6,685 research outputs found
Designing Collaborative Data Collection Interfaces for Low-literate Users
Data collection applications on smartphone devices support indigenous communities in developing countries to record and preserve traditional ecological knowledge, collaboratively collect data around issues that are important to them and use these tools to subsequently identify locally-acceptable solutions with global impacts. Development of these interfaces needs to consider usersâ familiarity with technology as well as their education and literacy levels. This study builds on existing HCI4D research, which is also of interest to the CSCW community, in order to develop and evaluate, for their usability and user preferences, four user interfaces with low-literate people in the UK. Our findings suggest that linear navigation structures and a tangible interface are almost equally usable and preferred when they require minimum interaction with the device. Our preliminary analysis provides a deeper insight into the design issues to inform development of smartphone-based interfaces using various interaction types and we report on our methodological challenges from carrying out HCI research with low-literate people in the UK. The findings of this paper are used to inform the experimental design of additional work that we carry out with low-literate users in Namibia
Human computer interaction for international development: past present and future
Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in research into the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of developing regions, particularly into how such ICTs might be appropriately designed to meet the unique user and infrastructural requirements that we encounter in these cross-cultural environments. This emerging field, known to some as HCI4D, is the product of a diverse set of origins. As such, it can often be difficult to navigate prior work, and/or to piece together a broad picture of what the field looks like as a whole. In this paper, we aim to contextualize HCI4Dâto give it some historical background, to review its existing literature spanning a number of research traditions, to discuss some of its key issues arising from the work done so far, and to suggest some major research objectives for the future
Supporting collaboration with non-literate forest communities in the congo-basin
Providing indigenous communities with ICT tools and methods
for collecting and sharing their Traditional Ecological
Knowledge is increasingly recognised as an avenue
for improvements in environmental governance and socialenvironmental
justice. In this paper we show how we carried
out a usability engineering effort in the âwildâ context
of the Congolese rainforest â designing, evaluating and iteratively
improving novel collaborative data collection interfaces
for non-literate forest communities that can subsequently
be used to facilitate communication and information
sharing with logging companies. Working in this context
necessitates adopting a thoroughly flexible approach to the
design, development, introduction and evaluation of technology
and the modes of interaction it offers. We show that we
have improved participant accuracy from about 75% towards
95% and provide a set of guidelines for designing and evaluating
ICT solutions in âextreme circumstancesâ â which hold
lessons for CSCW, HCI and ICT4D practitioners dealing with
similar challenges
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) from a user perspective- A synthesis of prior literature and problematizing avenues for future research
The final search query for the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was
conducted on 15th July 2022. Initially, we extracted 1707 journal and
conference articles from the Scopus and Web of Science databases. Inclusion and
exclusion criteria were then applied, and 58 articles were selected for the
SLR. The findings show four dimensions that shape the AI explanation, which are
format (explanation representation format), completeness (explanation should
contain all required information, including the supplementary information),
accuracy (information regarding the accuracy of the explanation), and currency
(explanation should contain recent information). Moreover, along with the
automatic representation of the explanation, the users can request additional
information if needed. We have also found five dimensions of XAI effects:
trust, transparency, understandability, usability, and fairness. In addition,
we investigated current knowledge from selected articles to problematize future
research agendas as research questions along with possible research paths.
Consequently, a comprehensive framework of XAI and its possible effects on user
behavior has been developed
Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics.
The Bioconductor project is an initiative for the collaborative creation of extensible software for computational biology and bioinformatics. The goals of the project include: fostering collaborative development and widespread use of innovative software, reducing barriers to entry into interdisciplinary scientific research, and promoting the achievement of remote reproducibility of research results. We describe details of our aims and methods, identify current challenges, compare Bioconductor to other open bioinformatics projects, and provide working examples
Exploring participatory design for SNS-based AEH systems
The rapidly emerging and growing social networking sites (SNS) offer an opportunity to improve adaptive e-learning
experience by introducing a social dimension, connecting users within the system. Making connections and providing communication tools can engage students in creating effective learning environment and enriching learning experiences.
Researchers have been working on introducing SNS features into adaptive educational hypermedia systems. The next stage research is centered on how to enhance SNS facilities of AEH systems, in order to engage studentsâ participation in collaborative learning and generating and enriching learning materials. Students are the core participants in the adaptive e-learning process, so it is essential for the system designers to consider studentsâ opinions. This paper aims at exploring
how to apply participatory design methodology in the early stage of the SNS-based AEH system design process
Human-Computer User Interface Design for Semiliterate and Illiterate Users
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has revolutionized the lives of the people. The technology is embedded in daily life of literate or semiliterate/illiterate users. However, the user interface (UI) requirements for semiliterate/illiterate users are different from that of an educated person. The researchers of Human Computer Interaction for Development (HCI4D) face challenges to improve the usability of a UI for the semiliterate users. Therefore, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is conducted to provide a set of design factors and guidelines for UI development of semiliterate users. The study is based on extensive research gathered from literature to understand the user-centered design (UCD) approach, enhancing user experience (UX) for semiliterate users. This study analyses fifty two research articles that are published during 2010-2020. The findings shed light on the systematization of UI design guidelines for semiliterate/illiterate users. These guidelines can help in taking advantage of ICT during the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis shows that seventeen main design factors are indispensable for designing UI of semiliterate users. The most suggested design factors include localization and graphics, which should be incorporated in UI for the target population. Moreover, the lag in the design factors as personalization and consistency open a road for future research
Geographic Citizen Science Design
Little did Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and other âgentlemen scientistsâ know, when they were making their scientific discoveries, that some centuries later they would inspire a new field of scientific practice and innovation, called citizen science. The current growth and availability of citizen science projects and relevant applications to support citizen involvement is massive; every citizen has an opportunity to become a scientist and contribute to a scientific discipline, without having any professional qualifications. With geographic interfaces being the common approach to support collection, analysis and dissemination of data contributed by participants, âgeographic citizen scienceâ is being approached from different angles. Geographic Citizen Science Design takes an anthropological and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) stance to provide the theoretical and methodological foundations to support the design, development and evaluation of citizen science projects and their user-friendly applications. Through a careful selection of case studies in the urban and non-urban contexts of the Global North and South, the chapters provide insights into the design and interaction barriers, as well as on the lessons learned from the engagement of a diverse set of participants; for example, literate and non-literate people with a range of technical skills, and with different cultural backgrounds. Looking at the field through the lenses of specific case studies, the book captures the current state of the art in research and development of geographic citizen science and provides critical insight to inform technological innovation and future research in this area
Geographic Citizen Science Design: No one left behind
Little did Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and other âgentlemen scientistsâ know, when they were making their scientific discoveries, that some centuries later they would inspire a new field of scientific practice and innovation, called citizen science. The current growth and availability of citizen science projects and relevant applications to support citizen involvement is massive; every citizen has an opportunity to become a scientist and contribute to a scientific discipline, without having any professional qualifications. With geographic interfaces being the common approach to support collection, analysis and dissemination of data contributed by participants, âgeographic citizen scienceâ is being approached from different angles. Geographic Citizen Science Design takes an anthropological and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) stance to provide the theoretical and methodological foundations to support the design, development and evaluation of citizen science projects and their user-friendly applications. Through a careful selection of case studies in the urban and non-urban contexts of the Global North and South, the chapters provide insights into the design and interaction barriers, as well as on the lessons learned from the engagement of a diverse set of participants; for example, literate and non-literate people with a range of technical skills, and with different cultural backgrounds. Looking at the field through the lenses of specific case studies, the book captures the current state of the art in research and development of geographic citizen science and provides critical insight to inform technological innovation and future research in this area
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