HCI Bibliography : HCI Webliography : Broadening Participation
 


This website is a resource for those interested in broadening participation in information and commmunication technologies. Development of principles for universal usability can enable broad participation by ensuring that new designs for human-computer interfaces increasingly accommodate a wide range of technologies (slow and fast networks, old and new computers) and a diverse set of users (novice and expert, young and old, well-educated and poorly-educated, coming from different cultures and using different languages, and users with different kinds of abilities).

 

Research contributions in this area can improve online help, user services, and other methods to bridge the gap between what users know and what they need to know, and can affect the impact of technology in different cultures so that design of technology--and more important of socio-technical systems--can be made more responsive to different cultures.

This website contains data about communities, reports on existing online projects, organizations, and bibliographic resources.