Jennifer Webster

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#3194

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‘In a Pinch, If You Have Nothing’: An Exploration of Money-Making Apps in Homeless Shelters

Unhoused individuals in U.S. urban shelters increasingly leverage internet technologies for income-earning and financial management. We investigate app-mediated work used by these communities including online gig, shift, or microtask labor that reduce barriers to earning, but may be unreliable or present other risks…

CSCW '254th AuthorHonorable MentionDesigning for Privacy

Participatory Design in Precarity: “Smart” Technologies for Tiny House Villages

In tiny house villages (THVs), land ownership, local regulations such as zoning, and management frameworks affect how formerly unhoused residents can leverage and augment their built infrastructure with ``smart'' technologies. These dynamics influence THV residents’ lived experiences, creating both constraints and op…

CSCW '194th AuthorTechnological inclusion and non/use

"My cousin bought the phone for me. I never go to mobile shops": The Role of Family in Women's Technological Inclusion in Islamic Culture

The intersection of Islam and gender affect technological and social interactions for Muslim women in significant ways and remains an understudied domain for CSCW and related fields. Building on 73 qualitative interviews with low-income women in Punjab, Pakistan, we analyze the complexity of family relationships and t…

CHI '185th+ AuthorDeveloping Countries & HCI for Development (HCI4D) +1

eKichabi: Information Access through Basic Mobile Phones in Rural Tanzania

This paper presents eKichabi, a tool for retrieving contact information for agriculture-related enterprises in Tanzania. eKichabi is an Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) application which users can access through basic mobile phones. We describe our focus groups, a design iteration, deployment in four v…

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