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Abstract | ||
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In developing countries, language and literacy are barriers that prevent many people from using simple applications like a phonebook on mobile phones. The traditional, alphabetical organization is not good enough for low-literate users who either do not know or have forgotten the alphabetical order of any script. We propose Rangoli, a phonebook that explores several ideas. It organizes contacts in nine colour 'pages'. On each page nine icons are displayed in that colour. A contact is associated with a colour and an icon. Any contact can be accessed by pressing only two buttons on the number-pad. The spatial location of each contact does not change even as the phonebook fills up. The limitation of 81 contacts is not a major problem for these users for now. Rangoli was first conceived during a class project and was improved through iterations of user study, design and evaluation. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2008 | 10.1145/1409240.1409264 | Mobile HCI |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
simple application,major problem,class project,visual phonebook,user study,mobile phone,alphabetical organization,good enough,low-literate user,spatial location,alphabetical order,literacy,digital divide | Literacy,Digital divide,Icon,Computer science,Multimedia,Alphabetical order | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
15 | 0.93 | 1 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anirudha Joshi | 1 | 179 | 26.46 |
| Nikhil Welankar | 2 | 15 | 0.93 |
| Naveen BL | 3 | 15 | 0.93 |
| Kirti Kanitkar | 4 | 15 | 0.93 |
| Riyaj Sheikh | 5 | 17 | 1.37 |