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- research-articleDecember 2013
Ecologies of use and design: individual and social practices of mobile phone use within low-literate rickshawpuller communities in urban Bangladesh
- Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed,
- Steven J. Jackson,
- Maruf Zaber,
- Mehrab Bin Morshed,
- Md. Habibullah Bin Ismail,
- Sharmin Afrose
ACM DEV-4 '13: Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for DevelopmentArticle No.: 14, Pages 1–10https://doi.org/10.1145/2537052.2537066Making technology accessible to low literate users and communities is an important challenge of ICTD research and practice. Past work in the field has addressed the problem of effective UI (User Interface) design under low literacy conditions, exploring ...
- research-articleDecember 2013
Improving usability and correctness of a mobile tool to help a deaf person with pharmaceutical instruction
ACM DEV-4 '13: Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for DevelopmentArticle No.: 13, Pages 1–10https://doi.org/10.1145/2537052.2537063The computing for development community knows how to build user interfaces using qualitative methods for text illiterate users, especially on mobile devices. However, little work has been done specifically targeting Deaf users in developing regions who ...
- research-articleDecember 2013
Behavior analysis of low-literate users of a viral speech-based telephone service
ACM DEV-4 '13: Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for DevelopmentArticle No.: 12, Pages 1–9https://doi.org/10.1145/2537052.2537062We studied the behavior of users of a simple telephone-based voice modification and forwarding system, which has operated in Pakistan for about a year, attracting 165,000 users who interacted with the system by telephone over 636,000 times and generated ...
- research-articleDecember 2013
Lowering the barrier: how the what-you-see-is-what-you-map paradigm enables people to contribute volunteered geographic information
ACM DEV-4 '13: Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for DevelopmentArticle No.: 8, Pages 1–10https://doi.org/10.1145/2537052.2537056In developing countries, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) can be a valuable source of information, as often no detailed geo-data is available. Furthermore, it enables to aggregate local knowledge that can only be provided by local stakeholders. ...