@inproceedings{f10b859ea92e4be09b85420a65b51a0f,
title = "Parareligious-HCI: Designing for 'alternative' rationality in rural wellbeing in Bangladesh",
abstract = "A body of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research addresses a wide range of wellbeing issues including digital and online health-care, formal and informal healthcare and wellbeing infrastructure, and health informatics. We focus on the wellbeing practices among the underrepresented marginalized communities in rural Bangladesh. The goal of this work is to understand their wellbeing challenges and how those are connected to their religious beliefs and adaptations - that we define as 'Parareligion'. This paper presents our findings from a 3-year long ethnographic study with 150 participants in 15 villages. We extend this discussion by arguing for better inclusion of para-religious practices in Wellbeing-HCI discourse to design more culturally appropriate and sustainable technologies for such target communities.",
keywords = "Alternative rationality, Bangladesh, Parareligion, Religion, Rural, Wellbeing",
author = "Sharifa Sultana and Zinnat Sultana and Ahmed, {Syed Ishtiaque}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 ACM.; 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2020 ; Conference date: 25-04-2020 Through 30-04-2020",
year = "2020",
month = apr,
day = "25",
doi = "10.1145/3334480.3381819",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
booktitle = "CHI EA 2020 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
address = "United States",
}