@inproceedings{8aa833d15c58473090b2f76b5a9334b2,
title = "Al Osool: Understanding information behavior for community development at Za'atari Syrian refugee camp",
abstract = "Za'atari Syrian Refugee Camp in Jordan is home to about 83,000 people fleeing the violence in Syria. Building on a multi-year engagement at Za'atari, we developed an information-enabled community engagement approach to identify and address challenges at the camp, engage community members in problem solving and increase self- reliance. Using HCI mixed methods, we facilitated the creation of a community-commissioned database of household assets, being implemented by the UNHCR with potential for adoption in other refugee camps. Our main contributions are participatory approaches to understanding information behaviors within a fragmented social fabric in high-constraint, low-affordance settings resulting from armed conflict. This work generates insights valuable for researchers and designers working with refugees.",
author = "Fisher, {Karen E.} and Eiad Yafi and Ying Xu and Carleen Maitland",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.; 9th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, C and T 2019 ; Conference date: 03-06-2019 Through 07-06-2019",
year = "2019",
month = jun,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1145/3328320.3328395",
language = "English (US)",
series = "ACM International Conference Proceeding Series",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "273--282",
editor = "Florian Cech and Hilda Tellioglu",
booktitle = "C and T 2019 - 9th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Conference Proceedings",
}
