Tangible user interface for increasing social interaction among rural women

Parmar, Vikram; Groeneveld, Gert; Jalote-Parmar, Ashis; Keyson, David V.

doi:10.1145/1517664.1517699

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“…Also, they had a more social and community based lifestyle, increasing interaction between the women within a village and helping them learn from each other's experiences. This insight coincides with the benefits of community based learning discussed in Parmar [17] and indicated the potential of promoting healthy community based beliefs to develop good health practices among the women -a factor that was absent for many of the poor urban households, who had to face their problems in isolation. We identified home remedies to be one such key area of community based learning of health information.…”

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confidence: 71%

“…However, the increasing penetration of internet provisioned mobile phones, especially in developing countries like India in recent times [24] is helping grassroots-level innovation of ICTs gain momentum for such communities. developing regions is picking up pace as poor communities have been found to prioritise them when asked to invest the little money they have [4,11,17,18,21]. One such demographically significant field is that of maternal healthcare.…”

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Visualising and systematizing a per-poor ICT intervention for Rural and Semi-urban Mothers in India

Tiwari

Sorathia

2014

Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction

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This paper presents an Information Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) intervention through a novel audio assisted mobile application, designed for low literate mothers in rural and sub-urban parts of Assam in India. It explores new methods to enhance the usability of ICTs by adopting the perpoor or grassroots level innovation model which facilitates the poor to innovate for themselves through their interpretation of existing technologies. Systematically harvesting grassroots innovation is gaining momentum and attracting ICT interventions due to the increasing availability of low cost personalized mobile phones. Following a user centred design approach, we designed an audio-visual based application for the Nokia 6303. This would impart maternal health care information to low literate mothers and provide them with easier access to government health care facilities. Our research and field work involved 24 participants and investigated new modes of disseminating maternal health care information without disrupting the existing government health care system. We explored usage of Interactive Genetic Algorithms (IGAs) to redefine our layout from scratch and compared two methods of representing graphics-metaphorical icons and realistic visuals, observing significant preference for the latter. We found that grid based menu icons in small screen interfaces were more adaptable than a list based menu. To consolidate and validate the design proposed by us, we qualitatively tested a high fidelity prototype with 8 fresh participants. Our findings provide a possible systematic set of considerations that can be taken prior to realizing per-poor innovation in future ICT4Ds.

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Visualising and systematizing a per-poor ICT intervention for Rural and Semi-urban Mothers in India

Tiwari

Sorathia

2014

Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction

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“…HCI, it is suggested, has been preoccupied with its own kind: largely white, middleclass men-and computer scientists, engineers and academics at that [6]. Thus we have paid little attention to the relationship women have with technology [7,46] (and the role of feminism in HCI [4]); the role technology has and could have amongst society's disenfranchised [13,14,40,47]; and that sizeable portion of the world's population making up what has been euphemistically called the Global South [8,35,38,39,41,51,56]. Moreover, the attention we've given to spirituality, religion [5,53,54,55] and, surprisingly perhaps, even television viewing and sport has been decidedly wanting [6].…”

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2011

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Out there" is increasingly becoming a topic of concern in HCI. Thanks to various clarion calls, researchers in the field are turning their attention to technology-mediated activities that are shaped less by Euro-American sensibilities and defined more by how they are culturally and geographically distinct. Fieldwork and ethnography researchers, for instance, are beginning to investigate ICT use at religious and spiritual sites, by the socially excluded and disenfranchised, and by people in developing regions. In this paper, I concentrate on the latter focus on development to reflect on HCI's disciplinary turn "out there". Specifically, I take the following three themes as common rhetorical devices in such work: (i) the network, (ii) difference and (iii) complexity. Through examples, I discuss how each of these themes has been mobilised. I then use materials from anthropology, science and technology studies, and to a lesser extent geography and postcolonial studies to complicate and in some cases question the interpretative frames that are being applied. Thus, my hope is that this paper is seen as a thought piece that deepens our thinking around HCI's efforts to look "out there" by paying critical attention to what is going on "in here".

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“…Parmar et al [124] compared group interaction of rural women with a health information system through an iconic keyboard interface versus an iconic tangible interface, and found that interaction through the tangible interface increased product engagement and social interaction, and improved community decision-making. Zuckerman & Gal-Oz [115] studied how stakeholders built a system dynamics model using a graphical user interface to a modelling tool, and using a tool consisting of abstract tangible signs, called FlowBlocks.…”

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“…3.2.2 and 3.2.3, I hypothesized that a tangible collaborative modelling approach can speed up the modelling process and improve the quality of the resulting models when these models need to integrate knowledge from various fields and various stakeholders. I decompose my hypothesis as follows ( H3 Physical and participatory modelling, similar to board games, increases engagement while reducing repetitiveness [115,123,124].…”

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Question everything. English summaryThis dissertation explores the role of conceptual models in assessing the risks pertaining to the development and operation of socio-technical systems. Specifically, it introduces a variety of risk assessment techniques built around different types of conceptual models not traditionally used in risk management. They range from coordination process models to argumentation models and from tangible models to value models. The dissertation does not, however, aim at to produce an exhaustive list. Instead, it is meant to shed light on how existing conceptual modelling paradigms can support the risk assessment processes, as well as discuss the applicability of different modelling approaches to the identification or analysis of different kinds of risks.I start by introducing a distinction between models serving as input to a risk assessment and models which are produced as a result of a risk assessment. I give examples of ontologies from the fields of enterprise modelling and argumentation which have the potential to empower analysts to better understand the system being assessed, to streamline the assessment process, to quantify risks, or to communicate results. In the remainder of the thesis, I propose several model-driven modelling and analysis approaches which can be used stand-alone but can also augment existing risk management processes. The approaches are centered around three modelling paradigms:• Tangible modelling -i.e. "physical" modeling using graspable three-dimensional tokens -and its benefits on the collaborative effort required to construct correct and complete models of socio-technical systems. I conclude that tangible modelling can reduce the modelling effort -especially when modelling is done as a group -and that it has beneficial effects on the quality of the resulting models when the modellers have a technical background. These effects are significant if there is some relationship between the appearance of the tangible tokens and their meaning. But they are heavily mitigated by the profile of the modellers: people with a technical background produce tangible models which closely adhere to the prescribed syntax of the language while people with a background in social sciences tend to produce rich pictures.• Argumentation modelling -i.e. recording the rationale behind claims -and how it can support the security decision making process. Results show that structuring the risk assessment as a set of arguments forces risk assessors to make their assumptions explicit and that maintaining a mapping between risks and countermeasures increases the defensibility of the resulting security requirements. Simple, informal argumentation structures provide a basis for making risk assessment more transparent, but also more collaborative.• Value modelling -i.e. understanding the value transfers which underpin any commercial information system -and how they can be used to quantify risks, identify vulnerabilities viii ENGLISH SUMMARY to fraud, and rationalize processes. I find that va...

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Tangible user interface for increasing social interaction among rural women

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Visualising and systematizing a per-poor ICT intervention for Rural and Semi-urban Mothers in India

Visualising and systematizing a per-poor ICT intervention for Rural and Semi-urban Mothers in India

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