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A resource kit for participatory socio-technical design in rural Kenya
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A resource kit for participatory socio-technical design in rural Kenya   (Citations: 6)
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We describe our approach and initial results in the participatory design of technology relevant to local rural livelihoods. Our approach to design and usability proceeds from research in theory and practice of cross-cultural implementations, but the novelty is in beginning not with particular technologies but from community needs, and structuring technology in terms of activities. We describe our project aims and initial data collected, which show that while villagers have no clear mental models for using computers or the Internet, they show a desire to have and use them. We then describe our approach to interaction design, our expectations and next steps as the technology and activities are first introduced to the villages.
Conference: Computer Human Interaction - CHI , pp. 2709-2714, 2008
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    • ...[40, 92]) and the perceived benefits of visiting natural places relate to activities therein [78]...

    Nicola J. Bidwell, et al. Pursuing genius loci: interaction design and natural places

    • ...[19, 20]). But theories are not conduits into a social field as they do not depict how meanings are constituted, and transformed, by a specific community...
    • ...Unlike classic ethnography, which gathers qualitative data without targeted intervention, I aimed to co-generate a design approach by interpreting priorities and discovering opportunities for design in the ad-hoc details in daily life and by establishing relationships and undertaking ‘sociotechnical experiments’ [19]...

    Nicola J. Bidwell. Anchoring Design in Rural Customs of Doing and Saying

    • ...Based on the proposed model, the paper explains the research directions adopted in an ongoing project (Village e-Science for Life -VeSeL) which aims at enabling rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa (initially Kenya) to use advanced digital technology to improve their agricultural practices and literacy levels [5,6,7]...
    • ...Figure (1) illustrates the VeSeL ecology of resources, which includes both humans and technology resources: a Distributed Resource Kit (DRK) [5] as a knowledge mobilizer, a Knowledge Management System (KMS) [6] as a system hub, and a WSN for agricultural sensing...
    • ...These sink nodes are to be located along the edge of the field for automatic data logging when some complementary hand-held devices pass by. In the VeSeL project these devices are part of the DRK which also serves other purposes [5]...

    Amar H. Kabashi, et al. Wireless Sensing for Development: An Integrated Design Approach

    • ...The design approach taken on by the team is one that trains end users to “take on design roles and self report their progress with the technology as participant ethnographer” [14]...

    Pauline Ngimwa, et al. Collaborative Ownership in Cross-Cultural Educational Digital Library ...

    • ...Village e-Science for Life (VeSeL) project is a collaboration of key research groups in the UK and Kenya with an overarching aim of enabling rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa to use advanced digital technology to improve their agricultural practices and literacy levels [3,4,5]...
    • ...The early phases resulted in developing an iteratively designed Community Resource Kit [3] and Knowledge Management System [4] which are currently in their second iteration...

    Amar H. Kabashi, et al. A Technical Framework for Designing Wireless Sensor Networks for Agric...

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