An insider perspective on community gains: A subjective account of a Namibian rural communities׳ perception of a long-term participatory design project

Kapuire, Gereon Koch; Winschiers‐Theophilus, Heike; Blake, Edwin

doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2014.10.004

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“…The attention towards accessibility is not exhausted with offering content in the language of community members, but it should also pre-explore cross-cultural meaning attributed to visual content such as images and icons as well as the way in which participants approach and consume information held in a digital environment. A possible solution to mitigate cultural distance in the adoption of technology could be the inclusion of participants in the design process [31], and indeed this resonates with previous research on ICT4D [41,75].…”

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Bridging cultural heritage and communities through digital technologies

Giglitto

Ciolfi

Claisse

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities &Amp; Technologies - Transforming Communities

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Bridging cultural heritage and communities through digital technologies: Understanding perspectives and challenges GIGLITTO, Danilo, CIOLFI, Luigina , CLAISSE, Caroline and LOCKLEY, Eleanor Available from Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive (SHURA) at:ABSTRACT We present and discuss the results of a qualitative study aimed at identifying what role interactive digital technologies could play in facilitating the participation of communities at risk of exclusion (particularly migrants and refugees) in cultural and heritage-related activities. Culture and heritage are known to be key factors in fostering social inclusion, and this has the potential for contributing to both the wellbeing of these communities and to cultural institutions themselves. Through surveys and interviews with two cohorts of participants (cultural heritage professionals and community facilitators), we gathered insights about their perspectives on how ICT tools could support their work with and for communities, as well as the challenges they face. This work sheds light on the opportunities and barriers surrounding the use of digital technologies for participation in the cultural heritage sector, which is timely due to the increasing focus on grassroots and community-led heritage initiatives and to the growing body of work on participatory ICT in disciplines such as human-computer interaction and community informatics.

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confidence: 65%

Bridging cultural heritage and communities through digital technologies

Giglitto

Ciolfi

Claisse

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities &Amp; Technologies - Transforming Communities

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“…In this direction, some recent ICTD projects have embodied an explicit focus on social change through resisting forms of oppression, such as sexism, classism, racism, and ableism (e.g., [102,112,70]). Irani et al affirm that "all design research and practice is culturally located and power laden" and argue for a more explicitly political engagement with social issues like poverty because apolitical stances often occlude "the sometimes highly political causes of poverty" [66].…”

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Social Justice-Oriented Interaction Design

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Harmon

Fox

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

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“…Erindiroukambe is a village about 400 kilometres from the capital city Windhoek. It is a typical Herero village with 18 homesteads and a total of 200 dwellers amid elders, toddlers and few unemployed youth residing in the village permanently [19]. Four local male elders and one male youngster met outside the local researcher's homestead.…”

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“…Four local male elders and one male youngster met outside the local researcher's homestead. All but one elder are co-designers of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) technologies for 7 years now as part of a long-term project [19]. Thus they have participated in multiple co-design sessions along the process.…”

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A hermeneutic inquiry into user-created personas in different Namibian locales

Cabrero

Winschiers‐Theophilus

Abdelnour-Nocera

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference: Full Papers - Volume 1

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Persona is a tool broadly used in technology design to support communicational interactions between designers and users. Different Persona types and methods have evolved mostly in the Global North, and been partially deployed in the Global South every so often in its original User-Centred Design methodology. We postulate persona conceptualizations are expected to differ across cultures. We demonstrate this with an exploratory-case study on user-created persona co-designed with four Namibian ethnic groups: ovaHerero, Ovambo, ovaHimba and Khoisan. We follow a hermeneutic inquiry approach to discern cultural nuances from diverse human conducts. Findings reveal diverse self-representations whereby for each ethnic group results emerge in unalike fashions, viewpoints, recounts and storylines. This paper ultimately argues User-Created Persona as a potentially valid approach for pursuing cross-cultural depictions of personas that communicate cultural features and user experiences paramount to designing acceptable and gratifying technologies in dissimilar locales.

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An insider perspective on community gains: A subjective account of a Namibian rural communities׳ perception of a long-term participatory design project

Cited by 52 publications

References 30 publications

Bridging cultural heritage and communities through digital technologies

Bridging cultural heritage and communities through digital technologies

Social Justice-Oriented Interaction Design

A hermeneutic inquiry into user-created personas in different Namibian locales

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