skip to main content
10.1145/3613905.3649127acmconferencesArticle/Chapter ViewAbstractPublication PageschiConference Proceedingsconference-collections
Work in Progress

We Are Still Here: The Thámien Ohlone Augmented Reality Tour

Published: 11 May 2024 Publication History

Abstract

The Thámien Ohlone Augmented Reality (AR) Tour at Santa Clara University uses an innovative approach to highlight the overlooked story of the Ohlone Native American People on a campus dominated by Catholic monuments. This location-based AR tour integrates 3D models, narration by Native storytellers, and traditional songs at three strategic stops, fostering a deep connection between the land and its indigenous stories. The project follows the principles of "design justice," emphasizing the active participation of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and adherence to the concept of rhetorical sovereignty. The “We Are Still Here” video shows novel co-design methods, such as "landmark-based affinity diagramming," that align stories with specific locations. Overall, it showcases how location-based AR can be a powerful medium for social justice narratives.

Supplemental Material

MP4 File
Video Figure
Transcript for: Video Figure
MP4 File - Video Showcase
Video Showcase
Transcript for: Video Showcase

References

[1]
Lauren Baines, Andrew Galvan, Alan Leventhal, Catherine Moore, Charlene Nijmeh, Lee Panich, Margaret M Russell, Rebecca M Schapp, and Robert Senkewicz. 2020. Ohlone History Working Group (OHWG) Report. Technical Report. Santa Clara University. https://www.scu.edu/media/offices/diversity/pdfs/V10.2_OHWG_CombinedReportFINAL.pdf
[2]
James I Charlton. 1998. Nothing about us without us: Disability oppression and empowerment. University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520925441
[3]
Sasha Costanza-Chock. 2020. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need. MIT Press. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=h4LPDwAAQBAJ
[4]
Andrés Lucero. 2015. Using Affinity Diagrams to Evaluate Interactive Prototypes. In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015. Springer International Publishing, 231–248. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22668-2_19
[5]
Kai Lukoff. 2023. Co-Designing the Thámien Ohlone Augmented Reality Tour at Santa Clara University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZawALZuiRIg
[6]
Scott Richard Lyons. 2000. Rhetorical Sovereignty: What Do American Indians Want from Writing?College Composition and Communication 51, 3 (2000), 447–468. https://doi.org/10.2307/358744
[7]
Tiffany T Nguyen, Cinthya Jauregui, Sarah Hazel Sallee, Mohan Raj Chandrasekar, Liam A’Hearn, Dominic Jonathan Woetzel, Pinak Paliwal, Madison Nguyen, Lee M Panich, Danielle M Heitmuller, Amy Lueck, and Kai Lukoff. 2024. Sociotechnical Considerations for Choosing SLAM Anchors in Location-Based Augmented Reality Experiences: Learnings from the Thámien Ohlone AR Tour at Santa Clara University. In Position Papers for the Workshop “With or Without Permission: Site-Specific Augmented Reality for Social Justice” at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22) (Hawaii, USA).
[8]
Craig Plain. 2007. Build an affinity for K-J method. Quality Progress 40, 3 (March 2007), 88. https://search.proquest.com/openview/b28efedd3c9f20a5c208d812da87518f/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=34671
[9]
Khal Schneider, Dale Allender, Margarita Berta-Ávila, Rose Borunda, Gregg Castro, Amy Murray, and Jenna Porter. 2019. More Than Missions: Native Californians and Allies Changing the Story of California History. Journal of American Indian Education 58, 3 (2019), 58–77. https://doi.org/10.5749/jamerindieduc.58.3.0058
[10]
Hope Schroeder, Rob Tokanel, Kyle Qian, and Khoi Le. 2023. Location-based AR for Social Justice: Case Studies, Lessons, and Open Challenges. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Hamburg, Germany) (CHI EA ’23, Article 391). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3573855
[11]
Rafael M L Silva, Ana María Cárdenas Gasca, Joshua A Fisher, Erica Principe Cruz, Cinthya Jauregui, Amy Lueck, Fannie Liu, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, and Kai Lukoff. 2023. With or Without Permission: Site-Specific Augmented Reality for Social Justice. In Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Hawaii, USA). ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3636283
[12]
R M L Silva, E Principe Cruz, D K Rosner, and others. 2022. Understanding AR Activism: An Interview Study with Creators of Augmented Reality Experiences for Social Change. Proceedings of the (2022). https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3491102.3517605

Cited By

View all
  • (2024)Fighting erasure and dispossession in the San Francisco Bay Area: putting archaeology to work for the Muwekma Ohlone TribeFrontiers in Environmental Archaeology10.3389/fearc.2024.13941063Online publication date: 5-Jun-2024

Recommendations

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences
CHI EA '24: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
May 2024
4761 pages
ISBN:9798400703317
DOI:10.1145/3613905
Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author.

Sponsors

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 11 May 2024

Check for updates

Author Tags

  1. augmented reality
  2. design justice
  3. social justice
  4. spatial justice

Qualifiers

  • Work in progress
  • Research
  • Refereed limited

Conference

CHI '24

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 6,164 of 23,696 submissions, 26%

Upcoming Conference

CHI 2025
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
April 26 - May 1, 2025
Yokohama , Japan

Contributors

Other Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

  • Downloads (Last 12 months)203
  • Downloads (Last 6 weeks)59
Reflects downloads up to 13 Jan 2025

Other Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all
  • (2024)Fighting erasure and dispossession in the San Francisco Bay Area: putting archaeology to work for the Muwekma Ohlone TribeFrontiers in Environmental Archaeology10.3389/fearc.2024.13941063Online publication date: 5-Jun-2024

View Options

Login options

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

PDF

eReader

View online with eReader.

eReader

Full Text

View this article in Full Text.

Full Text

HTML Format

View this article in HTML Format.

HTML Format

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

Share

Share

Share this Publication link

Share on social media