More than just food: Field visits to an emergency relief centre
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01/12/2015
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Emergency relief centres provide financial, housing, food and other types of support to families and individuals who experience financial hardship. These centres are non-profit, often government supported organizations that rely on the help of their volunteers and social workers. This paper reports on our preliminary findings from field visits to one such centre called Communify, in the inner west of Brisbane, Australia. Communify runs an emergency food relief facility for people who find themselves in a crisis or temporarily unable to afford groceries. Over a period of five months, we did several field visits to the centre and carried out 21 short in-situ interviews, with a mix of Communify clients and volunteers. Our results shed light on people’s experiences of financial hardship and their interactions with the emergency relief centre. In particular, issues related to their perceived values and stigmas associated with their experiences are highlighted in our findings. We identify opportunities for design that can empower people struggling with financial hardship. |
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ACM |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/90106/1/OzCHI2015_Communify.pdf Vyas, Dhaval, Snow, Stephen, & Mallet, Miranda (2015) More than just food: Field visits to an emergency relief centre. In Proceedings of 27th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, ACM, Melbourne, VIC. |
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School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science; Science & Engineering Faculty |
Palavras-Chave | #Emergency Relief #Design #HCI #Financial Hardship |
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Conference Paper |