Exploring Low-Cost, Internet-Free Information Access for Resource-Constrained Communities
Exploring Low-Cost, Internet-Free Information Access for Resource-Constrained Communities
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10.1145/2990498
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2016-12
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Jennifer Pearson;Simon Robinson;Matt Jones
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作者：
Jennifer Pearson;Simon Robinson;Matt Jones
农村发展中地区通常是根据其资源限制来定义的，包括有限的技术接触，缺乏电力，缺乏数据连接（导致无法从数字或实物来源获取信息），以及在其国家人口中处于最不利的社会经济地位和最低的文化水平。本文主要关注这些地区的信息访问，旨在构建和扩展已经广泛使用的基于音频的服务，以便提供对更多类型媒体的访问。在本文中，我们对audioccanvas进行了扩展探索，这是一种基于电话的交互式音频信息系统，允许照相手机用户直接与他们自己的物理媒体照片进行交互，以接收叙述或描述。我们的新方法不需要专业的硬件、读写能力或数据连接，这使得它更有可能成为这些地区用户的合适解决方案。
Rural developing regions are often defined in terms of their resource constraints, including limited technology exposure, lack of power, and low access to data connections (leading to an inability to access information from digital or physical sources), as well as being amongst the most socio-economically disadvantaged and least literate in their countries’ populations. This article is focused around information access in such regions, aiming to build upon and extend the audio-based services that are already widely used in order to provide access to further types of media. In this article, then, we present an extended exploration of AudioCanvas—an interactive telephone-based audio information system that allows cameraphone users to interact directly with their own photos of physical media to receive narration or description. Our novel approach requires no specialist hardware, literacy, or data connectivity, making it far more likely to be a suitable solution for users in such regions.