Welcome to the 27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2024). This year's conference is particularly special, as it marks the first time CSCW to be held in Latin America - a highly anticipated milestone for ...

We are delighted to present this issue of the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction to the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) community. The issue contains 171 papers, of which 117 were accepted from the July ...

We are extremely happy to be able to present the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) community with this issue of the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, containing very interesting and relevant scholarship ...

The understanding of how teenagers perceive, manage and perform privacy is less well-understood in spaces outside of Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic countries.

To fill this gap we interviewed 30 teens to investigate the privacy ...

We explore the experiences, understandings and perceptions of cyber-threats and crimes amongst young adults in Pakistan, focusing on their mechanisms for protecting themselves, for reporting cyber threats and for managing their digital identities. ...

This paper explores the creation, management and moderation of women-only online groups as digital safe spaces. We interview eleven founders and moderators of six distinct, closed, women-only Facebook groups that predominantly cater to women in and from ...

Women who identify with Islam in the United States come from many different race, class, and cultural communities. They are also more likely to be first or second-generation immigrants. This combination of different marginal identities (religious ...

We explore privacy perceptions, beliefs and practices of low-literate, low-income users in Pakistan, a patriarchal and religious context with a literacy rate of approx. 68% and where 59% of mobile users have less than 6 years of formal education. ...

HCI scholarship has not yet fully engaged with faith, religion, and spirituality, even though billions of people around the world are associated with such traditions and belief systems. While a few papers and workshops at CHI have focused on particular ...

We present findings from a three country study exploring the intersection between female intimate health and religious beliefs. Through a qualitative study with Muslim female populations in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Malaysia, three different Muslim ...

Understanding agency and empowerment outside the Global North.

This paper explores the opportunities and challenges in designing peer-support mechanisms for low-income,low-literate women in Pakistan, a patriarchal and religious context where women's movements, social relationsand access to digital technologies are ...

We explore the impact of the gender and accent of the voice recording in Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems in low-literate and patriarchal contexts. We conducted a small randomized control trial (RCT) with 62 participants, prompting them to ...

We explore peer support mechanisms in patriarchal contexts where a woman's movements, social relations and the seeking of support are restricted. We investigate the use of closed Facebook groups as a vital mechanism for access to anonymous peer support ...

In recent years there has been a growing body of work from the CHI communities that looks at designing for inclusivity and for the unique and specific constraints of diverse populations. This has included but is not limited to, work on designing within ...

We examine the opportunities and challenges in designing for maternal health in low-income, low-resource communities in patriarchal and religious contexts. Pakistan faces a crisis in maternal health with a maternal mortality ratio of 178 deaths per 100,...

This paper studies the use of Digital Financial Services (DFS) as a solution to women's financial inclusion in deeply patriarchal, resource constrained communities. Through a qualitative, empirical study we map the financial life cycles of 20 women ...