TY - GEN
T1 - Chasing luck
T2 - 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021
AU - Sultana, Sharifa
AU - Mozumder, Mobaydul Haque
AU - Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was made possible by the generous grants from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (#RGPIN-2018-0), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (#892191082), Canada Foundation for Innovation (#37608), Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation (#37608), International Fulbright Centennial Fellowship of Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Facebook Fellowship of Sharifa Sultana. We also thank Rural Reconstruction Foundation (RRF) for supporting our feldwork.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/5/6
Y1 - 2021/5/6
N2 - HCI research predominantly uses scientifc rationality to explain users' behaviors, decisions, and interactions with statistical models based and data-driven systems. However, such interactions are often more diverse in real life, and may straddle beyond scientifc and economic rationality. Building on a ten-month ethnography at seven Bangladeshi villages, we explore the social and cultural factors that infuence the online betting practices among the villagers. We describe how bets harmonize with users' faith, hunch, and cultural practices, along with statistical recommendations. Drawing on a rich body of social science work on gambling, we contribute to the HCI scholarship in rationality, justifcation, and postcolonial computing. Finally, we present such betting as an under-appreciated site for HCI that contradicts with the ideological hegemony of statistical rationality, and recommend a smooth integration of AI system with the other rationalities of the Global South.
AB - HCI research predominantly uses scientifc rationality to explain users' behaviors, decisions, and interactions with statistical models based and data-driven systems. However, such interactions are often more diverse in real life, and may straddle beyond scientifc and economic rationality. Building on a ten-month ethnography at seven Bangladeshi villages, we explore the social and cultural factors that infuence the online betting practices among the villagers. We describe how bets harmonize with users' faith, hunch, and cultural practices, along with statistical recommendations. Drawing on a rich body of social science work on gambling, we contribute to the HCI scholarship in rationality, justifcation, and postcolonial computing. Finally, we present such betting as an under-appreciated site for HCI that contradicts with the ideological hegemony of statistical rationality, and recommend a smooth integration of AI system with the other rationalities of the Global South.
KW - Alternative rationalities
KW - Bangladesh
KW - Betting
KW - Data-driven
KW - Faith
KW - Hunch
KW - Luck
KW - Prediction
KW - Rural hci
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U2 - 10.1145/3411764.3445047
DO - 10.1145/3411764.3445047
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85106705820
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 8 May 2021 through 13 May 2021
ER -