Paper Info
Title
Suhrid: A Collaborative Mobile Phone Interface for Low Literate People.
Abstract
The design of accessible mobile phone interfaces for low literate people usually assumes an individual model of use, and are often limited by the low technical expertise and/or cognitive ability of users in marginal communities of developing countries. Drawing on previous ICTD scholarship around shared and intermediated use of technology and our own ethnographic field study, we introduce a collaborative model of use in the design of Suhrid, a mobile phone interface that helps low literate users perform common phone tasks by receiving remote help from higher-literacy members of their community. The results of our six week long deployment of Suhrid among 10 low literate rickshaw pullers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, indicate the potential of collaborative use models to help low-literate people more effectively use mobile phones while strengthening bonds between them and the people in their community who provide help.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2830629.2830640
ACM DEV
Field
DocType
Citations 
Internet privacy,Software deployment,Scholarship,Gift economy,Biology,Collaborative model,Developing country,Phone,Mobile phone,Genetics
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
22
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed117118.71
Maruf Zaber271.61
Mehrab Bin Morshed350.78
Md. Habibullah Bin Ismail450.78
Dan Cosley53239260.74
Steven J. Jackson638027.24