"Narrowcast yourself"
Matt Jones, Will Harwood, David Bainbridge, George Robert Buchanan, David Mark Frohlich, Dorothy Rachovides, Maxine Frank, Mounia Lalmas · 2008
The StoryBank project is examining technologies and practices to allow digitally impoverished communities to take part in the user-generated content revolution. The approach involves combining mobile phones to create audio-visual stories and a touch screen display situated in a community meeting place. This paper discusses the design, evaluation and refinement of the situated display. We consider how our experiences of working with a rural Indian village community influenced design processes, principles and prototypes. The work highlights the value of community-centred design practices and prototypes in such developing-world contexts.