Academic Accomplices: Practical Strategies for Research Justice

This workshop brings together folks currently or interested in becoming academic accomplices, or scholars committed to leveraging resources and power to support the justice work of their community collaborators. Academic accomplices are necessary for research justice-research that materially challenges inequity-and owe it to community partners to challenge underlying oppressive structure and practices as perpetuated through academic research. The goal of this workshop is to discuss concrete strategies for challenging oppression through research methodologies, physical or institutional resources, and/or pedagogy. This workshop will generate practical strategies for research justice for DIS and HCI scholars

Bottom-Up Organizing with Tools from On High: Understanding the Data Practices of Labor Organizers

This paper provides insight into the use of data tools in the American labor movement by analyzing the practices of staff employed by unions to organize alongside union members. We interviewed 23 field-level staff organizers about how they use data tools to evaluate membership. We find that organizers work around and outside of these tools to develop access to data for union members and calibrate data representations to meet local needs. Organizers mediate between local and central versions of the data, and draw on their contextual knowledge to challenge campaign strategy. We argue that networked data tools can compound field organizers' lack of discretion, making it more difficult for unions to assess and act on the will of union membership. We show how the use of networked data tools can lead to less accurate data, and discuss how bottom-up approaches to data gathering can support more accurate membership assessments

Community, Group and Individual: A Framework for Designing Community Technologies

In this paper, I draw on sociology a­­­­­­­­­­­­nd urban studies literature to describe a framework with three components that should be considered when designing community technologies: community, group, and individual. I use this framework to discuss current community technologies and describe three best practices vital for the success of community technologies: 1) increasing social cohesion and social capital, 2) engaging small groups of community members, and 3) encouraging participation through interest-based technologies. I use an example of a community technology to illustrate how each of these dimensions can be incorporated into the development of new technologies

"I have nothing to hide; thus nothing to fear": Defining a Framework for Examining the 'Nothing to Hide' Persona

ABSTRACT "I've got nothing to hide" is a common response when people are asked their view on government surveillance and online tracking for the sake of national security and interest-based advertising, respectively. The 'nothing to hide' (NtH) privacy view, characterized by Solove, raises new and important research questions scarcely explored. By clearly conceptualizing the NtH persona, the focus shifts away from whether the person 'is' concerned about privacy, to focusing more on 'why' concern may (or may not) be needed and how privacy and security scholars and practitioners can better understand and design for this consumer. In this paper, we present a framework to help conceptualize and identify the NtH consumer. We then describe a method to translate the findings from this framework into actionable information that informs design using privacy personas, which are archetypal characters who share common goals, attitudes, and behaviors around privacy. A NtH persona can help to communicate the NtH perspective, prompt new research questions, and positively influence technology design

Researcher wellbeing and best practices in emotionally demanding research

HCI researchers increasingly conduct emotionally demanding research in a variety of different contexts. Though scholarship has begun to address the experiences of HCI researchers conducting this work, there is a need to develop guidelines and best practices for researcher wellbeing. In this one-day CHI workshop, we will bring together a group of HCI researchers across sectors and career levels who conduct emotionally demanding research to discuss their experiences, self-care practices, and strategies for research. Based on these discussions, we will work with workshop attendees to develop best practices and guidelines for researcher wellbeing in the context of emotionally demanding HCI research; launch a repository of community-sourced resources for researcher wellbeing; document the experiences of HCI researchers conducting emotionally demanding research; and establish a community of HCI researchers conducting this type of work

What if?.. : Fabulating African HCI Futures within the Veil of HCI

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners (African and otherwise) engaging with diverse communities and industries to discuss the geopolitics of knowledge production in computing research and design. Our proposal builds on existing works that have explored the modalities of the knowledge economy - particularly as knowledge is created, legitimized, and circulated as objective truth via the exercise of power. For example, engaging indigenous communities in conferences and knowledge fairs have sought to challenge disciplinary silos and boundaries imposed on non-Western academics and practitioners. This workshop, as a platform for interaction and discussion with no “sage on the stage”, is the first of its kind within AfriCHI and it seeks to explore and promote more subtle discussions about HCI knowledge production and dissemination practices