The digital divide describes the fact that the world can be divided into people who do and people who don't have access to - and the capability to use - modern information technology. E-inclusion is a social movement whose goal is to end this divide.The biggest hinderance for people who fail to utilize technology despite availability is the lack of literacy and the inconsistency that digital interfaces have with the socio-environment of the user. This research attempts to study the importance of ethnography and awareness of the context in which an illiterate or disabled individual responds to digital interfaces. The papers involved in this study range from current research in introducing technology in developing countries to the developement of context-aware tools that facilitate cognition and learning of new technology. The focus of this study it to understand existing approaches and discover opportunities where distributed cognition can be employed to facilite future research.
List of Papers
Pawar, U. S., Pal, J. (accepted, 2006). Multiple mice for computers in education in developing countries, IEEE/ACM Int’l Conf. on Information & Communication Technologies for Development, 2006.
Rangaswamy, N. and K. Toyama. (2005) Sociology of ICTs: the Myth of the Hybernating Village. HCI International 2005 (Las Vegas), July 2005.
Lieberman, H. and Selker, T. (2000). Out of context: Computer systems that adapt to, and learn from, context. IBM Systems Journal Vol. 39, Nos. 3 & 4, pp. 617-632.
Adams, R., Langdon, P. and Clarkson, P.J. (2002). A systematic basis for developing cognitive assessment methods for assistive technology. In -Keates, S., Langdon, P., Clarkson, P.J. and Robinson, P. (Eds.). 52-62. London: Springer Verlag.
Giovanni Moura de Holanda,Juliano Castilho Dall'Antonia (2006), An Approach for e-inclusion:Bringing illiterates and disabled people into play. Journal of Technology Management and Innovation
Gerhard Fischer, Ernesto Arias, Stefan Carmien, Hal Eden,Andrew Gorman, Shin’ichi Konomi, James Sullivan.(2004)Supporting Collaboration and Distributed Cognition in Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments. HCI Consortium "Computing Off the Desktop"
Medhi, I., Sagar, A. and Toyama K. (2006) Text-Free User Interfaces for Illiterate and Semi-Literate Users. International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (Berkeley, USA), May 2006
List of Papers
Pawar, U. S., Pal, J. (accepted, 2006). Multiple mice for computers in education in developing countries, IEEE/ACM Int’l Conf. on Information & Communication Technologies for Development, 2006.
Rangaswamy, N. and K. Toyama. (2005) Sociology of ICTs: the Myth of the Hybernating Village. HCI International 2005 (Las Vegas), July 2005.
Lieberman, H. and Selker, T. (2000). Out of context: Computer systems that adapt to, and learn from, context. IBM Systems Journal Vol. 39, Nos. 3 & 4, pp. 617-632.
Adams, R., Langdon, P. and Clarkson, P.J. (2002). A systematic basis for developing cognitive assessment methods for assistive technology. In -Keates, S., Langdon, P., Clarkson, P.J. and Robinson, P. (Eds.). 52-62. London: Springer Verlag.
Giovanni Moura de Holanda,Juliano Castilho Dall'Antonia (2006), An Approach for e-inclusion:Bringing illiterates and disabled people into play. Journal of Technology Management and Innovation
Gerhard Fischer, Ernesto Arias, Stefan Carmien, Hal Eden,Andrew Gorman, Shin’ichi Konomi, James Sullivan.(2004)Supporting Collaboration and Distributed Cognition in Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments. HCI Consortium "Computing Off the Desktop"
Medhi, I., Sagar, A. and Toyama K. (2006) Text-Free User Interfaces for Illiterate and Semi-Literate Users. International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (Berkeley, USA), May 2006
