CS 260: Research Topics in HCI Matthew K. Chan
Designers are from Venus, Anthropologists are from Mars? ETHNOGRAPHY?
The role of design is to improve people’s lives. You cannot do this unless you know what their lives are like. WHY DO ETHNOGRAPHY?
1. People don’t know what they actually want 2.Context matters 3.People lie
What’s the worst that can happen? A PROCESS WITHOUT ETHNOGRAPHY?
MILLEE: Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies (MILLEE) Matthew Boon Tian Kam, Divya Lalitha Ramachandran and John F. Canny
Marthe Dansokho of Cameroon and Mohammed Diop of Mali said the project demonstrated misplaced priorities , stating that clean water and schools were more important for African women, who, he stated, would not have time to use the computers to research new crops to grow.
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