Research Through Design: Exploring Distributed Communication Between Users in Developed and Developing Countries
Start Date: 08/25/2010
End Date: 08/24/2011
The project studies how infrastructural and cultural differences affect communication, economic exchanges, and connectedness between African immigrants and individuals in their countries of origin. This is investigated by developing and evaluating novel computational systems to support these new forms of interconnectedness. This research contributes to the development of a design intervention targeted at African immigrants, design principles that informs interactive system design for this growing and understudied population and producing a case study documenting how to integrate design thinking into a human-computer interaction course.
Grant Institution: CRA
Amount: $140,000
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