NUS Computing Alumnus Wins Multiple International Best Paper Awards for Advancing Digital Inclusion

NUS Computing Alumnus Wins Multiple International Best Paper Awards for Advancing Digital Inclusion

Congratulations to alumnus Dr Deng Yimeng and collaborators on receiving multiple international Best Paper Awards for their research on digital inclusion.

Their paper, “Inclusion by Design: Requirements Elicitation with Digitally Marginalised Communities,” received the 2024 Best Paper Award from MIS Quarterly, alongside the Senior Scholars Best IS Publication Award from the Association for Information Systems and the 2024 Bapna–Ghose Social Justice Best Paper Award from the INFORMS Information Systems Society.

Co-authored by Deng Yimeng (PhD IS, Class of 2016), Isam Faik, and Avijit Sengupta, the study advances a design-centred approach to digital inclusion. It argues that meaningful inclusion requires technologies to be designed in close partnership with marginalised communities, rather than through the adoption of one-size-fits-all digital solutions.

Drawing on the co-design of digital applications with farming communities in India and China, the paper introduces a novel methodology – design-based interpretive research – and proposes the concept of affordance translation to help bridge gaps between digital technologies and local contexts.Published in the March 2024 issue of MIS Quarterly, the paper highlights the School of Computing’s strength in rigorous, socially grounded information systems research, and its commitment to advancing technology that serves diverse communities.

Read the award-winning paper here: https://aisel.aisnet.org/misq/vol48/iss1/9/