Reflections on a Design Case Study - (Educational) ICT Intervention with Imazighen in Morocco

Rüller, Sarah; Aal, Konstantin; Holdermann, Simon

doi:10.1145/3328320.3328406

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“…This touches on the central issue of the actual learning process in practice, the first central empirical insights of which have been discussed in detail elsewhere (Rüller et al 2021;Rüller, Aal/Holdermann 2019;Aal et al 2018). Appropriation refers to the active and creative process in which users develop their social practices against the background of the newly created possibilities for acquiring information and communications technology (ICT) artefacts.…”

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Guides of the Atlas

Holdermann

2023

Media in Action

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How do digital media technologies shape or restructure social practice? And which transitions and demarcations of different forms of publicness arise in this context? Simon Holdermann examines this question in his ethnography of everyday life in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. In order to approach the ongoing, historically situated social transformations of the region, he analyses a variety of media practices concerning the organizational work and transnational cooperation that take place there - in particular at the intersection of mountain tourism, NGO work, and local self-government.

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Guides of the Atlas

Holdermann

2023

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“…It is a short and more reflective version of our recently accepted journal paper [27]. For a contextual framing of the research carried by our group in Morocco, please read further here [1,24,25].…”

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Moving beyond illiteracy: Is wearable and touch-sensitive technology the way to go forward?

Rüller

2022

Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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This paper reflects upon the first phase of a participatory speculative design approach to ameliorate the consequences of illiteracy through touch-sensitive technology. The study addresses both digital and traditional illiteracy, in a region in remote Morocco, inhabited by North Africa's indigenous population. After developing fictional stories in English, we translated them into Moroccan Arabic and visual storyboards, we are currently aiming at developing activities to creatively engage with modalities of storytelling and prototyping to explore participatory speculative design and touch-sensitive technology to bypass illiteracy. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); Interaction devices; Haptic devices; Ubiquitous and mobile computing; Ubiquitous and mobile computing systems and tools; Interaction design; Interaction design process and methods; Scenariobased design.

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‘Technology is Everywhere, we have the Opportunity to Learn it in the Valley’: The Appropriation of a Socio-Technical Enabling Infrastructure in the Moroccan High Atlas

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This paper describes the appropriation processes involved in establishing a socio-technical enabling infrastructure in a valley in the High Atlas of Morocco. We focus on the challenges of co-establishing such an intervention in a rural/mountainous region that is already undergoing a process of continuous development and profound transformation. We reflect upon the changes and unforeseen appropriation by our local partners and inhabitants in the valley of a computer club primarily used as an informal learning centre for school children. We followed an ethnographic approach and combined research perspectives from both socio-informatics and anthropology. This paper sheds light on what a successful cooperation and intervention in this kind of challenging environment can look like. It does this by taking seriously competing expectations, fragile infrastructural foundations and the socio-cultural context. Despite the challenges, the intervention managed to lead to the establishment of a socio-technical enabling infrastructure that plays a particularly valuable role in local educational endeavours and that is now moving towards supporting other members of the community. The paper thus provides insights regarding what has to be considered to create a mutually beneficial cooperation with all relevant stakeholders as well as a sustainable intervention.

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Reflections on a Design Case Study - (Educational) ICT Intervention with Imazighen in Morocco

Cited by 26 publications

References 9 publications

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Moving beyond illiteracy: Is wearable and touch-sensitive technology the way to go forward?

‘Technology is Everywhere, we have the Opportunity to Learn it in the Valley’: The Appropriation of a Socio-Technical Enabling Infrastructure in the Moroccan High Atlas

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