Bidwell, Nicola J and Reitmaier, Thomas and Marsden, Gary (2011) Situating digital storytelling within African communities, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 69, 658-668, Elsevier.
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Abstract
We reflect on the methods, activities and perspectives we used to situate digital storytelling in two rural African communities in South Africa and Kenya. We demonstrate how in-depth ethnography in a village in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and a design workshop involving participants from that village allowed us to design a prototype mobile digital storytelling system suited to the needs of rural, oral users. By leveraging our prototype as a probe and observing villagers using it in two villages in South Africa and Kenya, we uncovered implications for situating digital storytelling within those communities. Finally, we distil observations relevant to localizing storytelling and their implications for transferring design into a different community.
| Item Type: | Journal article (paginated) |
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| Subjects: | Human-centered computing |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Feb 2012 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 15:33 |
| URI: | http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/759 |
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