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Contextuality of participation in IS design: a developing country perspective
PDC 04 Proceedings of the eighth conference on Participatory design: Artful integration: interweaving media, materials and practices - Volume 1
A resource kit for participatory socio-technical design in rural kenya
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The Art of Cross-Cultural Design for Usability
UAHCI '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Addressing Diversity. Part I: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Exploring the African Village metaphor for computer user interface icons
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Being participated: a community approach
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Spaces for participatory creativity
Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Participatory Design Conference
Pushing personhood into place: Situating media in rural knowledge in Africa
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Situated interactions between audiovisual media and African herbal lore
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A new visualization approach to re-contextualize indigenous knowledge in rural Africa
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Designers, like artists, fuse learned skills with intuition formed over their past experiences to unfold their creativity. Continuous interactions between the designers, their creations, and their informing and receiving environment lead to alignment and harmonisation. However, we observe that displaced designers in an unfamiliar context can no longer blindly rely on their insights only to create acceptable artefacts. In this paper we depict the journey of a young western designer, who accepted the challenge to co-design a 3D graphics visualisation of a small village in Southern Africa. We have observed that the 3D graphics visualisation has significantly increased participation and facilitated co-creation of meaning at the interface of different cultures rather than just being an end product. Not only do we he have to learn to 'see' what the village elders see but also experience a paradigm shift in design and evaluation methods. Based on personal interrelations and immanent differing principles the interactions among the participants are renegotiated continuously during the design process.