Namibia University of Science and Technology

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CHI '23Hand Gesture Recognition +3

Grab It, While You Can: A VR Gesture Evaluation of a Co-Designed Traditional Narrative by Indigenous People

Recent developments in Virtual Reality (VR) applications, such as hand gesture tracking, provide new opportunities to create embodied user experiences. Numerous gesture elicitation studies have been conducted. However, in most instances they lack validation of implemented gestures, as well diversity of participant gro…

CHI '22Hand Gesture Recognition +1

Overcoming Legacy Bias: Re-Designing Gesture Interactions in Virtual Reality With a San Community in Namibia

Recent improvements in hand-tracking technologies support novel applications and developments of gesture interactions in virtual reality (VR). Current implementations are mostly convention-based, originating in a Western technological context, thereby creating a legacy bias in gesture interaction implementations. With…

DIS '20Empowerment of Marginalized Groups +2

Participatory Memory Making: Creating Postcolonial Dialogic Engagements with Namibian Youth

As technologies become pervasive, so does participation in memory making. But in contested environments and discourses, certain voices are rarely included in public memory. In this paper, we explore how everyday postcolonial memories of Namibian youth engaged the wider public into a dialogue revisiting narrative of th…

CHI '18Gender & Race Issues in HCI +2

Intersectionality as a Lens to Promote Equity and Inclusivity within SIGCHI

The ACM SIGCHI community has been at the forefront of addressing issues of equity and inclusivity in the design and use of technology, accounting for various aspects of users’ identities such as gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. With this panel, we wish to explore how we, as SIGCHI, might better target similar goals o…

CHI '18Participatory Design +2

HCI Across Borders: Paving New Pathways

The HCI Across Borders (HCIxB) community has been growing in recent years, thanks in particular to the Development Consortium at CHI 2016 and the HCIxB Symposium at CHI 2017. For CHI 2018, we would like to organize an HCIxB symposium that focuses on building the scholarship potential and quality of junior HCIxB resear…

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2018-2023

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Ethics, Fairness, Social Justice & Inclusion

Empowerment of Marginalized Groups

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Participatory Design

Gesture, Body & Motion Interaction

Hand Gesture Recognition

Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Reality (XR)

Social & Collaborative VR

Culture, Art & Performance

Museum & Cultural Heritage Digitization