@conference {19454,
	title = {"I Want to Imagine How That Place Looks": Designing Technologies to Support Connectivity Between Africans Living Abroad and Home},
	booktitle = {SIGCHI {\textquoteright}13},
	series = {CHI {\textquoteright}13},
	year = {2013},
	month = {2013///},
	pages = {2755 - 2764},
	publisher = {ACM},
	organization = {ACM},
	abstract = {Uneven access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in parts of the African continent make it challenging for some Africans who migrate to the U.S. to communicate with family members in their countries of origin. However, Internet access is becoming more widespread throughout the continent and this development presents an opportunity to explore how future interactive systems can support exchanges between families with members living in developed and less developed countries. To investigate these design possibilities we interviewed 27 African-born students, currently living in Virginia, U.S., and asked them how they used ICTs to connect with family members in their home countries. Our findings informed the development of a low-fidelity prototype that eight students lived with for four to five months. Findings from this deployment study motivate a discussion regarding features to include in interfaces designed to support transnational family communication. Features include personally meaningful imagery, country specific content, and the ability to monitor the weather and changing currency rates in migrants{\textquoteright} countries of origin.},
	keywords = {diaspora communities, family communication, hci4d/ictd, Interaction design, research through design, transnational},
	isbn = {978-1-4503-1899-0},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2470654.2481381},
	author = {Wyche, Susan P. and Marshini Chetty}
}
