Activity-Centered Design: An Ecological Approach to Designing Smart Tools and Usable Systems
Activity-Centered Design: An Ecological Approach to Designing Smart Tools and Usable Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design (Acting with Technology)
Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design (Acting with Technology)
Fortune at the bottom of the pyramid, the: eradicating poverty through profits
Fortune at the bottom of the pyramid, the: eradicating poverty through profits
The landscape's apprentice: lessons for place-centred design from grounding documentary
Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems
Pursuing genius loci: interaction design and natural places
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
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Many attempts to bridge the digital divide between lesser-developed countries (LDC) through Information & Communication Technology (ICT) projects have had little success. With the concurrent rise in number of ICT projects in rural areas, the current situation calls for better design. However, it is our claim that the nature of villages.being devoid of digital artifacts.requires much of HCI theory and methodologies to be re-examined. HCI theory has evolved in urban environments over the past 30 years and may not be suitable for the village environment. However, Activity Theory lends itself well to these environments as its primary focus is on pre-existing activities and goals rather than digital artifacts themselves. Using this theory as basis, we examine past failures and successes of ICT interventions. From this examination we intend to derive a practical framework for guiding future HCI-design (HCID) in the developing world.