Evaluating the relevance of the 'Real Access' criteria as a framework for rural HCI research

Maunder, AJ and Tucker, WD and Marsden, Gary (2006) Evaluating the relevance of the 'Real Access' criteria as a framework for rural HCI research, Proceedings of 5th Conference on Human Computer Interaction in Southern Africa, January 2006, Cape Town, South Africa.

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Abstract

Developing ICT software that is useful and usable in a rural context poses many problems. One of the major difficulties is understanding the real needs of the end users and the constraints imposed by the rural environment. Many techniques exist in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) that attempt to understand the needs of the end users but many are not useful in a rural context, or at least not when applied in a standard way. This paper presents some existing HCI research techniques that are applicable in a rural context and shows how they fit into the bridges.org ‘Real Access’ framework.

Item Type:	Conference paper
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Usability, usable, rural, software design, human computer interaction
Subjects:	Human-centered computing
Date Deposited:	10 Sep 2006
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2019 15:35
URI:	http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/316

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