A resource kit for participatory socio-technical design in rural Kenya

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2709-2714

  Walker, Kevin ^a   Underwood, Joshua ^a   Waema, Tim Mwolo ^b   Dunckley, Lynne ^c   Abdelnour Nocera, José ^c   Luckin, Rosemary ^a   Oyugi, Cecilia ^c   Camara, Souleymane ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Culture; Development; Mobile; Usability

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; DEVELOPMENT; INTERACTION DESIGNS; MENTAL MODELS; MOBILE; PARTICIPATORY DESIGNS; RURAL LIVELIHOODS; TECHNICAL DESIGNS; USABILITY;

DESIGN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 57049130469     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1358628.1358749     Document Type: Conference Paper

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