Title
Protibadi: A platform for fighting sexual harassment in urban Bangladesh
Abstract
Public sexual harassment has emerged as a large and growing concern in urban Bangladesh, with deep and damaging implications for gender security, justice, and rights of public participation. In this paper we describe an integrated program of ethnographic and design work meant to understand and address such problems. For one year we conducted surveys, interviews, and focus groups around sexual harassment with women at three different universities in Dhaka. Based on this input, we developed "Protibadi", a web and mobile phone based application designed to report, map, and share women's stories around sexual harassment in public places. In August 2013 the system launched, user studies were conducted, and public responses were monitored to gauge reactions, strengths, and limits of the system. This paper describes the findings of our ethnographic and design-based work, and suggests lessons relevant to other HCI efforts to understand and design around difficult and culturally sensitive problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2556288.2557376
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
culturally sensitive problem,public participation,damaging implication,design work,sexual harassment,public sexual harassment,hci effort,public place,design-based work,urban bangladesh,public response,ethnography,design
Public participation,Computer science,Public relations,Management,Mobile phone,User studies,Multimedia,Ethnography,Focus group,Harassment
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
25
1.86
16
Authors
8