As artificial intelligence continues to advance, marginalized communities, particularly in Africa, remain limited in their ability to shape what AI should do, how it should be built, and how it might benefit them. This study adopted a speculative co-design approach with participants from Ocean View, a low-income community in South Africa. The aim was to elicit and facilitate collective visions to reimagine the future of AI and explore ways to make AI technologies more culturally relevant. Our findings reveal participants’ perceptions about AI, which informed a collective vision of AI designs that embed the community’s local language and culture as well as services aimed at improving the community’s economic opportunities. Based on these insights, we identified directions for ethical AI design for marginalized communities that recognise and preserve cultural identity, needs for affordable AI designs, and the potential of AI for their socio-economic advancement as trajectories within AI research.

Community Networks (CNs) worldwide are promising low-resource communities new ways of connecting and interplaying with technology. The embedded infrastructures of the CNs are derived from the sociocultural, political, spatial, and economic practices of the people they are built with and the communities they are located in. CNs situated in an area are not only followed by the technical requirements and possibilities of making the networks alive and accessible but are also shaped and moulded by the people and their practices. Community members’ lived experience and awareness of the local knowledge and local practices materialize the network in the situated realities. Yet the knowledge and experiences of the communities are often invisible and not considered in future research agendas for infrastructure and technology developments. In this workshop, we aim to bring together community members from around the world working on the frontlines of CNs as experts to share their local knowledge and experiences of designing, developing, negotiating, and maintaining the network, while opening the space for early career researchers and students to listen and learn from the ground.

Behavior change and improving health literacy based on normative ideals of motherhood is a dominant paradigm to address maternal health challenges. However, these ideals often remove women's control over their bodies overlooking how the bodily experiences of pregnancy are socially and culturally constructed. We report on 27 interviews with pregnant women and nursing mothers in rural and semi-urban areas of South India, and six focus groups with 23 frontline health workers as secondary data. We explore how the embodied pregnancy experiences are influenced and negotiated by the socio-cultural context and existing care infrastructures. Our findings highlight how the ways of seeing, knowing, and caring for a body of a pregnant woman through often conflicting norms, beliefs and practices of medicine, nourishment and care actively shape the experiences of pregnancy. We open up a space for novel opportunities for digital health technologies to enhance women's embodied experiences and pregnancy care infrastructures in the Global South.

Frontline health workers are the first and often the only access point to basic health care services in low-and-middle income countries. However, the work and the issues frontline health workers face are often invisible to the healthcare system, with limited resources to assist them. This study explores the work practices, challenges and roles of frontline health workers in community health with particular focus on pregnancy care in South India. Drawing on the notion of maintenance and articulation work, we describe the maintenance work of frontline health workers maintaining, anticipating, reconciling, and supporting care infrastructures beyond data collection practices. Our findings highlight how socio-cultural practices, perceptions, status, and existing systems influence maintenance work practices. Based on our findings, we suggest moving beyond the focus on training and performance to design CSCW tools to support the maintenance work of frontline health workers as 'system-builders' to make healthcare infrastructures work in community health.

Motorbike commuting is the new frontier for exploring digital technology where designing for embodied interaction takes on a more central role. In this paper, building on previous work on embodied self-monitoring, we present our ongoing work of designing a modular platform with a particular focus on real-time estimation and presentation of posture data while riding. In particular, we present "Bike Area Network' (BANk) as a system architecture to help guide the design of such a platform. We share our ongoing work as an invitation for the community of researchers and practitioners of designing for embodied interaction to further explore this new frontier of research.

In this article we focus on how rehabilitees make use of personal data as part of performing their prescribed physical therapy in out-of-clinic settings (e.g., home). Over the past 5 years we have been extensively involved in the design of pervasive and mobile technologies to support out-of-clinic physical rehabilitation. Two strands guide our work: situated and embodied interaction, and the practice and theory of physical rehabilitation. In particular we draw upon the latter’s practice of integrating therapy with the lived everyday settings and the model of Person–Environment–Occupation. We revisit this work from the emerging perspective of lived informatics to bring forward multiple instances of rehabilitees using personal rehabilitation data to make sense of their physical rehabilitation process. We present these instances under four categories: becoming your own standard of reference; marking your life as a rehabilitee; articulating with therapists, partners, and peers; and incorporating exercising with everyday activities. We put forward the Person–Environment–Occupation model as a generative entry point for designing digital technology in support of lived informatics in out-of-clinic physical rehabilitation. Through this article we invite researchers in the field of lived informatics to engage in the design of digital technologies for out-of-clinic physical rehabilitation.

Recently there have been concerns to investigate the general issues of design within the field of designing pervasive rehabilitation technology. In this paper we take these concerns as points-of-departure to explore the possible roles that digital technology can be designed to take, for supporting the integration of physiotherapy with the everyday life of the rehabilitees. Informed by the perspective of embodied interaction we engaged in four design explorations that were driven by a process of sketching-in-hardware. We take advantage of the rich social, material and physical everyday practices of the rehabilitees in these situations to design four interactive sketches. We reflect on the sketches and the explorations and synthesize our experiences in the form of an emerging space of possibilities. We position these possibilities as particular directions that future endeavors can take in order to design rehabilitation technology that supports an integration of physiotherapy with the everyday life.

In this paper we highlight our realization of the entangled role played by the aspects of self-monitoring and collaborative articulation in facilitating a successful rehabilitation process. We describe the process of sketching-driven-co-exploration with therapists and senior citizens leading to our ongoing work in MyReDiary: a personal device for the senior citizens. While supporting self-monitoring of the rehab process for the senior citizens, it simultaneously acts as a tool for collaboration. Importantly, it aims to provide a language for the senior citizens to discuss their experiences from home.