WATER Alert!: Using mobile phones to improve community perspective on drinking water quality in South Africa

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 230-240

  Brown, Deana ^a   Marsden, Gary ^b   Rivett, Ulrike ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

HCI; ICTD; Low literate user interfaces; Mobile phones; South Africa; User centered design; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT; ICTD; OFFICIAL LANGUAGES; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; PROTOTYPE MOBILE PHONES; REPORTING SYSTEMS; SOUTH AFRICA; USER CENTERED DESIGNS; WATER QUALITY INFORMATION;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; USER INTERFACES; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84859020463     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2160673.2160703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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