Designing a graphical user interface for healthcare workers in rural India
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do
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Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames
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E-imci: improving pediatric health care in low-income countries
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Goal-setting considerations for persuasive technologies that encourage physical activity
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Persuasive Technology
Climate persuasive services: changing behavior towards low-carbon lifestyles
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Persuasive Technology
Persuasive system design: state of the art and future directions
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Persuasive Technology
NudgeCam: toward targeted, higher quality media capture
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Technology for emerging markets at MSR india
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Folk music goes digital in India
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Towards a design model for women's empowerment in the developing world
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The relationship of action research to human-computer interaction
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
An exploratory study on the use of camera phones and pico projectors in rural India
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Design of a phone-based clinical decision support system for resource-limited settings
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Improving community health worker performance through automated SMS
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The midwife's assistant: designing integrated learning tools to scaffold ultrasound practice
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
Health promotion as activism: building community capacity to effect social change
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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e-ESAS: improving quality of life for breast cancer patients in developing countries
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Designed for work, but not from here: rural and remote perspectives on networked technology
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Research and reality: using mobile messages to promote maternal health in rural India
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
The human infrastructure of ICTD
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
Mobile support for diagnosis of communicable diseases in remote locations
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the NZ Chapter of the ACM's Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction
Context-aware technology for improving interaction in video-based agricultural extension
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human Computer Interaction
Mobile video for patient education: the midwives' perspective
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development
A Hindi speech recognizer for an agricultural video search application
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development
Health education in rural communities with locally produced and locally relevant multimedia content
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development
Chale, how much it cost to browse?: results from a mobile data price transparency trial in Ghana
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development: Full Papers - Volume 1
Understanding barriers to information access and disclosure for HIV+ women
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development: Full Papers - Volume 1
Software support for creating digital health training materials in the field
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development: Full Papers - Volume 1
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
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Researchers have long been interested in the potential of ICTs to enable positive change in developing regions communities. In these environments, ICT interventions often fail because political, social and cultural forces work against the changes ICTs entail. We argue that familiar uses of ICTs for information services in these contexts are less potent than their use for persuasion and motivation in order to facilitate change. We focus on India's rural maternal health system where health workers are employed in villages to persuade pregnant women to utilize health services. Health workers face challenges due to resistance to change in the village, and because of their limited education, training and status. These factors appear to reduce the motivation of health workers and impair their performance. For two months, we deployed short videos on mobile phones designed to persuade village women and motivate health workers. We also asked health workers to record their own videos. While our results are preliminary, they show evidence that the creation and use of videos did help (1) engage village women in dialogue, (2) show positive effects toward health worker motivation and learning, and (3) motivate key community influencers to participate in promoting the health workers.