Towards preserving indigenous oral stories using tangible objects

Smith, A; Reitsma, L; Van Den Hoven, E; Kotzé, P; Coetzee, L

Towards preserving indigenous oral stories using tangible objects

Smith, A Reitsma, L Van Den Hoven, E

Kotzé, P Coetzee, L

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Citation:: Proceedings - 2011 2nd International Conference on Culture and Computing, Culture and Computing 2011, 2011, pp. 86 - 91
Issue Date:: 2011-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	Smith, A	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Reitsma, L	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Van Den Hoven, E https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0888-1426	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Kotzé, P	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Coetzee, L	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011-12-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Proceedings - 2011 2nd International Conference on Culture and Computing, Culture and Computing 2011, 2011, pp. 86 - 91	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9780769545462	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/30006
dc.description.abstract	Handcrafted beadwork produced by the BaNtwane people of South Africa is loaded with meaning. Communicating indigenous oral stories is important for passing on culture-specific traditions and community memory, such as the meaning of the handcrafted beadwork. Oral stories are told within the physical confines of the community. The community we focus on in this paper suffers from younger generations moving away physically, start preferring the English language over their mother tongue and digital over oral communication, and therefore this co-located storytelling process is interrupted. As part of the Story Beads project we have created an interactive system that incorporates a combination of physical objects and modern technology for recording and replaying oral stories that can help preserve the meaning of the handcrafted beadwork of the BaNtwane people. © 2011 IEEE.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings - 2011 2nd International Conference on Culture and Computing, Culture and Computing 2011	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.24	en_US
dc.title	Towards preserving indigenous oral stories using tangible objects	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.for	1203 Design Practice and Management	en_US
utslib.for	080602 Computer-Human Interaction	en_US
dc.location.activity	Kyoto, Japan	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Computer Science
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CCDP - Contemporary Design Practice
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Abstract:

Handcrafted beadwork produced by the BaNtwane people of South Africa is loaded with meaning. Communicating indigenous oral stories is important for passing on culture-specific traditions and community memory, such as the meaning of the handcrafted beadwork. Oral stories are told within the physical confines of the community. The community we focus on in this paper suffers from younger generations moving away physically, start preferring the English language over their mother tongue and digital over oral communication, and therefore this co-located storytelling process is interrupted. As part of the Story Beads project we have created an interactive system that incorporates a combination of physical objects and modern technology for recording and replaying oral stories that can help preserve the meaning of the handcrafted beadwork of the BaNtwane people. © 2011 IEEE.

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