Authors:
Hafeni Mthoko, Muhammad Adamu, Shaimaa Lazem
In 2006, Jonathan Grudin posited that the field of HCI might have no home or many homes [1]. This raises a range of questions about the status of HCI as either a metadiscipline, an eclectic discipline, or an interdisciplinarity. The HCI narrative in Africa is even more sporadic, with the continued tensions faced when importing and uncritically adopting HCI methods, approaches, and techniques to technology design projects there. Asserting an alternative constitution of identities in HCI, the subprogram of African HCI came about as a community of researchers and practitioners designing and evaluating interactive systems for African communities [2].…
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