounded collaborative events which have become a global
phenomenon adopted by both researchers and practitioners in a plethora of contexts …

Maker culture and DIY practices are central to democratizing the design of technology;
enabling non-designers (future end-users) to actively participate in the design process …

There are several ways in making learning activities more engaging and interesting to
computer science students. In addition to traditional higher education (curriculum, project …

Hackathons are events that originated as competitions for programmers but transformed into
project-oriented events given in different contexts and with different sets of goals. Despite …

This paper investigates how the conceptions of gender in memes are central to socializing at
hackathons. Drawing on a multi-sited ethnography of seven hackathons, I provide insight …

Our work builds knowledge on gender-neutral hackathons in educational context.
Hackathon itself is an intensive project-based event, requiring participants to make results in …

Recent HCI research has addressed emerging approaches for public engagement. One
such public-facing method which has gained popularity over the previous decade has been …