Surfacing Structural Barriers to Community-Collaborative Approaches in Human-Computer Interaction
Calvin Alan Liang, Emily Tseng, Akeiylah Dewitt, Yasmine Kotturi, Sucheta Ghoshal, Angela D. R. Smith, Marisol Wong-Villacrés, Lauren G Wilcox, Sheena Lewis Erete · 2023
Community-collaborative approaches to technology research promise a more just, equitable, and societally impactful future for computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW).But how can we ensure that CSCW builds knowledge with communities as meaningful partners, rather than conducting research activities on them?And what would it take for our research activities to go a step further, with the aim of helping communities work towards alternative social structures and counter harmful structural oppression?With growing interest in community-collaborative approaches (CCA) in CSCW among both academic and industry institutions, it is time to reflect upon the field's history of these forms of engagement to develop pathways for the future.This interactive workshop draws from an expert roundtable featuring CSCW and human-computer interaction (HCI) researchers with a collectively rich wealth of knowledge on enacting, critiquing, and navigating communitybased research.Together, we explore the structural challenges of CCA for communities, research institutions, and individual researchers, with an explicit focus on how the values of computing research do and do not align with what is needed for truly community-collaborative work.