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Caring for the "next billion" mobile handsets
2016
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development - ICTD '16
ICTD is profoundly interested in the "next billion" users, and how to leverage technology to improve their everyday lives. In this paper we ask how the concept of care might be generatively extended to the 'lives' of the "next billion" mobile handsets. Drawing on a growing literature on repair in ICTD and HCI, and theories of care from the social sciences, this paper makes two central contributions. First, our ethnographic study of mobile phone repair in downtown Kampala, Uganda provides new
doi:10.1145/2909609.2909658
dblp:conf/ictd/HoustonJ16
fatcat:v7vyols3wrfvpfpwv5fuvghhum