Establishing relationships for designing rural information systems Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3338141, abstract = {Designing for the developing world presents unique challenges. Establishing rapport with local partners is important to overcome contextual unfamiliarity and ensure the relevance of proposed solutions. In this paper, we discuss our experiences designing a CAM-based mobile data capture system for Asobagri, a rural coffee cooperative in Barillas, Guatemala. CAM is a camera-based mobile application framework designed based on fieldwork with rural microfinance groups in India. Our local partners in India are now using the CAM framework in a real application. We list some practices that have helped us establish and sustain both these design relationships.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Schwartzman, Yael and Parikh, Tapan S.}, booktitle = {CHI '07: CHI '07 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {3338141}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1240866.1240909}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1240909}, doi = {10.1145/1240866.1240909}, isbn = {978-1-59593-642-4}, keywords = {participatory-design, rural}, location = {San Jose, CA, USA}, pages = {1845--1850}, posted-at = {2008-09-25 20:48:39}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Establishing relationships for designing rural information systems}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1240909}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3338141 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3338141 N2 - Designing for the developing world presents unique challenges. Establishing rapport with local partners is important to overcome contextual unfamiliarity and ensure the relevance of proposed solutions. In this paper, we discuss our experiences designing a CAM-based mobile data capture system for Asobagri, a rural coffee cooperative in Barillas, Guatemala. CAM is a camera-based mobile application framework designed based on fieldwork with rural microfinance groups in India. Our local partners in India are now using the CAM framework in a real application. We list some practices that have helped us establish and sustain both these design relationships. CY - San Jose, CA, USA SN - 978-1-59593-642-4 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 1850 TI - Establishing relationships for designing rural information systems PB - ACM T2 - CHI '07: CHI '07 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems SP - 1845 KW - participatory-design KW - rural AU - Schwartzman, Yael AU - Parikh, Tapan PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1240909 ER -