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Moving beyond illiteracy: Is wearable and touch-sensitive technology the way to go forward?: Reflections on ‘speculation’ and ‘fiction’ in participatory design with Imazighen in remote Morocco

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TEI '22: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3490149.3503582

Published: 13 February 2022 Publication History

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This paper reflects upon the first phase of a participatory speculative design approach to ameliorate the consequences of illiteracy through touch-sensitive technology. The study addresses both digital and traditional illiteracy, in a region in remote Morocco, inhabited by North Africa's indigenous population. After developing fictional stories in English, we translated them into Moroccan Arabic and visual storyboards, we are currently aiming at developing activities to creatively engage with modalities of storytelling and prototyping to explore participatory speculative design and touch-sensitive technology to bypass illiteracy.

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Rüller SGiménez Ciciolli BWeibert AAal KBlythe MMuller MKafai Y(2022)Creative Entrances to Co-DesignProceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022 - Volume 210.1145/3537797.3537877(247-250)Online publication date: 19-Aug-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3537797.3537877
Evangelista PMittal V(2021)Recursive midpoint search for line of sightProceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference10.5555/3522802.3523014(1-10)Online publication date: 13-Dec-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3522802.3523014

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