Precarious interventions: Designing for ecologies of care

E Kaziunas, MS Klinkman, MS Ackerman - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present ethnographic account of people's everyday behavioral health
experiences in the city of Jackson, Michigan to explore community forms of care work …

LGBTQ futures and participatory design: Investigating visibility, community, and the future of future workshops

J Hardy, C Geier, S Vargas, R Doll… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents the findings from a series of participatory design workshops with LGBTQ
people living in the rural Midwestern United States. Using future workshops as a method, we …

Making civic initiatives last: Ecosystems, technologies, approaches and challenges

NB Hansen, G Klerks, M Menendez Blanco… - … Publication of the 2020 …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
HCI and design research has turned toward exploring methods, technologies, processes for
societal impact, and do so by intervening in the real world and designing for, with and by …

HCI research on agriculture: competing sociotechnical imaginaries, definitions, and opportunities

O Doggett, K Bronson, R Soden - … of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Agriculture is foundational for food security on our planet. Considering climate change and
other pressures on food production, HCI scholars have increasingly begun to examine how …

As a squash plant grows: social textures of sparse internet connectivity in rural and tribal communities

ME Duarte, M Vigil-Hayes, E Zegura… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Researching and designing Internet infrastructure solutions in rural and tribal contexts
requires reciprocal relationships between researchers and community partners …

Digital technology at the edge of capitalism: Experiences from the Brazilian Amazon rainforest

DDC Leal, M Krüger, VTE Teles, CATE Teles… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
It is sometimes argued that there is hardly a place in the world in the 21st century left
untouched by global capitalism [111, 112]. Even so, some places remain at the periphery …

Seamless visions, seamful realities: anticipating rural infrastructural fragility in early design of digital agriculture

G Rubambiza, P Sengers… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Rural infrastructure is known to be more prone to breakdown than urban infrastructure. This
paper explores how the fragility of rural infrastructure is reproduced through the process of …

Rural islandness as a lens for (rural) HCI

S Robinson, NJ Bidwell, R Cibin, C Linehan… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This article contributes to research that aims to better understand and describe the rural
context for rural computing. We argue that the particularities of rurality are heightened by the …

[PDF][PDF] Communication about sensors and communication through sensors: localizing the Internet of Things in rural communities

C Butkowski, NK Chan, T Berniker… - Journal of Computer …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) sensor networks are an emerging technology at the center of
the datafication and optimization of far-reaching environmental infrastructures—from “smart …

TikTok as a Stage: Performing Rural# farmqueer Utopias on TikTok

H Biggs, A Marcotte, S Bardzell - … of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we examine how an under-studied group in HCI, rural queer farmers, use the
social media platform TikTok to perform rural queer utopias. Queer utopia, coined by queer …