User Centered Design and International Development: Participant Support held on April 28, 2007 in San Jose, CA

桌面隐喻对于不使用或不重视桌面的社区意味着什么？ QWERTY键盘在语言中没有“Q”、“W”、“E”、“R”、“T”或“Y”的社区中表现如何？ 在一个技术不是为一个人而持有而是由整个社区共享的环境中，个人计算机的意义是什么？ 计算机应用程序和PC设备传统上是由西方高收入人群设计的。 但今天，互联网和联网计算机已成为一个真正的全球现象，触及许多最偏远和边缘化的社区。 PI正在组织的以用户为中心的设计和国际开发研讨会将于4月28日星期六在圣何塞与ACM 2007计算系统中的人为因素会议（CHI 07）合作举行。 这是CHI 07会议的官方研讨会。 该研讨会将探讨国际发展背景下的交互设计，特别是将解决世界上那些经常被当前系统和应用程序设计师边缘化的地区的交互设计。 PI认为，为了扩大信息和通信技术设计的现有做法的范围，这些技术的设计应该与边缘化社区一起，为他们设计，并为他们设计，他计划在讲习班讨论中成为中心舞台。 讲习班将提供一个论坛，以交流经验，探讨发达国家和发展中国家之间的差异，发展新的伙伴关系，并相互学习经验。 美国国家科学基金会的资助将使大约10名来自低收入国家的国际参与者能够参加，否则这些国家的参与是不可能的。一年一度的CHI会议由计算机械协会的计算机-人交互特别兴趣小组（ACM SIGCHI）赞助，是一个介绍和讨论人机交互（HCI）研究和实践的领先国际论坛。 来自世界各地的约2，400名HCI专业人员参加了会议。 在会议上提出的研究论文是heavily-refereded和广泛引用，他们构成了一些最受科学尊重的研究出版物在HCI领域。更广泛的影响：HCI文献的审查暴露了广泛的知识差距，存在于计算机交互和计算机技术的发展影响的研究问题之间的低收入国家。 通过第一次将这两个学科的许多世界领导者聚集在一起，PI预计这次研讨会将有助于创建一个知识社区，并围绕这些主题领域发展知识动力（PI报告说，他已经收到了来自世界各地的60多份意见书）。 研讨会的成果将在《信息技术与国际发展》杂志上发表;此外，PI预计将在领先的HCI杂志（如《互动》）上发表研讨会摘要，并可能在CHI 08会议上举办后续研讨会。

What does the desktop metaphor mean for communities that do not use or value desks? How does the QWERTY keyboard perform in communities whose language has no "Q", "W", "E", "R", "T", nor "Y"? What is the point of a personal computer in a context where technologies are not held for a person but are shared by a whole community? Computer applications and PC appliances have traditionally been designed by and for Western high-income populations. But today the Internet and internet-enabled computers have become a truly global phenomenon reaching out to many of the most remote and marginalized communities. The User Centered Design and International Development workshop that the PI is organizing will be held on Saturday, April 28, in cooperation with the ACM 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 07) in San Jose. This is an official workshop of the CHI 07 conference. The workshop will explore interaction design in the context of international development, and in particular will address interaction design for parts of the world that are often marginalized by current systems and applications designers. The PI believes that to extend the boundaries of existing practice in designing information and communication technologies, their design should be with, for, and of the marginalized communities he plans to set centre stage in the workshop discussions. The workshop will provide a forum to exchange experiences, explore differences between developed and developing world contexts, develop new partnerships, and learn from each other's experiences. NSF funding will enable approximately ten international participants to attend from low-income countries, from which participation would otherwise be impossible.The annual CHI conference, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI), is a leading international forum for the presentation and discussion of human-computer interaction (HCI) research and practice. It is attended by approximately 2,400 HCI professionals from around the world. Research papers presented at the conference are heavily-refereed and widely cited; they constitute some of the most scientifically respected research publications in the field of HCI.Broader Impacts: A review of the HCI literature exposes the broad intellectual gap that exists between problems of computer interaction and studies of the development impact of computer technologies in low-income countries. By assembling together many of the world leaders in these two disciplines for the first time, the PI expects that this workshop will be instrumental in creating an epistemic community and developing intellectual momentum around these topic areas (the PI reports that he has already have been overwhelmed with over 60 submissions from around the world). Outcomes from the workshop will be reported in the journal Information Technology and International Development; additionally, the PI expects to publish a workshop summary in a leading HCI journal such as Interactions, and possibly also to hold a follow-on workshop at the CHI 08 conference.