Interaction design in the wild

The StoryBank project in the UK is exploring the application of digital storytelling technology to information sharing in the developing world. A multidisciplinary team of interaction designers, ethnographers and computer scientists are adopting a user-centered approach to the design of a system which should be useful to a specific rural community in South India. This paper discusses some of the challenges that the interaction designers met and how these shaped the design process. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces – Prototyping, User-centered design, control structures. General Terms Design, Human Factors. Keywords Digital divide, ICT4D.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: BCSHCI
• Authors: Dorothy Rachovides, David Frohlich, Maxine Frank
• Keywords: BCSHCI 2007, Digital Storytelling Technology, Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Designers, Keywords Digital Divide