TY - JOUR
T1 - Refugee Food Insecurity & Technology
T2 - Surfacing Experiences of Adaptation, Navigation, Negotiation and Sharing
AU - Talhouk, Reem
AU - Montague, Kyle
AU - Ghattas, Hala
AU - Araujo-Soares, Vera
AU - Ahmad, Balsam
AU - Balaam, Madeline
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by an EPSRC award EP/L016176/1 (Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Civics) and Northumbria University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - With the Syrian crisis still ongoing, 91% of Syrian refugee families in Lebanon do not have adequate access to safe and sufficient food. There has been a drive for technological innovation in humanitarian food assistance. To further inform such innovation, we used an Experience-Centred Design approach to gain a holistic understanding of the experiences of refugee food insecurity and how refugees envision technologies can support them. Design engagements with 13 women in an informal refugee settlement in Lebanon were conducted. The findings presented in this paper highlight that coping with food insecurity consists of experiences of adaptation, navigation, negotiation and sharing. We found that a multitude of technologies may be designed to enhance the aforementioned experiences and enable refugees to better cope with food insecurity. Through the lens of our findings, we discuss how technologies may support information sharing, the furthering of new practices and sharing of resources to support refugee food security.
AB - With the Syrian crisis still ongoing, 91% of Syrian refugee families in Lebanon do not have adequate access to safe and sufficient food. There has been a drive for technological innovation in humanitarian food assistance. To further inform such innovation, we used an Experience-Centred Design approach to gain a holistic understanding of the experiences of refugee food insecurity and how refugees envision technologies can support them. Design engagements with 13 women in an informal refugee settlement in Lebanon were conducted. The findings presented in this paper highlight that coping with food insecurity consists of experiences of adaptation, navigation, negotiation and sharing. We found that a multitude of technologies may be designed to enhance the aforementioned experiences and enable refugees to better cope with food insecurity. Through the lens of our findings, we discuss how technologies may support information sharing, the furthering of new practices and sharing of resources to support refugee food security.
KW - Design
KW - Digital humanitarianism
KW - Food security
KW - Human-computer interaction
KW - Humanitarian innovation
KW - Refugees
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U2 - 10.1007/s10606-022-09423-w
DO - 10.1007/s10606-022-09423-w
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85125547472
SN - 0925-9724
VL - 31
SP - 341
EP - 372
JO - Computer Supported Cooperative Work: CSCW: An International Journal
JF - Computer Supported Cooperative Work: CSCW: An International Journal
IS - 2
ER -
