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Designing Collaborative Data Collection Interfaces for Low-literate Users

Skarlatidou, A; Trimm, C; Vitos, M; Haklay, M; (2019) Designing Collaborative Data Collection Interfaces for Low-literate Users. In: Proceedings of 17th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET): Salzburg, Austria. Green open access

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Abstract

Data collection applications on smartphone devices support indigenous communities in developing countries to record and preserve traditional ecological knowledge, collaboratively collect data around issues that are important to them and use these tools to subsequently identify locally-acceptable solutions with global impacts. Development of these interfaces needs to consider users’ familiarity with technology as well as their education and literacy levels. This study builds on existing HCI4D research, which is also of interest to the CSCW community, in order to develop and evaluate, for their usability and user preferences, four user interfaces with low-literate people in the UK. Our findings suggest that linear navigation structures and a tangible interface are almost equally usable and preferred when they require minimum interaction with the device. Our preliminary analysis provides a deeper insight into the design issues to inform development of smartphone-based interfaces using various interaction types and we report on our methodological challenges from carrying out HCI research with low-literate people in the UK. The findings of this paper are used to inform the experimental design of additional work that we carry out with low-literate users in Namibia.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Designing Collaborative Data Collection Interfaces for Low-literate Users
Event: 17th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Location: Salzburg
Dates: 10 June 2019 - 12 June 2019
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.18420/ecscw2019_ep02
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.18420/ecscw2019_ep02
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10078615
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