Usability Engineering
Proceedings of the IFIP TC9/WG9.1 Seventh International Conference on Woman, Work and Computerization: Charting a Course to the Future
About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design
About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design
Cultural probes and the value of uncertainty
interactions - Funology
Designing Interactions
Encyclopedia of Gender And Information Technology
Encyclopedia of Gender And Information Technology
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How probes inform and influence the design process
DPPI '07 Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Designing pleasurable products and interfaces
OZCHI '07 Proceedings of the 19th Australasian conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Entertaining User Interfaces
Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design
Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design
The gender perspective in cultural probes
Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008
e-Prisons and New Technologies: ICT as a Mechanism of Social Inclusion of Prisoners
International Journal of Knowledge Society Research
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In this article, we present an interdisciplinary research and design project on gender and diversity aspects in the development of information and communication technology (ICT). We take this project as a case study in order to show how we dealt with the digital divide. The digital divide denotes a knowledge and communication gap that finally leads to social disintegration caused by unequal ownership of information and communication technology (ICT) and unequally distributed access to the online world. It separates the society into so-called onliners and "none-liners". The digital divide is caused by social factors like age, gender, education, and local infrastructure (Arnhold in Digital Divide. Zugangs-oder Wissenskluft? Verlag Reinhard Fischer, M眉nchen, 2003; Gehrke in Digitale Teilung--Digitale Integration. Perspektiven der Internetnutzung. ecmc Working Paper, M眉nchen, 2004; Initiative D21, TNS Infratest (ed) in (N)Onliner Altas 2010. Eine Topografie des digitalen Grabens durch Deutschland. Nutzung und Nichtnutzung des Internets, Strukturen und regionale Verteilung, 2010; Initiative D21, TNS Infratest (ed) in Die digitale Gesellschaft in Deutschland--Sechs Nutzertypen im Vergleich. Eine Sonderstudie im Rahmen des (No)Onliner Atlas 2010, 2010; Statistisches Bundesamt (ed) in Wirtschaftsrechnungen. Private Haushalte in der Informationsgesellschaft Nutzung von Informations und Kommunikationstechnologien, Wiesbaden, 2010; Statistisches Bundesamt (ed) in Informationsgesellschaft in Deutschland, Wiesbaden, 2009). In our case study, we particularly show how we dealt with the aspects of age and gender on a methodological and practical level. Finally, we present a design concept based on research results explicitly considering age- or female-induced ICT demands and preferences. With this concept, we show how we attempt to enhance social equality and inclusion based on distributed responsibilities within local social networks.