Community Voice as Data: Affordances of Participatory Videos for International Program Development

Saha, M., Bartindale, T., Varghese, D., Lindsay, S. , Richardson, D., Ishtiaque Ahmed, S. and Olivier, P. (2023) Community Voice as Data: Affordances of Participatory Videos for International Program Development. In: 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23), Hamburg, Germany, 23-28 Apr 2023, p. 792. ISBN 9781450394215 (doi: 10.1145/3544548.3581458)

Abstract

International program development is a complex process involving many stakeholders. Current international practice affords limited, if any, opportunities for direct community-led input into the program commissioning process, resulting in programs that may not meet the specific needs of communities on the ground. Community voice is one source of data that could help focus the design of effective development programs and interventions. However, development programs are primarily formulated based on representative and often quantitative data conducted by experts from outside the community. Through a participatory video production process with disadvantaged women farmers in rural Bangladesh, we explore the opportunities for including meaningful community voices in these institutionalized processes. We present practical design implications for how community-generated voices can act as rich data, establishing confidence, community bonds and senses of accountability to inform early stages of project development, and to specifically augment and contextualize other data sources.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Lindsay, Dr Stephen
• Authors: Saha, M., Bartindale, T., Varghese, D., Lindsay, S., Richardson, D., Ishtiaque Ahmed, S., and Olivier, P.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• ISBN: 9781450394215
• Copyright Holders: © 2023 Copyright held by the owner/author(s)
• First Published: First published in CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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