Eriol's Newcastle University Open Labs profile
Funded by Northern Bridge
This is the repository where Eriol Fox is collecting their PhD research details and processes.
Updated Proposal from August 2021
Annual Progression Reports to University
"How do human-centred designers currently contribute to Humanitarian Open Source Software (HOSS) and how is human-centred design viewed within HOSS?” A critical exploration in how human centred designers participate in and contribute to humanitarian Open Source Software.
If you're here, you've either been given this link by Eriol or found it by searching for research around design in OSS and/or Humanitarian/Human-Rights open technology. You can partcipate in this research in a number of ways:
- Read through any draft writing or finished papers and create an issue with a thought, response, additional research etc.
- If you think you or your OSS project/Humanitarian/Human-Rights organisation is relevant to this research please get in contact with Eriol on ther university email here: [email protected]
- If you've participated in Eriol's PhD research and want to get an update on something specific then you may find the heavily anonymised version of data here on this GitHub. Please contact Eriol at [email protected] for any specific locations of where your contribution to this research is kept.
- Any other comments or ideas you'd like to contribute to this research Eriol encourages you to put in a new issue.
Draft WIP writing for future papers that are 'loose' and non-formatted for academia
Papers that are for specific paper submissions and connected looser-writing
The folder for any supplementary images is located here
The folder for any presentation type data or presentations that Eriol has created in order to communicate their PhD and related research can be found here.
This project is one of the first interview based research pieces for this PhD and the details introducing it can be found in Ecosystem-mapping.md and subsequent details found in the folder
This project is one of the first observation research pieces for this PhD and the details introducing it can be found in hackathon-observation.md and subsequent details found in the folder
This is where the discovery and writing work across the broad discovery (found when investigating the ecosystems research piece) that humanitarian and to a lesser extent human rights orgs, designers and some factions of OSS have ways of describing 'how' to do/conduct their work along a set of guidelines. These vary in formality and strictness e.g. the Humanitarian principles being more akin to a doctors hippocratic oath and an OSS license being very close but not equal to a product warranty or patent but more like a standard set by the social systems or regulatory body of OSS. Designers have the least monitored (either socially or by a standards body) set of principles or ethics (outside of an academic environment). in this folder
For design + OSS papers: Usability, OSS, FLOSS, Design, Workshop, Open Source Design, User experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Community, Inclusion, For design papers: Action Research, AR, Participatory Design, PD, HCI, co-design, co design, community design For design + humanitarian/human-rights papers: Humanitarian, Innovation, HOSS, Human-Rights, For design + humanitarian/human-rights + OSS papers: OSS,
HOSS = Humanitarian OSS (the original way of describing the types of OSS this work would focus on which became broadened to include OSS that self descirbes as 'Human Rights OSS') H&HROSS = Humanitarian and Human Rights OSS hum = humanitarian hr = human rights hra or hrd = Human Rights Activist/Defender pd = Participatory Design pra = Participatory Action Research SDGS = Sustainable development goals
More easily updatable version here on Notion (not an OSS tool but easier to update!): https://www.notion.so/erioldoesdesign/PhD-HOSS-Design-e3e871281b2a479395b2e7057087e05d
For the GitHub listing of papers see this page: https://github.com/Erioldoesdesign/Design_HOSS_PhD/blob/main/paper-analysis/reading-list-papers.md
Eriol is also going to collect thoughts in video format on their youtube page here