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Designing Ummeli a case for mediated design, a participatory approach to designing interactive systems for semi-literate users
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| author | Gitau, Silvian Wanjiku |
| author2 | Marsden, Gary |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/6399 Designing Ummeli a case for mediated design, a participatory approach to designing interactive systems for semi-literate users Gitau, Silvian Wanjiku Marsden, Gary Donner, Jonathan Computer Science Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references. This dissertation documents a journey into the design of Ummeli with a community of semi‐literate job seekers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town whose primary access to the internet was through their mobile phones. Working closely with this community over many months, we developed Ummeli, a suite of tools that allow the user to build their CVs; browse and apply for employment and training opportunities; recommend and post jobs; get employment tips and connect to other job seekers. To design Ummeli, Ethnographic Action Research (EAR) was embraced, not as a methodology, but as a research approach, a foundation from which to incorporate participatory approaches to designing Information communication technologies for development (ICT4D). User Centred Design (UCD) was incorporated as a design approach. Ummeli was built by a combination of insights drawn from a lived-in experience, and employing UCD informed mtheods of participatory design (PD). 2014-08-13T19:29:03Z 2014-08-13T19:29:03Z 2013 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6399 eng application/pdf Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Computer Science Gitau, Silvian Wanjiku Designing Ummeli a case for mediated design, a participatory approach to designing interactive systems for semi-literate users |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| title | Designing Ummeli a case for mediated design, a participatory approach to designing interactive systems for semi-literate users |
| title_full | Designing Ummeli a case for mediated design, a participatory approach to designing interactive systems for semi-literate users |
| title_fullStr | Designing Ummeli a case for mediated design, a participatory approach to designing interactive systems for semi-literate users |
| title_full_unstemmed | Designing Ummeli a case for mediated design, a participatory approach to designing interactive systems for semi-literate users |
| title_short | Designing Ummeli a case for mediated design, a participatory approach to designing interactive systems for semi-literate users |
| title_sort | designing ummeli a case for mediated design a participatory approach to designing interactive systems for semi literate users |
| topic | Computer Science |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6399 |
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