IUI4DR

Sheetal K Agarwal, Nitendra Rajput, John Canny, Apala Lahiri Chavan
2008 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces - IUI '08  
Information Technology has had significant impact on the society and has touched all aspects of our lives. So far, computers and expensive devices have fueled this growth. The challenge now is to take this success of IT to its next level where IT services can be accessed by masses. "Masses" here mean the people who (a) are not yet IT literate and/or (b) do not have the purchase power to use the current IT delivery mechanisms (PC centric model) and/or (c) do not find current IT solutions and
more » ... ices relevant to their life or business. Interestingly, a huge portion of the world's population falls in this category. To enable the IT access to such masses, this workshop focuses on easy-touse and affordable, yet powerful, user interfaces that can be used by this population. ABSTRACT In this paper we take further the experimental work on the use of multiple-input devices for developing regions and describe the process involved in creating a ready-to-deploy multimedia CD for English, as a second language, in vernacular-language-medium Indian schools. We briefly explore three areas herefirst, we discuss the choice of learning English as a second language for our test application, and the pedagogical process used in designing the multimedia content. Second, we describe the various interaction designs for multiple-input modalities that we have employed, and discuss the motivations behind each, as well as the outcomes in preliminary trials. Finally, we lay out the practical challenges in both design and deployment of a real-world implementation of such a system.
doi:10.1145/1378773.1378857 dblp:conf/iui/AgarwalRCC08 fatcat:3pzai6qwjvbsblzwcrar54ljre