TY - GEN
T1 - Can you do good and do well? Exploring HCI careers for societal impact
AU - Jain, Anupam
AU - Gerber, Elizabeth
AU - Kam, Matthew
AU - Luk, Rowena
AU - Best, Michael
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - International development and initiatives towards societal impact have been slowly gaining momentum in the HCI forums over the last few years. A subset of HCI researchers and practitioners worldwide have been working to design, build, evaluate and deploy solutions for the 80% of the world which lives on less than $10 a day[1] and broadly for humanitarian efforts that improves people's lives at large. However, a large section of the HCI community is still not directly involved in this space even if they are interested, because of concerns like job uncertainty, lack of awareness of avenues to help, time availability and perhaps some delusions about the space. This panel brings together panelists who are HCI professionals trying to produce social impact from four different domains (non-profit, for-profit social enterprise, academic research and corporate research) and are from different geographies and stages in their careers. The panel explores how HCI researchers and practitioners can consider HCI-related careers in international development and other societal impact initiatives, introduce the CHI community to different means through which they could make meaningful contributions, discuss why it may be imminent for HCI specialists to apply their expertise to this space, cite and discuss some real world stories and try to answer as many queries from people who would like to get involved either as volunteers or for full-time careers.
AB - International development and initiatives towards societal impact have been slowly gaining momentum in the HCI forums over the last few years. A subset of HCI researchers and practitioners worldwide have been working to design, build, evaluate and deploy solutions for the 80% of the world which lives on less than $10 a day[1] and broadly for humanitarian efforts that improves people's lives at large. However, a large section of the HCI community is still not directly involved in this space even if they are interested, because of concerns like job uncertainty, lack of awareness of avenues to help, time availability and perhaps some delusions about the space. This panel brings together panelists who are HCI professionals trying to produce social impact from four different domains (non-profit, for-profit social enterprise, academic research and corporate research) and are from different geographies and stages in their careers. The panel explores how HCI researchers and practitioners can consider HCI-related careers in international development and other societal impact initiatives, introduce the CHI community to different means through which they could make meaningful contributions, discuss why it may be imminent for HCI specialists to apply their expertise to this space, cite and discuss some real world stories and try to answer as many queries from people who would like to get involved either as volunteers or for full-time careers.
KW - HCI career
KW - HCI4D
KW - ICTD
KW - International Development
KW - Non profits
KW - Social enterprise
KW - Social impact
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U2 - 10.1145/2559206.2579404
DO - 10.1145/2559206.2579404
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84900559207
SN - 9781450324748
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 1105
EP - 1110
BT - CHI EA 2014
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2014
Y2 - 26 April 2014 through 1 May 2014
ER -