Dienstag, 26. Mai 2009

Designing Mobile Technology for Emerging Markets

MobilGlyph: Making Data Tangible from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.

In rural India, being able to store a number in contacts and then call that contact is a primary mechanism for overcoming traditional infrastructure challenges, like learning the prices of goods at market. However, currently, most mobile phones available to people in rural areas of India, have a text driven interface, making it near impossible for illiterate users to obtain and store contacts. Solving the "save a contact" problem for illiterate users became one of the focuses for our project. To show how data could be made tangible, and how illiterate users could easily share contact information, we created a concept called MobilGlyph.
Find the hole adaptivepath project here.

(via/more: adaptive path - mobile literacy)

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