Avaaj Otalo - A field study of an interactive voice forum for small farmers in rural India

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 733-742

  Patel, Neil ^a   Chittamuru, Deepti ^b   Jain, Anupam ^c   Dave, Paresh ^d   Parikh, Tapan S ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UC Berkeley School of Information   (United States)

^c IBM INDIA RESEARCH LAB   (India)

^d Development Support Center   (India)

Author keywords

ictd; india; ivr; voice forum; voice user interface

Indexed keywords

FIELD STUDIES; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; RURAL COMMUNITY; SMALL SCALE FARMERS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL SPACES; USAGE DATA; VOICE APPLICATIONS; VOICE USER INTERFACE;

AGRICULTURE; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 77953970245     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753434     Document Type: Conference Paper

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