Tangaza: Frugal group messaging through speech and text

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Odero, Billy ^a   Omwenga, Brian ^a   Masita Mwangi, Mokeira ^a   Githinji, Pauline ^a   Ledlie, Jonathan ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Speech interfaces; Usability testing and evaluation; User interface design

Indexed keywords

DESIGN DECISIONS; DEVELOPING REGIONS; MESSAGING SYSTEM; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL GROUPS; SPEECH INTERFACE; USABILITY TESTING AND EVALUATION; USER INTERFACE DESIGN; VIRTUAL GROUP;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; DESIGN; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE PHONES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS; USER INTERFACES;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 79952347748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1926180.1926182     Document Type: Conference Paper

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