Designing human centred technologies for the developing world: HCI but not as we know it

ICT could be a powerful tool for development, but how appropriate are developed-world HCI methods? Should we ‘parachute in’ foreign methods, do we have more to learn than to teach?

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Rose Luckin

Lynne Dunckley

Andrew M. Dearden

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Publication date: September 2007

Publication date (Print): September 2007

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2007.96

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Conference name: Proceedings of HCI 2007 The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference University of Lancaster, UK

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 21

Conference location: Lancaster, UK

Conference date: 3 - 7 September 2007

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: British HCI Group Annual Conference

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Designing human centred technologies for the developing world: HCI but not as we know it

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