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Adding Voices to Support Web Navigation Among a Low Digital Literacy Group

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Aakash Gautam,

Deborah Tatar,

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DIS '19 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion

Pages 165 - 169

https://doi.org/10.1145/3301019.3323884

Published: 18 June 2019 Publication History

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This paper presents our initial experiences introducing and refining a voice-annotated web application to a group of people who have limited experience with technology. We conducted a two-week training program for a group of sex-trafficking survivors in Nepal to help them sell their handicrafts on an online marketplace. We incorporate voices in two senses: by providing naturalistic, extended voice annotation with colloquial phrasing and intonation and by using the survivors' words and images in the interface. The colloquial phrases helped in use and we saw the survivors adopting the phrases to explain the system. We contemplate design approaches to make web applications accessible to people with limited digital fluency.

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Adding Voices to Support Web Navigation Among a Low Digital Literacy Group
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
      1. User studies
    2. Interaction techniques
      1. Auditory feedback
  2. Interaction design
    1. Empirical studies in interaction design

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June 2019

410 pages

ISBN:9781450362702

DOI:10.1145/3301019

General Chairs:
Steve Harrison
Virginia Tech, USA
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Shaowen Bardzell
Indiana University, USA
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Simon Fraser University, Canada
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Deborah Tatar
Virginia Tech, USA

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Tseng EFreed DEngel KRistenpart TDell NKitamura YQuigley AIsbister KIgarashi TBjørn PDrucker S(2021)A Digital Safety Dilemma: Analysis of Computer-Mediated Computer Security Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence During COVID-19Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3411764.3445589(1-17)Online publication date: 6-May-2021
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