Situating asynchronous voice in rural Africa

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8119 LNCS, Issue PART 3, 2013, Pages 36-53

  Bidwell, Nicola J ^a,b   Siya, Masbulele Jay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^c Mankosi AA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Asynchronous voice; Oral users; Rural Africa; Social media

Indexed keywords

BODILY MOVEMENT; CELL PHONE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; LOW-COST PHONES; ORAL USERS; RURAL AFRICA; SENSEMAKING; SOCIAL MEDIA;

DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; RURAL AREAS; TELEPHONE SETS;

TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84883294921     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40477-1_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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