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StoryBank: mobile digital storytelling in a development context

Authors:

David M. Frohlich,

Dorothy Rachovides,

Eran Edirisinghe,

Dhammike Wickramanayaka,

Will HarwoodAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '09: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1761 - 1770

https://doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518972

Published: 04 April 2009 Publication History

Abstract

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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