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20202025
most citedCrafting, Communality, and Computing: Building on Existing Strengths To Support a Vulnerable Population

43 citations · 78 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.HC2025★ 20 cited

Social Photo-Elicitation: The Use of Communal Production of Meaning to Hear a Vulnerable Population

Aakash Gautam, Chandani Shrestha, Deborah Tatar +1

We report on an initial ethnographic exploration of the situation of sex-trafficking survivors in Nepal. In the course of studying trafficking survivors in a protected-living situa…

cs.HC2022★ 14 cited

Empowering Participation Within Structures of Dependency

Aakash Gautam, Deborah Tatar

Participatory Design (PD) seeks political change to support people's democratic control over processes, solutions, and, in general, matters of concern to them. A particular challen…

cs.HC2020

p for political: Participation Without Agency Is Not Enough

Aakash Gautam, Deborah Tatar

Participatory Design's vision of democratic participation assumes participants' feelings of agency in envisioning a collective future. But this assumption may be leaky when dealing…

cs.HC2020★ 43 cited

Crafting, Communality, and Computing: Building on Existing Strengths To Support a Vulnerable Population

Aakash Gautam, Deborah Tatar, Steve Harrison

In Nepal, sex-trafficking survivors and the organizations that support them have limited resources to assist the survivors in their on-going journey towards reintegration. We take…

cs.CY2020★ 1 cited

Usable, Acceptable, Appropriable: Towards Practicable Privacy

Aakash Gautam

A majority of the work on digital privacy and security has focused on users from developed countries who account for only around 20\% of the global population. Moreover, the privac…