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This paper offers context and culture elicitation in an inter-cultural and multi-disciplinary setting of ICT design. Localised usability evaluation (LUE) is augmented with a socio-technical evaluation tool (STEM) as a methodological approach to expose and address issues in a collaborative ICT design within the Village e-Science for Life (VeSeL) project in rural Kenya. The paper argues that designers need to locally identify context and culture in situ and further explicate their implications through the design process and at the global level. Stakeholders’ context, culture, decisions, agendas, expectations, disciplines and requirements need to be locally identified and globally evaluated to ensure a fit for purpose solution.
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Camara, S.B., Oyugi, C., Abdelnour-Nocera, J., Smith, A. (2010). Augmenting Usability: Cultural Elicitation in HCI. In: Katre, D., Orngreen, R., Yammiyavar, P., Clemmensen, T. (eds) Human Work Interaction Design: Usability in Social, Cultural and Organizational Contexts. HWID 2009. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 316. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11762-6_4
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