Evaluation of IVR data collection uis for untrained rural users

Proceedings of the 1st ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, DEV 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lerer, Adam ^a   Ward, Molly ^b   Amarasinghe, Saman ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Project WET Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION; DESIGN RECOMMENDATIONS; DEVELOPING WORLD; HYBRID INTERFACE; INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE; INTERFACE DESIGNS; MOBILE-PHONE USERS; REAL-WORLD; SPECIALIZED SOFTWARE; TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS; UI DESIGNS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; DESIGN; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SURVEYS; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 79952337660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1926180.1926183     Document Type: Conference Paper

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