Optimal audio-visual representations for illiterate users of computers
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Text-free user interfaces for illiterate and semiliterate users
Information Technologies and International Development
Exploring the feasibility of video mail for illiterate users
AVI '08 Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
Designing new technologies for illiterate populations: A study in mobile phone interface design
Interacting with Computers
A comparison of mobile money-transfer UIs for non-literate and semi-literate users
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Avaaj Otalo: a field study of an interactive voice forum for small farmers in rural India
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Where there's a will there's a way: mobile media sharing in urban india
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
SymAB: symbol-based address book for the semi-literate mobile user
INTERACT'07 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction
Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)
Speech vs. touch-tone: telephony interfaces for information access by low literate users
ICTD'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development
Usage of the memory of mobile phones by illiterate people
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development
Karaoke: an assistive alternative interface for illiterate users
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development
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A large number of illiterate people -- 800 million worldwide -- are currently excluded from the benefits of asynchronous and cheap communication through text messages also known as SMS. Smart phones with touch screen will soon be in financial reach of illiterate people in developing countries. Our application EasyTexting allows illiterate users to listen to received SMS and compose text messages by augmenting words with touch-initiated text-to-speech support, icons for frequent phrases and by re-using words from previous messages. The application sends and receives plain SMS and makes no assumption on second parties' SMS editors. We present the motivation for this application derived from interviews and the evolution of the design along with an exploratory evaluation of the interface both with illiterate immigrants.