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

  • Vlachokyriakos, Vasilis (Recipient), Crivallero, Clara (Recipient), Wright, Peter (Recipient), Karamagioli, Evika (Recipient), Staiou, Eleni Revekka (Recipient), Gouscos, Dimitris (Recipient), Thorpe, Rowan (Recipient), Kruger, Antonio (Recipient), Schoning, Johannes (Recipient), Jones, Matt (Recipient), Lawson, Shaun (Recipient) & Olivier, Patrick (Recipient)

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Description

HCI, Solidarity Movements and the Solidarity Economy

The financial crisis and austerity politics in Europe has had a devastating impact on public services, social security and vulnerable populations. Greek civil society responded quickly by establishing solidarity structures aimed at helping vulnerable citizens to meet their basic needs and empower them to co-create an anti-austerity movement. While digital technology and social media played an important role in the initiation of the movement, it has a negligible role in the movement's on-going practices. Through embedded work with several solidarity structures in Greece, we have begun to understand the "solidarity economy" (SE) as an experiment in direct democracy and self-organization. Working with a range of solidarity structures we are developing a vision for a "Solidarity HCI" committed to designing to support personal, social and institutional transformation through processes of agonistic pluralism and contestation, where the aims and objectives of the SE are continuously re-formulated and put into practice
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 2017
LocationColorado Convention Center, Denver, United States of AmericaShow on map
Period6 May 2017 → 11 May 2017