Towards preserving indigenous oral stories using tangible objects

Proceedings - 2011 2nd International Conference on Culture and Computing, Culture and Computing 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 86-91

  Smith, Andrew ^a   Reitsma, Lizette ^b   Van Den Hoven, Elise ^b   Kotzé, Paula ^a,c   Coetzee, Louis ^a  

^a CSIR MERAKA INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

culture preservation; storytelling; tangible object

Indexed keywords

CO-LOCATED; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; MODERN TECHNOLOGIES; ORAL COMMUNICATION; PHYSICAL OBJECTS; SOUTH AFRICA; STORYTELLING; TANGIBLE OBJECTS;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84862970695     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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