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SUMMARY:Reconciling Temporalities in Relating Different Worlds - Professor
  Nicola Bidwell - International University of Management\, Namibia
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CONTACT:Ben Karniely
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I discuss temporality\, human meaning-making\, 
 and user experiences in a meta-analysis of some of my research over the pa
 st five years. I refer to examples in five distinct Human-computer-interac
 tion (HCI) and interaction design studies in Africa\, Asia\, Australia\, a
 nd Latin America. I begin by considering community networks (CNs)\, or tel
 ecommunications networks that local groups set up and run themselves\, oft
 en to “connect the unconnected”. My research suggests that people sust
 ain their CNs by adapting to local social and ecological relations as they
  go along. My studies on CNs\, in seven countries in the Global South also
  show that temporal differentiation interacts with the politics of space t
 o exclude people from access. I elaborate on temporal differentiation\, an
 d how people get into temporal register to make collaborative systems work
 \, by drawing on examples from our studies on ‘ride-sharing’ and trans
 port apps in the two Global South countries.\n\nNext\, I consider temporal
 ity in our collaboration with an indigenous group to design probabilistic 
 programming languages suited to their predictive logics. We find that we c
 annot abstract temporal registers from their expert reasoning about social
 \, ecological\, and other phenomena in the desert where they live. Finally
 \, I consider timing and people's awareness of phenomena in remote\, unfam
 iliar contexts. We trialed a Blockchain-based platform that enabled people
  to set conditions for financial transactions using data about various rea
 l-world phenomena (from earthquakes to politician's tweets). Automation en
 forced when transactions were made\, which prompted people to feel connect
 ed to situations far away and were more aware of temporal marginalisations
 . Thus\, I conclude by encouraging a sensitivity to multiple temporalities
  when we design technologies to support richer interconnectivities.\n\nLin
 k to join: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91253900399?pwd=SU5TNnpYdDlQbzQ4
 SEVPVWVWa0Nldz09\n\nA recording of this talk is available at the following
  link: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/seminars/wednesday/video/
LOCATION:Online
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