Abstractions for designing and evaluating communication bridges for people in developing regions

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tucker, William D ^a   Blake, Edwin H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Design and evaluation of applications; Information and communication technology for development; Participatory methods and user centred design; User interfaces and accessibility for low literacy populations

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING REGIONS; END-USERS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INTERCONNECT STACKS; PARTICIPATORY METHODS; PRACTICAL GUIDELINES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERS; TECHNICAL FACTORS;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DESIGN; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; OPEN SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; USER INTERFACES;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 79952358030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1926180.1926190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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