Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Social dynamics of early stage co-design in developing regions
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Text-free user interfaces for illiterate and semiliterate users
Information Technologies and International Development
Putting icts in the hands of the women of kanpur and the chikan embroidery workers of lucknow1
Information Technologies and International Development
Empowering women weavers? the internet in rural morocco
Information Technologies and International Development
Women and gender in ict statistics and indicators for development
Information Technologies and International Development
Empowerment zones? women, internet cafés, and life transformations in egypt
Information Technologies and International Development
Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming
Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming
An exploratory study of unsupervised mobile learning in rural India
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Feminist HCI: taking stock and outlining an agenda for design
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Mobile-izing health workers in rural India
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Intermediated technology use in developing communities
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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
| Hi-index | 0.01 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof argues that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world. In this paper, we present a design model for empowering low-income women in the developing world, in ways that cut across individual application areas. Specifically, this model characterizes a possible trajectory for NGOs and women to engage with each other and among themselves potentially augmented by technology to help women escape from poverty. The fieldwork components in this study took place over 15 weeks in three phases, with a total of 47 NGO staff members and 35 socio-economically challenged women in rural and urban India. Interviews and co-design sessions with seven proof-of-concept prototypes showed that women appeared to belong to five distinct stages of growth in striving towards independence. We report the technology design lessons from our co-design sessions to illustrate how user readiness, relationship building at the community and family levels, and integration with state, national and international level programs, should be taken into account in the broader context of intervention design.