We then discuss these patterns around broader organizational concerns to reflect on how they impacted our own research methods and commitments.

This work draws from our time with the group to ask: how might community-based researchers revisit and realign our research methods to better respond to the changing needs and practices of a research site? Our observations identified three recurring technological concerns expressed by staff that pointed to competing agendas and needs within the organization, specifically across different levels of scale: operational, proximal, and temporal. As on-site researchers, we were asked to design and deploy digital tools to support the organization in exchange for conducting research on organizational uses of technology. The group needed to distinguish and negotiate the various-and often competing-needs and commitments of the civic actors involved. Our findings focus on organizational staffвЂ™s relationships with information and communication technologies (ICTs), both in the course of their daily work of delivering care work to vulnerable participants, as well as the projectвЂ™s broader political goals to reduce recidivism and repair community relationships with local police. This article discusses the results from our fieldwork at a social service intermediary organization working to reform criminal justice institutions in a large city in the American South. We conclude with three implications for design for supporting end user development of complex electronic DIY: designing transparent open hardware technologies, standardizing communication protocols for the current andДЇuture DIY of IoT and deliberately calling for personal investment and labor in the assembling of DIY Findings indicate four key qualities of DIY monitors: transparent modularity, open-endedness, heirloom and disruptiveness, and how they contribute to more meaningful engagement with the DIY monitors, elevating them from the status of unremarkable objects to that of things. In this paper, we report on interviews with 18 participants from two green communities who built and used an open source DIYД®nergy monitor, with the aim to explore the end users DIY practices of making such complex electronicДevices. While DIY practice offers the potential for stronger user engagement with physical artifacts, we know little about end usersвЂ™ DIY practice of making complexД®lectronic technologies and their potential to ensure engagement with such devices. One way to support stronger end usersвЂ™ engagement with suchД¬omplex technologies is by involving them in the design process and with the advent of Arduino prototyping platform, even in their making. We are surrounded by increasingly complex networks of smart objects, yet our understanding andДЄttachment to them is rather limited.

We develop the implications of this work to inform HCI through three case studies related to sustainability - spectacle computing, heirloom computing, and citizen science - to demonstrate the potential for similar strategies for participation and to call attention to how HCI, too, implicitly constructs, enables, and constrains participation. We characterize 3 strategies these artists use to achieve participation: participation in spectacle, participation in making, and participation in inquiry.

We delineate how the disciplinary context of art both enables and limits the kinds of participation that can be achieved. Based on participant-observation at a major arts festival, we describe how a set of artists, concerned with environmental issues and community engagement, frame and enact participation, and describe how the nature of this participation deviated from both artistsвЂ™ and our ideas of what participation would be. Social practice art may suggest new understandings of and strategies for participation in HCI-but not in a straightforward way.

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