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XXVIII.2 March - April 2021
Page: 56
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Lessons from Latin America: Embracing horizontality to reconstruct HCI as a pluriverse


Authors:
Marisol Wong-Villacres, Adriana Garcia, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Mayra Machuca, Marianela Felice, Laura Gaytán-Lugo, Oscar Lemus, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Monica Perusquía-Hernández

The field of HCI has increasingly grown concerned with designing technologies to address societal challenges across the globe. Recognizing that HCI is essentially a Eurocentric field of knowledge, scholars within the field have produced explicit attempts to include a wide array of people, research topics, and design practices, including those from the Global South. Most of these attempts have centered on making the "different knowledge" of the Global South more salient for the field (e.g., leveraging postcolonial, decolonial, and feminist theories from Global South authors; providing courses and tracks in HCI programs and conferences addressing Global South—related topics; and…




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