Nicola J Bidwell

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From Periphery to Presence: Authorship, Venues, and Education in African HCI

HCI in Africa is growing yet fragmented and underrepresented globally. We map 2002–2024 activity via a bibliometric scan of 500+ papers (~300 venues) and an institutional survey in 11 countries, situating results by population, connectivity, and policy readiness, and including work outside HCI labels (e.g., NGOs, tech…

CHI '223rd AuthorHonorable MentionMental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +1

From Treatment to Healing: Envisioning a Decolonial Digital Mental Health

The field of digital mental health is making strides in the application of technology to broaden access to care. We critically examine how these technology-mediated forms of care might amplify historical injustices, and erase minoritized experiences and expressions of mental distress and illness. We draw on decolonial…

CSCW '211st AuthorSustainable Infrastructures for Rural and Local Computing

Being Regulated: Licence to Imagine New Technology for Community Radio

Licencing frameworks are embedded with sociotechnical imaginaries that limit the potential for networked technologies to make traditional media forms, like radio, more inclusive. We implemented a prototype platform that aims to enable more people to run small radio stations by using internet and mobile networks to avo…

DIS '213rd AuthorSustainable HCI +2

Land, Water and Sun: Tuning into Socio-Ecological Relations in Radio Design

Recent HCI scholarship has critiqued anthropocentrism in design as contributing to the ecological crisis. The current paper contributes theoretically and empirically to this area, adopting the lens of Socio-Ecological Relations, inspired by Environmental History and STS. We argue that a socio-ecological lens can offer…

CHI '211st AuthorContext-Aware Computing +2

A Right Time to Give: Beyond Saving Time in Automated Conditional Donations

Smart Donations is a blockchain-based platform that offers users ‘contracts’ that donate funds to certain causes in response to real-world events e.g., whenever an earthquake is detected or an activist tweets about refugees. We designed Smart donations with Oxfam Australia, trialed it for 8-weeks with 86 people, recor…

CHI '192nd AuthorDistributed Team Collaboration +1

Talking about Chat at Work in the Global South: An Ethnographic Study of Chat Use in India and Kenya

In this paper, we examine how two chat apps fit into the communication ecosystem of six large distributed enterprises, in India and Kenya. From the perspective of management, these chat apps promised to foster greater communication and awareness between workers in the field, and between fieldworkers and the enterprise…

CHI '18CorrespondingWorkplace Wellbeing & Work Stress +1

Silent SIG: Reflection in action at CHI

The organisers of this SIG wish to disrupt CHI’s frenetic schedule by offering attendees time and space for collective silence and shared group reflection. Our aim in doing so is to put into action some of the theories and methods already being used in and by the HCI community—e.g. mindfulness [3], reflective design […

CHI '18CorrespondingTechnology Ethics & Critical HCI +1

Untold Stories: Working with Third Sector Organisations

We aim to bring together a number of researchers to share their stories and discuss opportunities for improvement in research practice with Third Sector Organisations such as charities, NGOs, and other not-for-profit organisations. Through these discussions, we will develop a framework for good practice, providing gui…

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