Socio-cultural factors and capacity building in Interaction Design: Results of a video diary study in Botswana

Sharp, Helen; Lotz, Nicole; Mbayi-Kwelagobe, Letsema; Woodroffe, Mark; Rajah, Dino; Ranganai, Turugare

doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2019.102375

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“…In the study reported earlier, BPs used several of the taught techniques successfully in producing their designs. However, it is also clear that some of the techniques commonly used to work with users and designers in identifying requirements and evaluating prototypes are not so comfortable for novice designers in Botswana (Sharp et al, n.d.).…”

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Challenges for Interaction Design Education in the South: A Case Study of Botswana

Lotz

Sharp

2020

J of Intl Development

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In a long-term partnership between a university in the UK and one in Botswana teaching interaction design, the Botswana cohort of students consistently performed less well than their UK counterparts. To investigate this, we conducted a pair of design protocol studies: one in the UK and one in Botswana. Our findings show that designer behaviour differs in the two contexts in terms of process, use of ideation techniques and solution and problem focus, when approaching the task. More specifically, UK students follow the approach taught in the module, while this process conflicts with Botswana students' behaviours. However, we also find that Botswana students prioritise the external context of the designed product rather than its interaction characteristics, which is problematic as interaction is the key feature of interactive products. These results are significant because without leveraging indigenous knowledge to design interaction that supports local user characteristics and context, sustainable and equitable development through technological innovation will be suppressed. In this paper, we highlight challenges for interaction design education in Botswana, which include how to recognise and support a diversity of design approaches while providing suitable pedagogic scaffolding.

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“…Findings from the educator workshops are not conclusive. The diary study and its results are discussed in (Sharp et al, n.d.).…”

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Challenges for Interaction Design Education in the South: A Case Study of Botswana

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Sharp

2020

J of Intl Development

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“…The knowledge i.e. building blocks of the extensions are draw from the following kernel theories: Studies [21,22] related to HCI artefact features; [23][24][25][26][27] related to Contextual factors; [6,28] related to Computer Input Modalities; [28] related to Computer Output Media; [20,28,29] related to Human Sensory Perception; and [29][30][31][32][33] related to Human Cognition. The extensions are intended for accessibility-related research to incorporate accessibility to produce more accurate design principles.…”

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“…(2) Contextual factors: The context of use can affect users' abilities. The context of use may vary due to environmental factors, including users' emotional state, sociocultural factors, socio-technical factors, whereby cultural, political, sociological, and historical aspect of context [23][24][25][26] etc. Moreover, user expectations of artefact behaviour often rely on past experiences, prejudice, evoked memories, unmet expectation, and conviction that strongly influences how users perceive and experience the accessibility [27].…”

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How to Incorporate Accessibility to Design Principles for IS Artefacts?

Mäkipää,

Vartiainen

2024

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

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Design principles are used to specify design knowledge and describe the aim of artefact instantiation. Accessibility research aims to create artefacts that can be used by all users. However, schemes for design principles lack the tools to define accessibility explicitly. This study proposes extensions to scheme design principles for accessibility-related design science research. We draw accessibility domain-specific characteristics from the literature to include accessibility in design principles for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) instantiations. We extended the components of design principles with the following attributes: HCI Artefact Features; Contextual factors; Computer Input Modalities; Computer Output Media; Human Sensory Perception; Human Cognition; Human Functional Operations. We devised a checklist for researchers to follow the variations in accessibility. The extensions are intended to foster researchers to incorporate accessibility in producing a more accurate formulation of design principles.

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“…Avant-garde and innovative interactive design concepts are usually between theory and practical examples. When designers and researchers develop interactive design concepts, they focus on design solutions, so as to make the behavioral patterns of people and products, as well as the way of information communication between products, can achieve standardization and rationalization [10,11], etc.…”

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Exploring the Interactive Mode and User Experience of Dining Space Alone During the Post-Covid-19 Period from the Perspective of Cultural Probes

Feng

Chen

2021

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

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In 2019, the entire world was under the panic and threat of rapid spread of "COVID-19" virus. Especially, the global social structure pattern was changed. At the same time, traditional Eastern culture attaches great importance to table etiquette and eating together around the table. With the transformation of social lifestyle and structure, more and more people must start to face the situation of being alone or the mentality of dining alone in a restaurant. This research uses the theory of cultural probes to study the post-COVID-19 period, during which consumers stay alone in the restaurant and generate daily context and behavior patterns. Its research method adopts the role of "first-person perspective", combined with the context of "modeling feature track". Based on the cultural probe toolkit, this research obtains information for integrated research and simulation test verification. In the experimental testing phase, participants designed the user experience for the product's real-time "design interactive mode" and "personal space experience" through interviews, taking photos for record and writing mood logs, and created a new interactive design framework. The theme of this research is "The Interactive Mode and User Experience of Alone Dining Space during the Post-Covid-19 Period from the Perspective of Cultural Probes". It conducts research and draws conclusions based on the cultural probe theory and provides an innovative model that focuses on the interactive design relationship between people and products, supplemented by product appearance molding design. The name of the design work is "Intelligent Partition Plate System Product". It aims to establish a new type of humancomputer interaction communication framework mode, so as to meet the future interactive behavior of alone dining space in the post-COVID-19 era and enhance the overall user experience.

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Socio-cultural factors and capacity building in Interaction Design: Results of a video diary study in Botswana

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Challenges for Interaction Design Education in the South: A Case Study of Botswana

Challenges for Interaction Design Education in the South: A Case Study of Botswana

How to Incorporate Accessibility to Design Principles for IS Artefacts?

Exploring the Interactive Mode and User Experience of Dining Space Alone During the Post-Covid-19 Period from the Perspective of Cultural Probes

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