Browsing Informatics by Author "Bidwell, N.J. (Nicola)"

Browsing Informatics by Author "Bidwell, N.J. (Nicola)"

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  • Black skins white masks by Franz Fanon 
    Bidwell, N.J. (Nicola) (Association for Computing Machinery, 2016-05)
    "A feeling of inferiority?" asks Frantz Fanon, in his essay "The Fact of Blackness." "No," he says, "a feeling of nonexistence." Recently, South African students protesting for #Rhodes Must Fall joined a succession of ...
  • Moving the centre to design social media in rural Africa 
    Bidwell, N.J. (Nicola) (Springer, 2016-02)
    Efforts to design voice-based, social media platforms for low-literacy communities in developing countries have not widened access to information in the ways intended. This article links this to who describes the relations ...
  • Peer-to-peer in the workplace : a view from the road 
    Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque; Bidwell, N.J. (Nicola); Zade, Himanshu; Muralidhar, Srihari H.; Dhareshwar, Anupama; Karachiwala, Baneen; Cedrick, Tandong N.; O'Neill, Jacki (Association for Computing Machinery, 2016)
    This paper contributes to the growing literature on peer-topeer (P2P) applications through an ethnographic study of auto-rickshaw drivers in Bengaluru, India. We describe how the adoption of a P2P application, Ola, which ...
  • Reflections on the NatureCHI workshop series : unobtrusive user experiences with technology in nature 
    Hakkila, Jonna; Bidwell, N.J. (Nicola); Cheverst, Keith; Colley, Ashley; Kosmalla, Felix (IGI Global, 2018-07)
    Being in nature is often regarded to be calming, relaxing and purifying. While technology has the potential to support engagement with nature, developing systems that provide support in an unobtrusive manner holds many ...
  • Toward an Afro-Centric indigenous HCI paradigm 
    Winschiers-Theophilus, Heike; Bidwell, N.J. (Nicola) (Taylor and Francis, 2013)
    Current HCI paradigms are deeply rooted in a western epistemology which attests its partiality and bias of its embedded assumptions, values, definitions, techniques and derived frameworks and models.Thus tensions created ...
  • Walking and the social life of solar charging in rural Africa 
    Bidwell, N.J. (Nicola); Siya, Masbulele; Marsden, Gary; Tucker, William D.; Tshemese, M; Gaven, N.; Ntlangano, S.; Robinson, Simon; Eglinton, Kristen (ACM / Association for Computing Machinery, 2013-09)
    We consider practices that sustain social and physical environments beyond those dominating sustainable HCI discourse. We describe links between walking, sociality, and using resources in a case study of community-based, ...