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Bridging worlds: indigenous knowledge in the digital world

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The digitalisation of Indigenous knowledge has been challenging considering epistemological differences and the lack of involvement of indigenous people. Drawing from our community projects in Namibia we share approaches of co-designing technologies and digital presentations of indigenous knowledge.

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Mbinge UStanley CKandjabanga IMuashekele CKoruhama KKapuire GMaasz DWinschiers-Theophilus H(2025)Co-creating digital representations of indigenous knowledge: an ovaHimba curated digital repositoryInternational Journal on Digital Libraries10.1007/s00799-025-00418-826:1Online publication date: 28-Feb-2025
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-025-00418-8
Johansen FJørgensen MKjeldsen TMagot SKandjengo SIsaacs JAuala SKays RArendttorp EWinschiers-Theophilus HRodil K(2023)Lets dance /Hi//Ka//Kusi with non-player character Ju/'Hoansi women in Virtual RealityProceedings of the 4th African Human Computer Interaction Conference10.1145/3628096.3629061(241-245)Online publication date: 27-Nov-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3628096.3629061
Paananen SKim JKirjavainen EKalving MMitra KHäkkilä J(2023)Augmenting Indigenous Sámi Exhibition - Interactive Digital Heritage in Museum ContextHuman-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 202310.1007/978-3-031-42283-6_32(597-617)Online publication date: 28-Aug-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-42283-6_32

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Bridging worlds: indigenous knowledge in the digital world
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Empirical studies in HCI

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June 2022

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DOI:10.1145/3529372

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National Institute of Informatics, Japan
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TH Köln (University of Applied Sciences), Germany

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Mbinge UStanley CKandjabanga IMuashekele CKoruhama KKapuire GMaasz DWinschiers-Theophilus H(2025)Co-creating digital representations of indigenous knowledge: an ovaHimba curated digital repositoryInternational Journal on Digital Libraries10.1007/s00799-025-00418-826:1Online publication date: 28-Feb-2025
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-025-00418-8
Johansen FJørgensen MKjeldsen TMagot SKandjengo SIsaacs JAuala SKays RArendttorp EWinschiers-Theophilus HRodil K(2023)Lets dance /Hi//Ka//Kusi with non-player character Ju/'Hoansi women in Virtual RealityProceedings of the 4th African Human Computer Interaction Conference10.1145/3628096.3629061(241-245)Online publication date: 27-Nov-2023
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Paananen SKim JKirjavainen EKalving MMitra KHäkkilä J(2023)Augmenting Indigenous Sámi Exhibition - Interactive Digital Heritage in Museum ContextHuman-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 202310.1007/978-3-031-42283-6_32(597-617)Online publication date: 28-Aug-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-42283-6_32

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