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Enough with Newness: On Re-centering African “Users” in HCI Research and Design

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Forthcoming
Publication date26/03/2024
Host publicationIn Participatory Design Conference 2024 (PDC '24 Vol. 2), August 11-16, 2024, Sibu, Malaysia.
PublisherACM
Number of pages7
VolumeVol. 2
<mark>Original language</mark>English
EventParticipatory Design Conference 2024, Sibu, Malaysia, August 2024 - Sibu, Malaysia
Duration: 11/08/202416/08/2024
https://pdc2024.org/

Conference

ConferenceParticipatory Design Conference 2024, Sibu, Malaysia, August 2024
Abbreviated titlePDC '24
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CitySibu
Period11/08/2416/08/24
Internet address

Conference

ConferenceParticipatory Design Conference 2024, Sibu, Malaysia, August 2024
Abbreviated titlePDC '24
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CitySibu
Period11/08/2416/08/24
Internet address

Abstract

Researchers across disciplines have established how capitalist structures and relations have, by design, rendered the past and the future unequally distributed. If such claims could be further strengthened in HCI, then how is it that we uncritically embrace the asymmetrical outlook of the past in thinking/designing with the emerging African user? Building on the rhetoric of ‘Enough with’ across HCI, this narrative essay explores the subtle materialities and performativities of user-centric approaches in African HCI. Drawing on insights from design projects across Egypt and Nigeria, the case we present denotes how the cottage industry culture of importation and adaptation of designerly newness has failed to embrace the worldviews of African users, as often, the African user, we establish, is still an “Outlier” in current design paradigms.

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© ACM, 2024. This is the author's accepted version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published at https://doi.org/10.1145/3661455.3669866