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Best paper honorable mention award: ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems

  • Taylor, Nick (Recipient), Cheverst, Keith (Recipient), Wright, Peter (Recipient) & Olivier, Patrick (Recipient)

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Description

Leaving the wild: lessons from community technology handovers

As research increasingly turns to work 'in the wild' to design and evaluate technologies under real-world conditions, little consideration has been given to what happens when research ends. In many cases, users are heavily involved in the design process and encouraged to integrate the resulting technologies into their lives before they are withdrawn, while in some cases technologies are being left in place after research concludes. Often, little is done to assess the impact and legacy of these deployments. In this paper, we return to two examples in which we designed technologies with the involvement of communities and examine what steps were taken to ensure their long-term viability and what happened following the departure of researchers. From these examples, we provide guidelines for planning and executing technology handovers when conducting research with communities.
Degree of recognitionInternational
Granting OrganisationsACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)

Awarded at event

Event titleInternational Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2013
LocationParis, FranceShow on map
Period27 Apr 2013 → 2 May 2013