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？在语言中没有“Q”、“W”、“E”、“R”、“T”和“Y”的社区，QWERTY键盘的表现如何？在一个技术不是为个人而拥有，而是为整个社区所共享的环境中，个人电脑的意义何在？传统上，计算机应用程序和个人电脑设备是由西方高收入人群设计的，也是为他们设计的。但今天，互联网和能上网的电脑已经成为一种真正的全球现象，触及了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日星期六与在圣何塞举行的ACM 2007年计算系统中的人为因素会议（CHI 07）合作举行。这是CHI 07会议的官方工作坊。本次研讨会将探讨国际发展背景下的交互设计，特别是将讨论世界上那些经常被当前系统和应用程序设计师边缘化的部分地区的交互设计。PI认为，为了扩展现有信息和通信技术设计实践的边界，他们的设计应该与边缘化社区一起，为他们服务，并为他们服务，他计划将这些社区置于研讨会讨论的中心舞台。研讨会将提供一个交流经验的论坛，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。国家科学基金会的资助将使来自低收入国家的大约10名国际参与者能够参加，否则这些国家是不可能参加的。一年一度的人机交互会议由美国计算机协会人机交互特别兴趣小组（ACM SIGCHI）主办，是展示和讨论人机交互（HCI）研究和实践的主要国际论坛。来自世界各地的约2400名HCI专业人士参加了会议。在会议上发表的研究论文被大量审阅和广泛引用；它们构成了HCI领域中一些最受科学尊重的研究出版物。更广泛的影响：对HCI文献的回顾揭示了低收入国家计算机交互问题与计算机技术发展影响研究之间存在的广泛知识差距。通过首次将这两个学科的许多世界领袖聚集在一起，PI希望这次研讨会将有助于创建一个认知社区，并围绕这些主题领域发展智力动力（PI报告说他已经收到了来自世界各地的60多份提交）。讲习班的成果将发表在《信息技术与国际发展》杂志上；此外，PI预计将在《交互》（Interactions）等领先的HCI期刊上发表研讨会总结，并可能在CHI 08会议上举行后续研讨会。

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.