Participatory design in Britain and North America: responses to the “Scandinavian Challenge”
CHI '91 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A retrospective look at PD projects
Communications of the ACM - Special issue Participatory Design
Communications of the ACM - Special issue Participatory Design
Telecommunications and Information Services for the Poor: Towards a Strategy for Universal Access
Telecommunications and Information Services for the Poor: Towards a Strategy for Universal Access
Assessing prototypes' role in design
Proceedings of the 20th annual international conference on Computer documentation
Indra's Net: HCI in the developing world
interactions - Winds of change
Adopting information technology as a first step in design
interactions - Winds of change
HCI in the so-called developing world: what's in it for everyone
interactions - Winds of change
The quest for a killer app for opportunistic and delay tolerant networks: (invited paper)
Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Challenged networks
Towards new methods for mobility data gathering: content, sources, incentives
Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics of Planet-Scale Mobility Measurements
Postcolonial computing: a lens on design and development
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
HCI on the move: methods, culture, values
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Culture and (i)literacy as challenges to scandinavian cooperative design
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural collaboration
Human–Computer Interaction and Global Development
Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction
Exploring the potential of wireless technologies to accelerate universal Internet access in Ghana
Telecommunications Policy
Designed for work, but not from here: rural and remote perspectives on networked technology
Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Using a Participatory Action Research Approach to Design a Lecture Podcasting System
International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning
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The digital divide between rural and urban areas within developing countries is vast. We investigate how to address this divide by introducing Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into remote rural areas. Our aim is to discover how to create locally relevant software applications with appropriate content for these areas. We use a user centred design approach and a modified software development lifecyle that is participatory, iterative and cyclical. This process is based on principles from Participatory Design and Action Research. This paper presents our initial experience of developing a telemedicine application for a rural village in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa using this process. We present an overview of the methodology, describe the software application we have developed and cite several challenges we have faced. Finally we conclude that an inter-organisational and inter-disciplinary approach is needed to develop software for remote areas.