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Designing for Homeless Young People: Precaution in Ubiquitous Computing
Jill Palzkill WoelferDavid G. Hendry
Globi-Comp Workshop: Taking Ubicomp Beyond Developed WorldsSeptember 30, 2009
The University District
The University of Washington
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Built environment
Actors and Infrastructure
Actors and Non-Digital Infrastructure
Digital Infrastructure
Actors and Digital Infrastructure
Hidden from view
Hidden from view
Living out in public
What would happen if we turned the “Flier” into a pervasive digital resource?
The Scenario
Acronyms and hours of service*
Program descriptions*
*Information redacted to protect confidentiality
A public kiosk?
Cell phones and web browsers?
Semi-private confidential resource turned into freely-available public information
A Precautionary Stance
A young person may be able to find a service agency, but the young person may then be “found”
One designer’s precaution is another’s missed opportunity for development…
Jill Palzkill WoelferDavid G. HendryThe Information SchoolUniversity of [email protected]
Know What, then Know Howhttp://www.ischool.washington.edu/researchStories/ctop_story.html
Woelfer, J. P., Yeung, M. W-M., Erdmann, C. G., & Hendry, D. G. (2008). Value considerations in an information ecology: Printed materials, service agencies, and homeless young people. In A. Grove (Ed.), Proceedings of the 71st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST AM ’08) (pp. 248-256). Silver Spring: ASIS. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122420645/abstract
Woelfer, J. P., & Hendry, D. G. Creating a community technology center for homeless young people: Preliminary experience report. Presented at The 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, Workshop on Digital Technologies and Marginalized Youth: Reducing the Gap (Como, Italy, June 3-5, 2009). http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~hourcade/idc-workshop/woelfer_pdf
Woelfer, J. P., & Hendry, D. G. (in press). Stabilizing homeless young people with information and place. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122499090/abstract
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