Normalizing Grit: The Futility of Personal Informatics for Farm Workers and Climate Change

要旨

California’s agricultural workers are a vulnerable population due to their undocumented status and poor working conditions. This paper describes community engagement with NGO workers, farm laborers, and farm owners to identify and address the effects of climate change, namely heat stress, on, strawberry field workers. We deployed personal informatics devices in a longitudinal study with three field workers for a month and a half and presented the collected statistics back to them, asking them to reflect on their personal health (e.g., exposure to heat stress) and work data. We found that field workers normalized grit - the irregularity, adversity, competitiveness, and helplessness of their labor - thereby limiting the promise of personal informatics to help users lead healthier lives. Implicitly, personal informatics supports white collar workers such as information workers; overall, however, our study suggests a mismatch between current designs and front-line work which involve intensive physical work requirements.

著者
Akash Chaudhary
University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States
Stefany Arevalo Escobar
University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States
Dulce Zayas
University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States
Norman Makoto. Su
University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3713643

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713643

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Social Good

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