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Namibian and American cultural orientations toward facebook

Author: Peters, AN ; Oren, MA ; Bidwell, NJ Date: May 2012 Nadkarni and Hofman’s meta-review of literature on Facebook usage recommends examining differences in Facebook use between collectivistic and individualistic cultures. We discuss early findings of an exploratory study to compare use between ... Read more
New visualization approach to re-contextualize indigenous knowledge in rural Africa

Author: Rodil, K ; Winschiers-Theophilus, H ; Bidwell, NJ ; Eskildsen, S ; Rehm, M ; Koch Kapuire, G Date: Sep 2011 Current views of sustainable development recognize the importance of accepting the Indigenous Knowledge (IK) of rural people. However, there is an increasing technological gap between elder IK holders and the younger generation and a persistent ... Read more
Please call ME.N.U.4EVER: Designing for‘Callback’ in Rural Africa

Author: Bidwell, NJ ; Lalmas, M ; Marsden, G ; Dlutu, B ; Ntlangano, S ; Manjingolo, A ; Tucker, WD ; Jones, M ; Robinson, S ; Vartiainen, E Date: Jul 2011 Designers and developers are naïve about the ways impoverished people in rural Africa innovate new uses of mobile technology to circumvent access difficulties. Here, we report on the local appropriation of an USSD ‘Callback’ service in a rural ... Read more
Pushing personhood into place: situating media in rural knowledge in Africa

Author: Bidwell, NJ ; Winschiers-Theophilus, H ; Kapuire, GK ; Rehm, M Date: Sep 2011 Designing interactions with technologies that are compatible with rural wisdom and skills can help to digitally enfranchise rural people and, thus, contribute to community cohesion in the face of Africa’s urbanization. Oral information has ... Read more
Revolution in ICT, the last hope for African rural communities' technology appropriation

Author: Kapuire, GK ; Winschiers-Theophilus, H ; Chivuno-Kurio, S ; Bidwell, NJ ; Blake, E Date: Nov 2010 In this paper the authors present a methodological perspective on the challenge of designing products suited to rural practices and conceptualizations in Southern Africa. To create a framework compatible with rural customs of information ... Read more
Situated interactions between audiovisual media and African herbal lore

Author: Bidwell, NJ ; Winschiers-Theophilus, H ; Koch-Kapuire, G ; Chivuno-Kuria, S Date: 2011 The authors describe a rural African community’s interactions in recording and interpreting video on herb lore in our endeavours to design digital systems that extend sharing knowledge in a system of traditional medicine (TM). Designing for ... Read more
Situating asynchronous voice in rural Africa

Author: Bidwell, NJ ; Siya, MJ Date: Sep 2013 Designing for oral users in economically poor places has intensified efforts to develop platforms for asynchronous voice. Often these aim to assist users in rural areas where literacy is lowest, but there are few empirical studies and design ... Read more
Situating digital storytelling within African communities

Author: Reitmaier, T ; Bidwell, NJ ; Marsdena, G Date: Sep 2011 The authors reflect on the methods, activities and perspectives we used to situate digital storytelling in two rural African communities in South Africa and Kenya. They demonstrate how in-depth ethnography in a village in the Eastern Cape of ... Read more
Timely relations in rural Africa

Author: Bidwell, NJ ; Reitmaier, T ; Rey-Moreno, C ; Roro, Z ; Siya, MJ ; Dlutu, B Date: Jul 2013 Time is a key aspect of cross-cultural ICT4D research and practice, but rarely the focus of discussion. In this paper we, a group of researchers with diverse backgrounds and residences, aim to open up a dialogue about how different ... Read more
Toward an Afro-Centric indigenous HCI paradigm

Author: Winschiers-Theophilus, H ; Bidwell, NJ Date: Mar 2013 Current human–computer interaction (HCI) paradigms are deeply rooted in a Western epistemology that attests its partiality and bias of its embedded assumptions, values, definitions, techniques, and derived frameworks and models. Thus tensions ... Read more
Walking and the social life of solar charging in rural Africa

Author: Bidwell, NJ ; Siya, M ; Marsden, G ; Tucker, WD ; Tshemese, M ; Gaven, N ; Ntlangano, S ; Robinson, S ; Eglington, KA Date: Sep 2013 The authors consider practices that sustain social and physical environments beyond those dominating sustainable HCI discourse. They describe links between walking, sociality, and using resources in a case study of community-based, solar, ... Read more

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