Lara Houston, Steven J. Jackson, Daniela K. Rosner, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed et al.
This paper examines the question of "values in repair" -- the distinct forms of meaning and care that may be built into human-technology interactions through individual and collective acts of repair. Our work draws on research in HCI and the social sciences and findings from ethnographic studies in ...
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Steven J. Jackson, Nova Ahmed, Hasan Shahid Ferdous et al.
Public sexual harassment has emerged as a large and growing concern in urban Bangladesh, with deep and damaging implications for gender security, justice, and rights of public participation. In this paper we describe an integrated program of ethnographic and design work meant to understand and addre...
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nusrat Jahan Mim, Steven J. Jackson
This paper explores discrepancies between the founding assumptions of mobile and ubiquitous computing in the western world, and the starkly different experiences of mobility and infrastructure to be found in many post-colonial environments. Based on a field study of forced mobility and technology us...
Steven J. Jackson, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat
Acts of technology maintenance and repair constitute important and often overlooked moments in the operation of complex interactive systems. They also provide fresh insight on a series of problems -- innovation, learning, and sustainability -- long core to HCI concern. This paper builds on original ...
Madhav Joshi, SungYong Lee, Roger Mac Ginty
AbstractThis article assesses the extent to which the liberal peace (the dominant form of internationally supported peacemaking) actually deserves the sobriquet 'liberal peace'. In recent years, an intense debate emerged on this question as critics of the critique of the liberal peace have sought to...
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Steven J. Jackson, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat
Practices of technology repair in developing country contexts play crucial and often overlooked roles in supporting ICTD goals of access and sustainability. They also constitute complex and neglected sites of technical skill, knowledge, and learning. Building on original ethnographic fieldwork, this...
Nicolin Datz, Marianna Rachmiel
The 34th annual meeting of the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD), held in Durban, South Africa, was entitled ‘Advancing Diabetes Care’ and was aimed at reflecting the need for continuous improvement in care for the world’s children with diabetes. In his opening rema...
Felix Achana, Stavros Petrou, Jason Madan, Kamran Khan et al.
BACKGROUND: The 'Prehospital Assessment of the Role of Adrenaline: Measuring the Effectiveness of Drug Administration In Cardiac Arrest' (PARAMEDIC2) trial showed that adrenaline improves overall survival, but not neurological outcomes. We sought to determine the within-trial and lifetime health and...
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Maruf Zaber, Mehrab Bin Morshed, Md. Habibullah Bin Ismail et al.
The design of accessible mobile phone interfaces for low literate people usually assumes an individual model of use, and are often limited by the low technical expertise and/or cognitive ability of users in marginal communities of developing countries. Drawing on previous ICTD scholarship around sha...
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Steven J. Jackson, Maruf Zaber, Mehrab Bin Morshed et al.
Making technology accessible to low literate users and communities is an important challenge of ICTD research and practice. Past work in the field has addressed the problem of effective UI (User Interface) design under low literacy conditions, exploring graphic or audio alternatives to text-centered...
Erik Pihl, Eva Alfredsson, Magnus Bengtsson, Kathryn Bowen et al.
Non-technical summary We summarize some of the past year's most important findings within climate change-related research. New research has improved our understanding of Earth's sensitivity to carbon dioxide, finds that permafrost thaw could release more carbon emissions than expected and that the u...
S.G. Lannon, Mike Stevenson, Steven T. White, Joanne F. J. Logan et al.
Background: Charles Bonnet Syndrome is defined as visual hallucinations in psychologically normal people and has been associated with low vision for over two hundred years. Objectives: To evaluate the prevalence and complexity of visual hallucinations in patients with low vision. Design: A cross-sec...
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
Abstract In this essay the author gives an historical overview of Islam in America from its earliest beginnings in pre‐Columbia America until the present. Details on the origins, growth and spread of the three largest American Muslim groups – African American, Arab and South Asian – are explored as ...
A. Jonathan Jackson, Giuliana Silvestri, Michael Stevenson, Janet Sinton et al.
In this paper we highlight the impact which the disruption of secondary care ophthalmic services, resulting from COVID‐19, has had on Sight Impairment (SI) and Severe Sight Impairment (SSI) certification in Northern Ireland.
Steven J. Jackson, Adnan Morshed, Hélène Frichot, Lucy Benjamin et al.
Repair and release may seem locked in opposition — one focused on holding things (places, buildings, objects) together and the other focused on relinquishing our hold on things, and allowing them to become something else. I sense, though, that we will need to cultivate both sets of skills in the yea...