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A Noticeboard in "Both Worlds" Unsurprising Interfaces Supporting Easy Bi-Cultural Content Publication

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Alessandro Soro,

Anita Lee Hong,

Margot BreretonAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 2181 - 2186

https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2732713

Published: 18 April 2015 Publication History

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We describe the design of a digital noticeboard to support communication within a remote Aboriginal community whose aspiration is to live in "both worlds", nurturing and extending their Aboriginal culture and actively participating in Western society and economy. Three bi-cultural aspects have emerged and are presented here: the need for a bi-lingual noticeboard to span both oral and written language traditions; the tension between perfunctory information exchange and social, embodied protocols of telling in person and the different ways in which time is represented in both cultures. The design approach, developed iteratively through consultation, demonstration and testing led to an "unsurprising interface" aimed at maximizing use and appropriation across cultures by unifying visual, text and spoken contents in both passive and interactive displays in a modeless manner.

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