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TY - GEN
T1 - Enough with Newness
T2 - Participatory Design Conference 2024, Sibu, Malaysia, August 2024
AU - Adamu, Muhammad
AU - Lazem, Shaimaa
N1 - © 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
PY - 2024/3/26
Y1 - 2024/3/26
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
VL - Vol. 2
BT - In Participatory Design Conference 2024 (PDC '24 Vol. 2), August 11-16, 2024, Sibu, Malaysia.
PB - ACM
Y2 - 11 August 2024 through 16 August 2024
ER -