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The active involvement of marginalized and vulnerable groups such as migrants and newly arrived refugees in the development of local communities has been part of many agendas across the EU and around the world. Despite the lessons gleaned from more than three decades of IUI research, there is still a shortage of systematic understanding and concrete guidance on how to design more socially inclusive and culturally sensitive interfaces targeted to these populations. In this paper, we argue that community-based citizen science approaches hold the potential to foster people-place bonds and inform the design of inclusive interactions since these initiatives are typically open to a wide audience regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, and education. From portable environmental monitoring devices to open databases providing place-related data about species observations and environmental threats, citizen scientists have a socially transformative and place-development potential that is often overlooked from an interaction design perspective. This research investigates this gap by examining digital interactions in citizen science through a systematic literature review addressing interaction possibilities for digitally enhanced place-belongingness. The results indicate three interaction themes within citizen science literature contributing to digitally enhanced sense of place-belonginess: place awareness and involvement, experience sharing, and collaboration encouragement. In addition, we found that the inclusivity goals in citizen science initiatives typically vary from urban and rural development to cultural purposes and environmental engagement and conservation. The interaction themes, along with the negative impacts of digital technologies, are discussed regarding their potential to inform technology design for place-belongingness in HCI.

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