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Frohlich, David M., Rachovides, Dorothy, Riga, Kiriaki, Bhat, Ramnath, Frank, Maxine, Edirisinghe, Eran, Wickramanayaka, Dhammike, Jones, Matt and Harwood, Will (2009): StoryBank: mobile digital storytelling in a development context. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2009. pp. 1761-1770. Available online

“Mobile imaging and digital storytelling currently support a growing practice of multimedia communication in the West. In this paper we describe a project which explores their benefit in the East, to support non-textual information sharing in an Indian village. Local audiovisual story creation and sharing activities were carried out in a one month trial, using 10 customized cameraphones and a digital library of stories represented on a village display. The findings show that the system was usable by a cross-section of the community and valued for its ability to express a mixture of development and community information in an accessible form. Lessons for the role of HCI in this context are also discussed.”

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Frohlich, David M., Bhat, Ramnath, Jones, Matt, Lalmas, Mounia, Frank, Maxine, Rachovides, Dorothy, Tucker, Roger C. F. and Riga, Kiriaki (2009): Democracy, Design, and Development in Community Content Creation: Lessons From the StoryBank Project. In Information Technologies & International Development, 5 (4) pp. 19-36

“Mobile and Web 2.0 technology have the very real potential to democratize the creation and sharing of multimedia content in developing communities, even beyond the levels currently seen in community radio and television. In this article, we report the findings of an exercise to test this potential in partnership with a Budikote village in southern India. We show how a system called StoryBank supported the creation of short digital stories on a text-free camera phone, and how these stories could be shared through a community repository and touch-screen display. Despite the success of a field trial in which 137 stories were created and shared over a one-month period, various technical and social factors meant that the devices and content were more hierarchically managed and controlled than expected. The implications of these experiences for rural development and community-centered design are discussed.”

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Jones, Matt, Harwood, William, Buchanan, George, Frohlich, David, Rachovides, Dorothy, Lalmas, Mounia and Frank, Maxine (2008): Narrowcast yourself: Designing for Community Storytelling in a Rural Indian Context. In: Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems 25-27 February, 2008, Cape Town. pp. 369-378.

“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.”

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Jones, Matt, Harwood, Will, Bainbridge, David, Buchanan, George, Frohlich, David, Rachovides, Dorothy, Frank, Maxine and Lalmas, Mounia (2008): "Narrowcast yourself": designing for community storytelling in a rural Indian context. In: Proceedings of DIS08 Designing Interactive Systems 2008. pp. 369-378. Available online

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Rachovides, Dorothy, Frohlich, David M. and Frank, Maxine (2007): Interaction Design in the Wild. In: Proceedings of the HCI07 Conference on People and Computers XXI 2007. p. 23. Available online

“The StoryBank project in the UK is exploring the application of digital storytelling technology to information sharing in the developing world. A multidisciplinary team of interaction designers, ethnographers and computer scientists are adopting a user-centered approach to the design of a system which should be useful to a specific rural community in South India. This paper discusses some of the challenges that the interaction designers met and how these shaped the design process.”

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Lalmas, Mounia, Bhat, Ramnath, Frank, Maxine, Frohlich, David M. and Jones, Matt (2007): Bridging the digital divide: understanding information access practices in an indian village community. In: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2007. pp. 741-742. Available online

“For digital library and information retrieval technologies to provide solutions for bridging the digital divide in developing countries, we need to understand the information access practices of remote and often poor communities in these countries. We must understand the information needs of these communities, and the best means to provide them access to relevant information. To this end, we investigated the current information access practices in an Indian village.”

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Publication period:2007-2009
Publication count:6
Number of co-authors:14

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Maxine Frank's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Matt Jones:46
David Bainbridge:32
George Buchanan:27

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David M. Frohlich:4

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