Designing with mobile digital storytelling in rural Africa

Bidwell, NJ; Reitmaier, T; Marsden, G; Hansen, S

Designing with mobile digital storytelling in rural Africa

Bidwell, NJ Reitmaier, T Marsden, G Hansen, S

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Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, 2010, 3 pp. 1593 - 1602
Issue Date:: 2010-07-01

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dc.contributor.author	Bidwell, NJ	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Reitmaier, T	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Marsden, G	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Hansen, S https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5530-7056	en_US
dc.date.issued	2010-07-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, 2010, 3 pp. 1593 - 1602	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781605589299	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/16221
dc.description.abstract	We reflect on activities to design a mobile application to enable rural people in South Africa's Eastern Cape to record and share their stories, which have implications for 'cross-cultural design,' and the wider use of stories in design. We based our initial concept for generating stories with audio and photos on cell-phones on a scenario informed by abstracting from digital storytelling projects globally and our personal experience. But insights from ethnography, and technology experiments involving storytelling, in a rural village led us to query our grounding assumptions and usability criteria. So, we implemented a method using cell-phones to localise storytelling, involve rural users and probe ways to incorporate visual and audio media. Products from this method helped us to generate design ideas for our current prototype which offers great flexibility. Thus we present a new way to depict stories digitally and a process for improving such software. © 2010 ACM.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1145/1753326.1753564	en_US
dc.title	Designing with mobile digital storytelling in rural Africa	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.citation.volume	3	en_US
utslib.for	0806 Information Systems	en_US
dc.location.activity	Atlanta, USA	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	3	en_US

Abstract:

We reflect on activities to design a mobile application to enable rural people in South Africa's Eastern Cape to record and share their stories, which have implications for 'cross-cultural design,' and the wider use of stories in design. We based our initial concept for generating stories with audio and photos on cell-phones on a scenario informed by abstracting from digital storytelling projects globally and our personal experience. But insights from ethnography, and technology experiments involving storytelling, in a rural village led us to query our grounding assumptions and usability criteria. So, we implemented a method using cell-phones to localise storytelling, involve rural users and probe ways to incorporate visual and audio media. Products from this method helped us to generate design ideas for our current prototype which offers great flexibility. Thus we present a new way to depict stories digitally and a process for improving such software. © 2010 ACM.

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