Communicating in designing an oral repository for rural African villages
Communicating in designing an oral repository for rural African villages
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为非洲乡村设计口腔知识库进行交流
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2012
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W. Tucker
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Thomas Reitmaier;N. Bidwell;Masbulele Jay Siya;G. Marsden;W. Tucker
We describe designing an asynchronous, oral reposit ory and sharing system that we intend to suit the needs and practic es of rural residents in South Africa. We aim to enable users without access to pe rsonal computers to record, store, and share information within their Xhosa community using cellphones and a tablet PC combined with their existing face-to-face oral p ractices. Our approach recognises that systems are more likely to be effective if the design concept and process build on existing local communication practices as well a s addressing local constraints, e.g. cost. Thus, we show how the objectives for the system emerged from prolonged research locally and how we communicated insights, situated in the community, into the process of design and development in a city-bas ed lab. We discuss how we integrated understandings about communication between situated- and local- researchers and designers and developers and note t he importance of recognising and centralising subtle differences in our perception o f acts of oral communication. We go on to show how the materiality of the software, the tablet form factor, and touch interaction style played into our collaborative eff ort in conceiving the design.
