TY - GEN
T1 - Reciprocal research
T2 - 2020 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2020
AU - Hanrahan, Benjamin V.
AU - Ma, Ning F.
AU - Betanzos, Eber
AU - Savage, Saiph
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Owner/Author.
PY - 2020/6/17
Y1 - 2020/6/17
N2 - Researchers in various fields have been discussing the ethics of field research, particularly their responsibility to provide concrete benefits to participants. For example, when designing technology for their participants the discussion has centered around how and whether the technology benefits participants. We argue, that design projects can be reoriented towards benefiting participants from the outset, by slightly changing the process, activities, and initial object of design. Focusing instead on how to immediately impact the goals of the participants, designers can then progressively introduce technology to scale their impact. In this paper we present an ongoing instantiation of this process in rural West Virginia, where we have been teaching computer classes at a local library. We have found that our participants and partners are more appreciative of our efforts, and that the data we are gathering is just as, if not more, rich than previous design methodologies that we have used.
AB - Researchers in various fields have been discussing the ethics of field research, particularly their responsibility to provide concrete benefits to participants. For example, when designing technology for their participants the discussion has centered around how and whether the technology benefits participants. We argue, that design projects can be reoriented towards benefiting participants from the outset, by slightly changing the process, activities, and initial object of design. Focusing instead on how to immediately impact the goals of the participants, designers can then progressively introduce technology to scale their impact. In this paper we present an ongoing instantiation of this process in rural West Virginia, where we have been teaching computer classes at a local library. We have found that our participants and partners are more appreciative of our efforts, and that the data we are gathering is just as, if not more, rich than previous design methodologies that we have used.
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U2 - 10.1145/3392561.3397585
DO - 10.1145/3392561.3397585
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85086891030
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2020
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 17 June 2020 through 20 June 2020
ER -